But working with businesses that are entrenched in their ways is a huge challenge as Bill Clee, chief executive and founder of Asset Mapping, which enables mapping of assets in the built environment, has found: "You are trying to change not just people's perspective on technology but how businesses work," he said.
A map of assets, that is readily available and ready to use when disaster strikes, was promised in 2009.
Participatory and large-scale community mapping of exposed assets such as schools, hospitals, and other public and private buildings now exist in many areas across the globe, including developing countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, and South Sudan (GFDRR 2014).
Later on in that same paragraph the reader is confronted with this: "The end product is a more robust and time-consistent combination of asset classes that map clearly to the underlying factors".
The community assessment included the following methodologies--a survey of food stores using the NEMS tool [ 27], mapping of store results with other community assets, focus groups with neighborhood residents, and secondary analysis of parent surveys (described above).
d Effect of volatility of asset return.
Socio-economic status was categorized by quintiles of asset scores.
Costs paid for preparation of asset installation.
Microsoft may have sold off some of its mapping assets to Uber last week, but almost as if to show that it's still taking Bing Maps seriously, the company today announced a new preview release of Bing Maps for the web.
That mix includes Uber's own mapping assets, which include its acquisitions of Microsoft's Bing mapping assets and startup deCarta.
