Location-based data has taken stunning leaps recently. The sophistication and immense capacity of cloud computing provides the power behind simple and elegant visual solutions to go beyond locating and analyzing what is currently happening in a given location—be it simple sales regions, power grid analysis, transportation, or other data. Location-intelligent analysis now provides organizations new and elegant modes for analyzing multiple data streams from mapping to weather, to health and safety and more to reliably predict what will happen.

The new Infographic from Esri, The Future of Location-Based Data, shows the pioneering ways Esri and Microsoft Azure have partnered to combine cloud infrastructure, geospatial analytics and visualization in Esri’s new Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM). The infographic demonstrates how location-intelligent analysis and prediction enable breakthrough insights for everything from safer traffic patterns to conserving natural resources.