Felt Blog

Today we’re introducing Field App, Felt’s native mobile app for iOS and Android. Built on our cloud and AI-native GIS platform, Field App brings Felt’s modern mapping experience to your mobile device. Teams can collect data, access their workspace, and collaborate in real time with the same performance and reliability Felt delivers on the web. It's both a world-class field collection tool and the…

Learn what geospatial mapping is, how it works, and how it’s shaping industries and future technologies.

Redshift: for managing petabyte-scale data in the cloud In the world of data analytics, Amazon’s fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse in the cloud is a go-to option for many — and for good reason. It works seamlessly with the rest of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, has wide support across the industry. For those in the GIS industry, its native GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY datatype suppo…

Take full control over Felt’s UI and create custom applications with our JavaScript SDK.

In the race to derive insights from spatial data, engineering teams need tools that scale. That’s why we built Felt SQL queries.

Discover the best free map APIs for developers and learn how they compare to Google Maps API to improve your app development projects.

What is geospatial analysis? Learn the tools, techniques, and real-world applications that turn spatial data into actionable insights.

Imagine creating any web map design you want with just a prompt. With Felt AI you can.

At Felt, we are on a mission to create a better way to work with maps. Over the past year, organizations of all sizes have adopted Felt as their go-to tool for mapping workflows. In that same time, our users have grown from managing one map to managing thousands, requiring new ways to organize, structure and manage their work inside of Felt. Today we are announcing powerful new tools for administ…

Powerful mapping capabilities with seamless collaboration is always our goal, and that's why we designed Felt workspaces to be configurable to your workflow.

What is OpenStreetMap? Learn how this community-led platform is changing the game for open-source mapping and geospatial data collection.

Felt’s public beta, and a new $15M round of funding Sam Hashemi , CEO & Co-founder • Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet. Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet. Today, people in industries around the world rely on maps to do their jobs. In agriculture, they’re used to understand the temperature and rainfall im…

We sat down with Brooke Marston to understand life as a cartographer for the State Department where she works at "the nexus of intelligence and diplomacy."

Tell me about your role as a Front-End Developer with the San Antonio Spurs. What does it have to do with maps? Essentially a team’s operation’s staff houses the data on NBA players. It’s my job to convert the numbers that come out of models into data visualizations for the front office. Things like sparklines, bar charts, line graphs, etc. Mapping specifically comes into play for a specific type…

How to use Hot Reloading with Phoenix and Webpack to save time in complex React web applications.

Configuration is one of the rougher edges of the Elixir ecosystem even after the many improvements over the years. Because it's always been rough, you may not expect, and therefore miss, the hidden improvements nested in recent Elixir releases. This post will shine a light on ways to leverage these improvements for better configuration. Note on terminology: - “application environment” refers to a…

Nate Irwin's team made our National Parks Service maps digital, transforming the visitor experience for over quarter million annual visitors.

The internet is being re-written for collaboration: first docs, then design and now maps. Here is how Felt is approaching the complexity of multiplayer mapping.

Michelle Jennings, the woman behind the Amtrak 2035 map shares how it was made and what it's like having a career in GIS.

As a mapping company, we curate and visualize all sorts of data for our users. Part of delivering this experience is making sure that it’s easy to interact with data layers (e.g. emphasizing fast tile delivery, letting you filter legend items and/or click geometric attributes for additional detail). “Making sure it’s easy,” is not an easy thing to do, however. The world, and the data we use to re…