Covering posts from 0800 ET April 11 to 0800 ET April 12. Sources: 152 geospatial feeds.
Quiet day across the feeds — here are the highlights.
A Sunday with three unique posts across 152 feeds. The industry is either at the weekend, outdoors, or saving its output for the week ahead.
1. Apple and Google Maps history — Spatialists
Spatialists curates Marcin Wichary's pointer to Justin O'Beirne's multi-part series tracing how Apple and Google Maps have evolved in style, content, and POI coverage over the years. The pieces are a few years old, but they remain among the most careful comparative analyses of how the two dominant consumer mapping platforms have competed aesthetically and informationally. If you work with web maps professionally and haven't read O'Beirne's work, this is the weekend to do it.
→ Apple and Google Maps history
2. Building a Geospatial Strategy for Water: Aligning People, Processes, and Technology for Success — ArcGIS Blog
An Esri blog post on building out GIS strategy for water utilities — framed around the classic triad of people, processes, and technology. No description surfaced in the feed, so what you see in the title is what you get: this is aimed at water utility GIS managers and digital transformation leads navigating Esri stack adoption. Standard corporate guidance content, but water infrastructure is one of the sectors where GIS remains practically irreplaceable, and the piece signals continued Esri investment in that vertical.
→ Building a Geospatial Strategy for Water
3. 5 steps to make pop-art using satellite imagery — Remote Sensing on Medium
A creative tutorial that walks through turning satellite imagery into Warhol-style pop-art. Light in substance but a useful reminder that the visual properties of remotely sensed imagery — false color, spectral band combinations, high contrast — make it unusually well-suited to artistic manipulation. A good share for introducing non-specialists to what satellite data actually looks like.
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