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101 Most Innovative Geospatial Startups & Companies (California)

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This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Geospatial companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Geospatial industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top California Geospatial Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Planet

Planet

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Planet is an aerospace and data analytics company that builds small satellites and delivers information about the changing planet.

AiDash

AiDash

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AiDash is a SaaS company that enables satellite-powered operations and maintenance for utility, energy, and other core industries.

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Capella Space

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Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 24/7 SAR data for government and commercial customers.

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Hivemapper

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Hivemapper is a community-owned mapping network that creates unprecedented coverage, freshness, and quality.

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Orbital Insight

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Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning

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Hayden AI

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Smart Traffic Enforcement Platform Powered by Artificial Intelligence

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Netradyne

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Netradyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.

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Pixxel

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Pixxel is a space technology startup that builds a constellation of advanced earth imaging small satellites.

AiDash

StreetLight Data

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StreetLight Data is a data analytics company transforming urban planning and transportation design with the power of geospatial data.

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Kinetica

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Kinetica combines historical and streaming data analysis with powerful location intelligence and AI for instant results.

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Umbra

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Space and Earth based datasets for your defense, intelligence and analytics solutions.

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Factual

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The location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses.

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Atlas AI

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Atlas AI is an analytics platform that guides the deployment of investment and other resource allocation decisions in the emerging markets.

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Placer.ai

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Placer.ai offers a traffic analytics platform that allows anyone to generate insights into any property.

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CrowdAI

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CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.

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Geosite

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Business operations platform that links the power of spatial data and analytics to business operations, incident management, and planning.

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Enview

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Enview is a 3D geospatial analytics company providing automated data analytics to the energy industry and government agencies.

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Astro Digital

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Astro Digital is a global imaging and analysis company that develops a platform for fast and easy access to satellite imagery.

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Compound Eye

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Compound Eye develops 3D vision systems for autonomous machines.

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GeoOptics

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Geooptics is an environmental data company that carries out daily weather forecasting, environmental monitoring, and research activities.

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dataplor

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The most accurate source of international places data

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CITYDATA.ai

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CITYDATA provides mobility intelligence and citizen apps for smart cities.

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EOS Data Analytics

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EOS Data Analytics is a trusted global provider of AI-powered satellite imagery analysis.

AiDash

Bluefield Technologies

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Precise, always-on methane leak detection via microsatellites (http://bluefield.co)

AiDash

Bountiful

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Bountiful is an agtech company that helps farmers understand what impacts crop production in the field and at scale.

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LocusLabs

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LocusLabs is a geospatial data service that enables venues and enterprises to create location aware experiences.

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Frontier Aerospace

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Frontier Aerospace focuses on conceptualizing, designing, and proving-out innovative in-space.

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Overlay

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Precision AR – Augmented reality outdoors over large distances and long spans of time at centimeter-level accuracy.

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Reality Coin

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RealityCoin is a software that allows its users to take imageries within 360° that goes in pair with their other software, RealityMine.

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Hera Systems

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Hera Systems is a satellite information and analytics company that collects images of the Earth.

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MapJam

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MapJam provides map publishing tools to personalize, brand, and add important context to maps.

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LOTaDATA

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LOTaDATA curates geospatial ground truth data sets on a global scale.

AiDash

GraphLI

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Delivery Management Automation Software

AiDash

World Population Review

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World Population Review turns complex demographic information into easy-to-understand articles on population of countries and cities.

AiDash

Navagis

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Navagis is a Google Enterprise Partner focused on software development and consulting for an organization’s geospatial visualization

AiDash

Agralogics

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Agralogics offers SaaS-based applications and services that provide geo-referenced big data analytics for the hospitality industry.

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Range

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Range is a collaboration platform for spatial data.

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AmigoCloud

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AmigoCloud is a geospatial platform that helps you collect, manage, analyze, visualize, and publish your location data.

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GeoFrenzy

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GeoFrenzy enables applications and devices with geospacial context, in order to make autonomous decisions

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UBIQWIFI

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UBIQWIFI is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that utilizes artificial intelligence and geospatial intelligence.

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Keyhole Inc.

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Keyhole is a software development company that specializes in geospatial data visualization applications.

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Geospatial Alpha

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Geospatial Alpha is an early stage investor and advisor in geospatial technologies and intelligence.

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Voxelmaps

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Voxelmaps creates a 3D model of the planet, with 10cm positional accuracy, with full photographic and semantic detail.

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Airio

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Autonomous Aerial Fleet Systems

AiDash

Nobel Systems

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Nobel System’s GeoViewer integrates CMMS, billing, inventory, work order, IoT, GIS systems with real-time with field management.

AiDash

echoecho

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EchoEcho is a mobile software company that offers an open API, cross-platform, carrier agnostic location sharing system.

AiDash

Voyager Search

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Voyager Search is a software company that provides smart spatial search and geospatial enterprise search solutions to customers.

AiDash

California Surveying & Drafting Supply

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California Surveying & Drafting Supply is a provider of geospatial tools, technology and training for businesses and government agencies.

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Geocam

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Geocam is a software company that provides HD mapping and imaging for the enterprise.

AiDash

Terraphase Engineering

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Terraphase Engineering is an environmental consultancy that offers stormwater remediation, geotechnical and civil engineering services.

AiDash

Novvum

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A Full-Service Software Development & Consulting Firm

AiDash

LocalData

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LocalData makes digital tools to collect and analyze information about urban infrastructure.

AiDash

InstaGIS

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InstaGIS (500 Startups ‘13) equips local gov with data-driven tools to understand citizens and drive meaningful, proactive engagement.

AiDash

Survae

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Survae is a geospatial media company. We provide digital asset management for video, imagery and associated data — with the context of maps.

AiDash

minMax Optimization Inc.

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Geo-spatial and financial optimization solvers.

AiDash

Vection Group, Inc.

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Vection Group is an ongoing cloud based streaming API software company. We provide B2B, B2C and B2M SaaS for the IoT, Smart Cities & others

AiDash

Factle Maps

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Neighborhood Boundary Mapping Data

AiDash

Fract

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Business Intelligence Gone Spatial – GeoSpatial AI Data Analytics

AiDash

Farallon Geographics

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Farallon Geographics is a San Francisco based professional services firm that helps clients use geographical and location information to

AiDash

GEODNET

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Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) is the first network that utilizes the limited Earth surface as the resource.

AiDash

Eprazel

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Eprazel is transforming the antiquated process of commercial real estate valuations through the use of data science and machine learning.

AiDash

Ai4 Technologies, Inc.

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REAL-TIME REMOTE SENSING INTELLIGENCE

AiDash

Municon West Coast

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Municon West Coast is a structural and geotechnical instrumentation monitoring service provider company.

AiDash

Alanax

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Alanax develops software and cloud services to design and control complex wireless networks.

AiDash

Valarm

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Tools.Valarm.net Saves Your Organization’s Time + Money by Monitoring Water, Air, Tanks, Levels, & Any Assets with Industrial IoT Sensors

AiDash

JUNXION™

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JUNXION is a mobile platform that makes it easy for people to discover places where they can spend their cryptocurrency.

AiDash

Arxys

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Arxys is an activated hardware acceleration company that orchestrates the complexity of disparate systems into a synthesized solution.

AiDash

3D Groundworks

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3D Groundworks provides photography, 3D modeling, 3D scanning, imaging, visualization, and metrology services for the real estate sector.

AiDash

PhotoEnforced.com

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Photo Enforced & Traffic Cameras Map (Red Light, Speed, Traffic, Stop Sign, School, LPR Cameras)

AiDash

Meridian Consultants

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Meridian Consultants provides air quality, noise, mitigation monitoring, water resource evaluation, and environmental planning services.

AiDash

VESTRA Resources

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VESTRA Resources is a full-service geospatial and information technology systems provider for professionals, engineers, and scientists.

AiDash

Deadcellzones.com

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Crowdsouced 5G Cell Phone Coverage Reviews

AiDash

Ray Carlson & Associates

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Ray Carlson & Associates is a consultancy that provides satellite based land surveying, remote sensing, mapping, and cartography services.

AiDash

Koolock

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Koolock is a data analytics and remote sensing firm with the goal of gathering and analyzing “Big Earth” data.

AiDash

NSGIS

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NSGIS is an IT company that renders geospatial system integration consultation, database creation, cloud hosting and geocortex deployments.

AiDash

Questiny Group

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Questiny Group specialize on understanding the market space – the key actors and the market dynamics that shapes the products and services.

AiDash

Green Leaf Mapping & Control Systems

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Green Leaf Mapping & Control Systems began as a full service landscape contracting firm in 1975.

AiDash

Boundary Solutions

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Boundary Solutions is a digital GIS parcel map database that provides National Parcel Layer and ParceAtlas for ArcGIS online.

AiDash

Earth Forensics

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Earth Forensics deals with environmental analysis, site investigation, GIS, data collection, energy consulting and water assessment.

AiDash

Syndicated Maps

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Crowdsourcing Public Safety Data

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InDepth Corporation

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InDepth Corporation specializes in providing data management, geophysics, munitions response, training and construction support.

AiDash

AMS Consulting

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AMS Consulting is a specialized infrastructure asset management company that focuses on helping clients improve infrastructure performances.

AiDash

Skygone

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Skygone is an IT company that offers its users with Cloud computing, GIS, SaaS, and provides AppLogic certified cloud architects.

AiDash

Lynx Technologies

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Lynx Technologies is a consulting firm that deals with GIS and digital mapping solutions.

AiDash

SolarEnergyMaps.com

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Crowdsourced Map of Solar Farms, Schools, Roofs & Parking Lots

AiDash

Scoutred

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Scoutred is a real estate due diligence engine.

AiDash

ForeSight

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ForeSight is a geographic information system.

AiDash

Geoconsultants

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Geoconsultants provides geologic consulting services.

AiDash

X-Spatial

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X-Spatial deals in GIS data management, information management, consulting and training for airport facilities.

AiDash

Geo1

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Geo1 specializes in a geospatial survey and provides pole-top inspection, digital twin, archaeology, and clash detection service.

AiDash

PPI Engineering

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PPI Engineering is an agricultural and civil engineering firm that provides vineyard design, feasibility studies, and water development.

AiDash

MoosePoint Technology

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MoosePoint Technology offers web-based geospatial solutions, software, mobile apps development, web hosting and database design services.

AiDash

Precision Geographic

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Precision Geographic provides geospatial software products.

AiDash

DrillingMaps.com

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Map of Oil & Natural Gas Drilling Health & Safety Issues

AiDash

Women in GIS

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Women in GIS is an international, professional, advocacy group, and social organization for all women and their allies.

AiDash

PriorIT Consulting

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PriorIT Consulting specializing in GIS and IT services for all facets of GIS planning, design, development, and production lifecycles.

AiDash

Q&S Engineering

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Q&S Engineering is a consulting firm that specializes in environmental, geotechnical, oceanographic solutions, and compliance support.

AiDash

MapVersa

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MapVersa is expertise in satellite image interpretation and processing providing geocoding, Geospatial Data services.

AiDash

USgeocoder

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USgeocoder offers custom GIS app development, district mapping, API & demographics, GIS mapping and address batch processing service.

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PacSeis

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Pacseis provides seismic data for the oil and gas industries.

AiDash

Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic

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Lapkoff & Gobalet Demographic Research offers research, GIS mapping, documentation, district planning, and data analysis services.

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