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first published week of: 01/16/2017
Hexagon Geospatial is proud to announce the winners of the IGNITE competition. The IGNITE competition challenged innovative thinkers to brainstorm real-world problems that could benefit from geospatial technology. They were then asked to use Hexagon Geospatial’s platform to build applications – Hexagon Smart M.Apps – that transform their ideas into dynamic information services.
Tomasz Berezowski Takes Home $100,000 Grand Prize
The Grand Prize-winning Smart M.App was Mind M.App by Tomasz Berezowski and his Graph Revolution team from The Wroclaw Institute in Poland. As Grand Prize Winner, Tomasz will receive a $100,000 prize to invest in his burgeoning geospatial business.
“Mind M.App introduces a new data modeling paradigm, allowing you to discover hidden links and uncover spatial patterns,” said Mladen Stojic, President, Hexagon Geospatial. “Mind M.App exemplifies the power of a Hexagon Smart M.App: a dynamic tool for re-envisioning geospatial data in a way that elicits and communicates new insights that can help solve a variety of real-world problems. Congratulations, Tomasz!”
The Mind M.App is the first Smart M.App to combine a graph data model with Hexagon Geospatial’s platform. Mind M.App allows you to create maps of associations between entities. You can record complex knowledge gathered during research or an investigation and combine it with external data sources using RDF technology. Once you have your mind map created you can discover hidden links and spatial patterns to provide new insight. This can help in a variety of uses, from helping investigative journalists and forensic scientists to visualizing office locations and tracing genealogy.
Second and Third Place Winners: continued…