Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers, who led the map's development.

WSJ: Map Plots Rising Seas Street by Jersey Street

The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, another research hotbed, uses data from London's Oyster cards used to pay for public transport and Twitter messages.

ECONOMIST: Urban research

ESRI's software's key strength is the "club sandwich effect" by which customers handle advanced spatial analysis with up to dozens of layers of data from economic, demographic and environmental databases.

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