What five women mapmakers think of the future of geospatial services

Angela Yu, Developer Relations Engineer, United States

What excites you most about the way forward for mapping or geospatial providers?

In my function in developer relations I’m at all times desirous about easy methods to make builders’ lives simpler – particularly breaking down the educational curve in order that extra individuals can create the experiences they think about even when they do not take into account themselves a “developer” or an “engineer”. I am excited that sooner or later, individuals may have the ability to construct the mapping and placement experiences they want with out coding. Think about telling a bot to “construct me an Android app for ranking dishes at eating places I go to so I can keep in mind what to order or keep away from subsequent time” and it mechanically manages Android OS location permissions and combines the Maps and Locations SDKs for Android with a Cloud Firestore and Firebase Authentication to avoid wasting my scores. Far more individuals will actually be empowered to utilize geospatial data to enhance lives.

What’s one implementation or use case you’d wish to see extra individuals undertake and why?

I would like to see extra individuals and governments mix open information with maps to visualise the state of their communities. At Google, we worth data-driven choice making. Seeing information visualized on a map could make it a lot simpler for cities and states to make choices and adjustments that convey our on a regular basis experiences in nearer alignment with our beliefs. Considered one of my favourite tutorials is a codelab that teaches you easy methods to export public datasets from BigQuery to a map utilizing the deck.gl visualization framework to make highly effective and exquisite maps that present, for instance, the distribution of motorbike rental stations or density of timber all through a metropolis

Anjusha Sandeep Nair, Principal Architect, Singapore

What excites you most about the way forward for mapping or geospatial providers?

This can be a very particular time for all of us as geospatial practitioners and spatial downside solvers. The continued growth of recent applied sciences, comparable to synthetic intelligence and machine studying coupled with cloud computing, is making it attainable to gather and analyze geospatial information extra simply and effectively. This helps ship improved shopper and enterprise experiences comparable to utilizing real-time geospatial data and providers to scale back price, enhance service high quality and improve operational effectivity. I might like to see a future world the place anybody can entry and use geospatial information to unlock new alternatives and make knowledgeable choices about their lives and communities.

How do you see mapping or geospatial providers altering buyer or enterprise experiences and operations within the close to and/or long run?

This can be a very particular time for all of us as geospatial practitioners and spatial downside solvers. The continued growth of recent applied sciences, comparable to synthetic intelligence and machine studying coupled with cloud computing, is making it attainable to gather and analyze geospatial information extra simply and effectively. This helps ship improved shopper and enterprise experiences comparable to utilizing real-time geospatial data and providers to scale back price, enhance service high quality and improve operational effectivity. I might like to see a future world the place anybody can entry and use geospatial information to unlock new alternatives and make knowledgeable choices about their lives and communities.

Marina Afonso, Companion Gross sales Supervisor, Brazil

What excites you most about the way forward for mapping or geospatial providers?

What excites me most is how we’ll join much more AI with geospatial data, to assist our clients succeed of their digital transformation. By offering real-time geospatial information and high-resolution mapping, these applied sciences can allow immersive and interactive experiences that blur the traces between the bodily and digital worlds. The potential to assist clear up complicated world challenges, comparable to local weather change, enhance catastrophe response, and deal with public well being challenges are numerous. Our merchandise will assist companies lower your expenses and make extra sustainable, dependable and quicker selections.

How do you see mapping or geospatial providers altering buyer or enterprise experiences and operations within the close to and/or long run? 

I imagine in an omnichannel technique. Companies can use geospatial providers to offer customers with personalised experiences that begin in digital channels and may be finalized in bodily places. This method has change into much more vital throughout/after the pandemic, as companies have needed to adapt to altering buyer behaviors and preferences. By leveraging geolocation intelligence, companies can optimize logistics and provide chain operations, enhance security and safety, and make higher choices based mostly on real-time information. This could result in elevated effectivity and productiveness, and enhanced buyer satisfaction with a greater expertise.

Ulrika Gunnari, Gross sales Supervisor, Sweden

What excites you most about the way forward for mapping or geospatial providers?

I’m most enthusiastic about all the present and future work round how maps and geospatial can allow each shoppers and companies to make extra sustainable selections. How can we journey or ship packages in a extra eco-friendly manner? How can a enterprise be certain they supply supplies in a sustainable method? To have the ability to reply these questions and help sustainability in lots of extra methods now and sooner or later is each a really thrilling and vital mission.

What’s one implementation or use case you’d wish to see extra individuals undertake and why?

We now have accomplished quite a lot of work recently to allow our builders to construct extra custom-made and immersive mapping experiences for his or her clients.  It could be superior to see extra implementations using for instance WebGL, 3D and AR to create much more participating buyer experiences for a lot of industries.

Madiha Chan, Engineering Director, United States 

What excites you most about the way forward for mapping or geospatial providers?

Making locations accessible for individuals the world over, no matter the place you might be, what chances are you’ll want and what language chances are you’ll select to make use of is tremendous thrilling to me. We’re powering mobility for everybody all world wide in an ever-dynamic atmosphere.

Should you might quick ahead 10 years, what can be the state of geospatial? What’s new, what’s completely different?

Ten years from right now, I imagine there will likely be no stress round touring and commuting. Each mode of transportation will have the ability to adapt to site visitors, street or information adjustments. Most significantly, society can have made important enhancements in the direction of constructing sustainable modes of transportation which are extra accessible to individuals in all places.