What is special about getting time together with GIS you ask? Tons! We work a lot on showing the benefits of visual analysis which allows analysts to see changes over both space and time. Movement, for instance, is very difficult to visualize in traditional timeline views. Map viewers typically have no way of showing the dimension of time within your data. Pattern analysis is another area that is difficult to do without seeing both where and when things occurred. We believe that a fused time, space and link viewer is the key to understand movements, patterns and behaviors.   

With that in mind, we decided that Valentine’s Day was the perfect opportunity for us to announce the latest release of our visual analysis tool. GeoTime was designed from the ground up for visual analysis of data that has location, time and link information. Think GPS, communications and transactional data. This new release targets three key analysis workflows:

• Automatically find locations of interest
  • Identify locations frequently visited by multiple individuals
  • Detect movement close to locations and areas of interest
• Easy loading of Call Detail Records to show movement and call patterns
  • New Import Wizard for CDR records
  • Supports all major carriers
  • Works on other types of communications data (ex: email, IMs, radio)
• Spot trends and patterns within large data sets
  • From your RMS, CMS and other back end systems
  • Scale up to hundreds of thousands of events

This latest release will also see the first ever 64bit version of GeoTime, giving analysts the ability to import much larger data sets then previous releases. Check out the What’s New Videos to see just how much data we can throw into GeoTime’s 3D viewer.

We will be hosting a webinar of What’s New in GeoTime 5.3 February 22nd, which will cover the new capabilities and enhancements in this release. For those interested in attending the presentation, head on over to the registrations page.


Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

The GeoTime Team

From time to time, we like to give the world a sneak peek into what the GeoTime Team is working on. These new features and capabilities are things that we are designing, developing or just testing out to see if they fly. And not all of them will make it into a GeoTime release. These previews videos are meant to let users know where we are headed and to get a glimpse of what might be coming up in future releases of the software.

In this video, we will be working with a data set recorded in the Canadian Rockies (Marmot Basin to be exact!). One of our GeoTime Team members used a GPS device to record a portion of their day skiing the slopes. What was great was that the device captured their altitude, which we allowed us to show their movement up and down the slopes over time. For analysis, we wanted to understand where they spent most of their time skiing and show that on the map, in a heatmap type display. To accomplish this, we divided the hill into four areas or regions using map graphics and then summarized the number of events in each one, which in turn determined the color of these regions. The darker the color, the more time the skier spent in that region. What’s great is that you can drive these map graphics with any data that a user imports, which is really useful for doing crime series analysis, fraud reporting and customer visit heatmaps.