A city is a large, permanent human settlement. But try and define it more carefully and you’ll soon run into trouble. A settlement that qualifies as a city in Sweden may not qualify in China, for example. And the reasons why one settlement is classified…

Hurricane Sandy’s Impact Measured by Millions of Flickr Pictures
A new study has discovered a striking connection between the number of pictures of Hurricane Sandy posted on Flickr and the atmospheric pressure in New…

GCS Webinar to Demonstrate Social Mood Mapping with Location Analytics
On October 24, GCS will introduce ‘Social Doppler,’ a new method of applying advanced location analytics to real-time social media data to measure,…