Emerging Industry Overview: Digital Mapping
Industry Snapshot
A rapidly growing and widely diversified field, the digital mapping industry emerged in the late 1990s and almost immediately found ready application in industries as diverse as education, automobile navigation, agriculture, banking, railroading, and telecommunications. Though the idea of integrating and displaying complex data on digital maps was already several decades old at the time, the rapid increases in computer processing power brought business geo-graphics (the use of digital mapping databases for business applications) into the mainstream business world.
By 2000, the number and variety of applications for digital mapping had grown by...