Friday, April 8th, 2016
TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration, field engineering and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.9.3, which features full support for OGC GeoPackage, a universal format for sharing maps and geographic data across mobile devices and all platforms. TerraGo Edge enables users to import and export OGC GeoPackage as a SQLite database
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
New US Topo maps for Texas and Oklahoma are now available in the USGS Store for free download. One of the main improvements is the inclusion of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) road data. “The US Topo digital maps are a great public resource to provide authoritative, robust maps
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) requests public comment on the update of OGC Abstract Specification Topic 11: Metadata from ISO 19115:2003 to ISO 19115:2014. The update has been approved by the OGC Architecture Board (OAB) and the Metadata Domain Working Group (DWG). The period for public comment ends 07 May, 2016 ISO 19115-1:2014 defines the
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
It’s time to announce the next huge leap of SuperGIS Mobile Solution! The well-known Mobile Cadastral App powered by Supergeo, one of the best-selling land management and cadastral survey work application on Android platform, is going to have an international version which has been already under construction. The international version of Mobile Cadastral App will
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
MCLEAN, Va. — Vricon has announced it has selected Japan Space Imaging Corporation (JSI) for an exclusive reselling agreement. JSI is appointed as Vricon’s distributor in Japan and an exclusive partner for the Japanese defense and intelligence segment. Vricon provides The Globe in 3D – the most accurate geospatial terrain data of Earth in 3D. The
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Redlands, California—Esri is inviting people to submit their top Esri Story Map projects for a chance to win prizes and peer recognition at the Esri User Conference. Contest participants can submit up to three preexisting or new story maps between now and May 23, 2016. Story maps come in many forms and have a wide
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
The IGN has awarded Airbus Defence and Space and Thales the so-called GeoMaps contract to supply the French Ministry of Defence database with digital geographic data on a range of scales, including city maps. They will mainly be based on images acquired by the two Pléiades satellites, significantly increasing the accuracy of the maps to
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
April 7, 2016 — Teledyne Optech is pleased to announce that it will unveil a truly innovative airborne collection system at the ASPRS Imaging & Geospatial Technology Forum (IGTF) on April 11-15 in Fort Worth, TX. The forum will also see a presentation on a recent survey in Panama by the Optech CZMIL (Coastal Zone
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
NEWTON MA (USA) – Caliper is pleased to announce that the 2016 U.S. Census Blocks Groups data layer is now available for the entire United States. The 2016 Block Group data work with the latest versions of Caliper’s Maptitude mapping software and TransCAD transportation planning software. The 2016 U.S. Census Block Groups data is packed
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Despite only being in orbit a matter of weeks, Sentinel-3A has already delivered some impressive first images. With the thermal-infrared channels now turned on, the satellite completes its set of firsts with a view of ocean features off the coast of Namibia. Arguably the most comprehensive of all the Copernicus Sentinel missions, Sentinel-3A carries a
