HERE Technologies today announced that HERE Workspace is expanding to give enterprises more ways to integrate spatial intelligence into their business operations, supply chains and fleets. Launched two years ago as a platform tool for building and scaling customized maps, services and experiences, HERE Workspace is offering new and improved capabilities, including a low-code environment for developing spatial intelligence and a new intuitive and predictable value-based pricing model. HERE is also pleased to announce that HERE Workspace now integrates seamlessly with Amazon SageMaker, enabling users to leverage familiar value-added machine learning tools to enhance their spatial intelligence development. "We believe that every smart enterprise will want its own private map, leveraging its own spatial data at scale," says Giovanni Lanfranchi, Chief Product & Technology Officer at HERE Technologies. "Building on our progress of the last years, we're expanding the possibilities of HERE Workspace by connecting it to Amazon SageMaker, an end-to-end machine learning solution, to deliver even greater value for customers."

Ecopia AI announced that it was selected by a Snap Inc. subsidiary to provide high-precision vector mapping data. Ecopia has proven their ability to deliver highly-accurate mapping data at a large-scale with unparalleled speed, said Snap, Inc subsidiary spokesperson. Ecopia leverages advanced AI-based mapping systems to mine the most up-to-date commercially-available geospatial imagery, accessed through its global partner network, outputting high-precision vector maps. For this initiative, Ecopia turned to Airbus for access to their global premium 30-50cm high-resolution imagery database, which is serving as the input imagery for large-scale map content production. "Ecopia has proven their ability to deliver highly-accurate mapping data at a large-scale with unparalleled speed," said Snap, Inc subsidiary spokesperson.

Narrative cartography is a discipline which studies the interwoven nature of stories and maps. However, conventional geovisualization techniques of narratives often encounter several prominent challenges, including the data acquisition & integration challenge and the semantic challenge. To tackle these challenges, in this paper, we propose the idea of narrative cartography with knowledge graphs (KGs). Firstly, to tackle the data acquisition & integration challenge, we develop a set of KG-based GeoEnrichment toolboxes to allow users to search and retrieve relevant data from integrated cross-domain knowledge graphs for narrative mapping from within a GISystem. With the help of this tool, the retrieved data from KGs are directly materialized in a GIS format which is ready for spatial analysis and mapping. Two use cases - Magellan's expedition and World War II - are presented to show the effectiveness of this approach. In the meantime, several limitations are identified from this approach, such as data incompleteness, semantic incompatibility, and the semantic challenge in geovisualization. For the later two limitations, we propose a modular ontology for narrative cartography, which formalizes both the map content (Map Content Module) and the geovisualization process (Cartography Module). We demonstrate that, by representing both the map content and the geovisualization process in KGs (an ontology), we can realize both data reusability and map reproducibility for narrative cartography.