Geospatial use cases per industry
As I showed in "Developers and industries", there are developers in every industry. In this document I just want to list some GIS related use cases/applications per industry.
Note: I you want to find more go to 1000 GIS use cases.
Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC)
Education & Training
Energy & natural resources
Entertainment & Media Production
- Analyce Placement cameras for sport events, or to place sign letters (line of sigt)
Farming & life sciences
Financial services
Gaming
- Compilation of examples at GeoNight
- Oculus Rift – Building realistic 3D environments with Esri CityEngine because virtual reality is all about location and a sense of place. (Esri CityEngine and Oculus Rift)
- Building Virtual Environments – Designing future buildings, roads, cities, and parks with video game contributions. (GIS and Gaming – Matt Artz)
- Geoguessr – Embarking on an educational journey that takes you all over the world (Geoguessr)
- Mercator Projection Game – Learning about shape, size, and conformity of the Earth with map projections.
- Spatial Data Integration – Intersecting the gaming world with rich, real-world, spatial data integration.
- Planet Hunters – Finding undiscovered planets with crowdsource style online games. (Planet Hunters)
Government & public administration
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