Learn how AI and location data can create new opportunities for your organisation. Our new guide, Location & AI: The Basics – A practical guide to GeoAI, offers an accessible introduction to GeoAI – the combination of AI and location-based data – and explores how it can create value for businesses, public services, and society.
GeoAI is becoming an increasingly important layer of intelligence for understanding our environment, infrastructure, mobility, agriculture, and communities. Its potential reaches across sectors: from analysing environmental change and improving infrastructure planning to supporting smarter mobility and more efficient public services.
At the same time, making the most of GeoAI requires more than technology. Trustworthy data governance, people with the right skills, ethical frameworks, and collaboration across organisations and sectors are all essential for turning technological potential into responsible and sustainable solutions.
“GeoAI is not just about combining two technologies. It is about adding spatial and contextual information to AI and opening up new ways to understand complex systems and make better decisions. This guide gives organisations a starting point for understanding the technology, exploring its potential, and putting it into practice,” says Eino Yrjänäinen, GIS & AI specialist at the Location Innovation Hub.
The guide is designed for business leaders, innovation managers, public sector decision-makers, developers, researchers, data professionals, and educators involved in AI and geospatial domains. It requires no prior knowledge of artificial intelligence or GIS.
Take your understanding of GeoAI further
The new guide is based on the Location & AI: The Basics online course, developed by the Location Innovation Hub in collaboration with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).
The guide and the online courses are designed to complement each other. While the guide provides a practical reference and introduction to the topic, the online courses offer an opportunity to build knowledge step by step and explore GeoAI in greater depth.
