It’s that time of the year for us at Spatial Dev: gearing up towards the annual Ballard Seafood Fest! We are proud of the communities we live in and love helping local organizations leverage geospatial technologies. Every year we collaborate with Ballard Alliance to create the Seafood Fest’s interactive mapping...

The world’s automotive capital, Detroit, served as host to this year’s edition of SOTM.us. This was an appropriate venue given the ever expanding adoption of OSM by industry and keen interest in autonomous vehicle navigation. A continuing trend is increasing participation by the business ecology that has grown up around...

A series of workshops were conducted in Grenada to identify requirements for native mobile apps to help Caribbean Island communities better prepare for and recover from hazards and disasters with ecosystem-based adaptations. A team comprised of TNC and ARC representatives from across the Eastern Caribbean and US met with government...

SpatialDev has seen an exponential growth in our team members this last year. This new energy of talent and personalities has been a much-welcomed change. We thought we’d take the next few weeks to introduce the world to some of our newbies, starting with Cole Bessee. Cole started at Critigen...

A contingent of our team recently attended the 2018 State of The Map International Conference in Milan, Italy. Attendance covered the spectrum in the OSM community, from original die hard individual contributors to more recent corporate contributors – it was an interesting mix that came with a bit of tension...

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community sourced map of the world. It is free and open and is getting better and better every day. SpatialDev, Critigen’s Emerging Markets Team, has been working with OpenStreetMap data since our beginning and we are working with members of the OSM community to build tools...

The first ever Locate conference was one of those where I will be happy to claim, “I was there!“ It was one of the most forward looking geospatial conferences that I’ve ever attended and left several big impressions. The autonomous vehicle navigation market is hot hot hot. Tons of cool...

It’s that time of the year for us at Spatial Dev: gearing up towards the annual Ballard Seafood Fest! We are proud of the communities we live in and love helping local organizations leverage geospatial technologies. Every year we collaborate with Ballard Alliance to create the Seafood Fest’s interactive mapping...

Inspiration for interactive design comes from many different places. Whether it’s award-winning websites and online experiences or stepping away from the screen and observing art and design from our everyday lives, we are surrounded by constant user interaction and we find stunning experiences all around us. It seems fitting that...

Written by: Savannah Ostrowski This past weekend a few of us (Stephen, Daniel, and Savannah) mentored the MapHacks hackathon at the University of Washington, organized by the University’s Department of Geography and sponsored by Critigen. Photo credits: Utako Kase If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a hackathon, rest assured...