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Monday, March 16, 2015

The State of Geospatial as Revealed by Uber Buying deCarta

Earlier this month Uber, the well-known mobile-app-based transportation company acquired deCarta, a small independent mapping and spatial analysis software company.

The acquisition reveals several truisms about the state of our industry. I want to highlight them here because we as insiders may not see the business forest due to the technology trees.