Geo-information company ESRI buys Polish start-up company Geoloqi, will launch iOS-side map Library

ESRI announced this week the acquisition of Geoloqi, a Polish geo-application start-up company. Geoloqi was founded in 2010 to provide APIs for mobile http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/11584.html "> Application developers, Makes it easy for developers to add geographic information to their own applications. Geoloqi a 350,000-dollar investment in seed-round funding in 2011.

Let's take a look at another protagonist today. ESRI,ESRI (American Institute of Environmental Systems), founded in 1969, is the world's largest geographic information system technology provider with more than 3,000 employees. At present, ESRI's customers are located all over the world, serving more than 300,000 organizations, their customers are also very diverse, but also includes a number of national government departments, the world's top 500 companies and more than 7,000 institutions of higher learning.

Why would a company so old be interested in a Geoloqi? Because ESRI is strong, but not well known in Silicon Valley and it, the acquisition is mainly aimed at attracting mobile developers, using their tools, and bringing power to the company through Geoloqi. In fact, Geoloqi's founder Amber Kess (Amber case) said in an interview that existing users would not be affected by the acquisition, and that Geoloqi products and services would remain unchanged and Geoloqi would be subsumed under ESRI's research and development department. Geoloqi's existing geo-information platform and ESRI's ArcGIS system will be integrated to create more powerful geo-information applications and mapping tools for use by Web applications and mobile application developers, according to a GEOLOQI company official.

In addition, Kath said that future geographic applications should be more of a personal assistant role, since the geographic applications that can only be used to Exchange coupons for users have little meaning. Geo-information apps can do a lot of good, says Kath, for example, which can be used by users to report peace to their families. In addition, Kath believes that many geo-information applications developers are not thinking about the industry, they are trying to do social applications rather than geographic information applications. ' Unless you live in a very remote place, you don't want to meet a lot of people, ' she says.

It is reported that Geoloqi and ESRI are ready to develop new products, they will soon release an iOS-side map library, which will provide developers with a further choice after Mapkit, Third-party developers can use the ArcGIS iOS SDK to develop geo-information applications. An owner of ESRI said the ArcGIS SDK would provide a high-quality map service for developers, and the programming interface would be similar to Mapkit.

The contents of this article are compiled from: thenextweb

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