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Felt raised $4.5 million to get you to ‘think in maps’

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From vaccine distribution plans to fire trackers to bar crawls for your best friend’s birthday, maps help people visualize space and express impact. Felt is a collaborative software company that wants to make it easier for people to build maps on the internet. Felt allows users to build a map with data sets integrated into it.

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RapidDeploy raises $29M for a cloud-based dispatch platform aimed at 911 centers

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Its footprint includes state coverage in Arizona, California and Kansas. RapidSOS raises $85M for a big data platform aimed at emergency responders. “As we see it, the platform will evolve with customers’ needs. Tactical mapping ultimately is not big enough to cover this.

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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS

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For Allison Wolff, the 2018 wildfire season in California marked a turning point. Vibrant Planet offers access to a range of data sets, with the centerpiece being a lidar map of the state of California. Lidar is incredibly helpful when it comes to mapping forests in 3D and determining their fire risk, but it’s not a panacea.

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When wildfires rage close, Perimeter wants to tell you where to go

TechCrunch

Bailey Farren’s family has experienced this four times living in California north of San Francisco. The Camp Fire in California in 2018, the worst fire in California’s history , triggered her to go beyond interviewing public safety officers to building a solution. We do not want it to be a social-media platform,” she explained.

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The Fantastic Five GIS Tools for Nonprofits

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By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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The Top 4 Things You Missed at Dreamforce 2021

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And if you’d like to go back and watch — or rewatch — any sessions that you may have missed the first time around, they’re all available for you to catch on demand through our new streaming platform, Salesforce+. Mapping an End-to-End Student Journey with Education Cloud with Ivy Tech Community College.

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Saildrone takes the wraps off its Voyager autonomous research vessel

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The Voyager is a 33-foot uncrewed surface vehicle, or USV, intended for near-shore maritime operations like coastal and lake mapping. The data provided by autonomous platforms like Saildrone’s is useful for research purposes. It doesn’t just have to be a floating cop, though.

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