Thursday, September 1st, 2016
Redlands, California—Leading Global Geospatial Platform Provider Esri was among six companies that Forrester invited to participate in its Q3 2016, Forrester Wave™ evaluation, Geospatial Analytics Tools and Platforms. Forrester conducted interviews with 23 organizations and selected Esri as one of the top six software providers to evaluate in the report.Forrester notes, “Esri is an authoritative
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Digital maps company HERE, controlled by German carmakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), aims to find a new investor by the end of the year, HERE chief Edzard Overbeek told a German newspaper. “The carmakers want to open the circle of shareholders. We are talking to dozens of parties interested in taking a stake,” daily
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Cheseaux, Switzerland, August 31 — Swiss professional drone manufacturer, senseFly, expanded its portfolio today with the launch of the new eBee SQ fixed-wing agricultural drone. This cutting-edge unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is built for the Parrot Sequoia multispectral camera and can cover up to 10 times more ground than small quadcopter drones. The eBee SQ
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS – East View Companies is proud to announce the launch of East View Nautical, the company’s newest website, dedicated to maritime professionals and nautical enthusiasts. The site leverages East View’s many partnerships with hydrographic agencies around the world to provide the latest paper, raster, and vector bathymetric data, seafloor DEM modeling, training charts and publications. The
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Jeff McKenna, the past president of the OSGeo foundation and the co-founder of the international FOSS4G conference, was honored on Friday with the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software during closing ceremony of the FOSS4G-2016 conference in Bonn, Germany. The award is presented in recognition of Jeff’s deep passion for
Wednesday, August 31st, 2016
Supergeo, the global GIS software and solution provider, is pleased to announce that the Italian local water supplier, APM group, further selects SuperGIS products as its geospatial solution. Located in Macerata, Italy, the APM group (Azienda Pluriservizi Macerata S.p.A.) is a company provides multiple services for the citizens, including public transportation, water supply, health service,
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy on Aug. 24, 2016. Approximately 300 people died as a result of the quake, which devastated several towns in the country’s Apennine mountain belt. The Italian peninsula features fault lines created by the separation of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. The fault line separating these two plates
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
The next 2016 testing window for the GISCI Geospatial Core Technical Knowledge Exam® as a part of the GISP Certification has been scheduled for December 3-10, and will be administered by PSI Online through their worldwide testing facilities in a computer based testing (CBT) format. The Exam application form and testing center locations are now
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
Professional infrastructure and environmental services firm Cardno has released new technology designed to help reduce man-hours required to clear an accident scene. The technology has already been used by several agencies throughout western Washington. To document and map crime scenes today, law enforcement often requires the lanes where accidents occurred to be closed, often causing
Tuesday, August 30th, 2016
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Aton Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AAN) (“the “Company”) is very pleased to report that it has begun a regional remote sensing and spectral imaging survey covering the 40km gold mineralized trend at its Abu Marawat concession area in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. This trend runs between its Abu Marawat gold project
