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Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Blue Marble Geographics Announces Revised Public Training Class Schedule and User Conference for Fall 2016

Hallowell, Maine  – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) today confirmed the locations for the remaining Global Mapper public training classes for 2016 as well as the date for rescheduled Blue Marble User Conference (BMUC) in Pittsburgh, PA. During the first six months of 2016, Blue Marble Applications Specialists conducted training classes in several cities throughout North

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

Trimble R2 GNSS Receiver Now Available for Data Collection

Redlands, California — June 30, 2016 — Esri announced today the availability of the Trimble R2 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver for collecting professional-grade GPS data with Collector for ArcGIS. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is rugged certified MIL-STD-810G, IP65 rated, compact and streamlined to enable a quick setup. The Trimble R2 GNSS receiver is

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

TomTom and sensewhere Team Up to Bring Location Based Services Indoors

Esri User Conference, San Diego, CA – TomTom (TOM2) today announced a technology collaboration with a leading provider of indoor positioning technology, sensewhere Limited. This collaboration will enable the two companies to conquer GPS black spots and bring location based services indoors. TomTom Indoor delivers accurate customised indoor maps of public and private venues for

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Pinellas County Receives Esri Enterprise GIS Award

REDLANDS, Calif.- This week, Esri presented Pinellas County, Florida, with the 2016 Enterprise GIS Award for innovating a smart community governance model. That model fulfilled county initiatives to build a public GIS with apps that benefit the community. One of those apps used Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) open data to save property owners $5.3

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

what3words Partners with Global Logistics Giant Aramex

London, June 29, 2016 – what3words, the multi-award winning addressing platform, has closed a $8.5 million (USD) Series B funding round, led by global logistics giant Aramex, with existing investors Intel Capital and British funds Force Over Mass Capital and Mustard Seed also participating. Aramex operates in 60 countries around the world, and will use

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

SuperSurv Helps French Environment Department in Alsace

Supergeo Technologies is pleased to announce that SuperSurv, the multifunctional mobile GIS software was earlier selected by the DREAL of Alsace to collect spatial data. Integrated by three different departments and established in 2010, the DREAL of Alsace is the regional environmental authority of Alsace, France. Its mission is to ensure the sustainable development of

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

INTERGEO – Strong Location, Even Stronger INTERGEO

Karlsruhe – “Hamburg has pulling power” – says Prof. Karl-Friedrich Thöne. The venue is perfect for INTERGEO. Why? An interview with DVW president and INTERGEO patron Thöne about the growing high-tech show and its diverse conference programme. INTERGEO 2015 in Stuttgart broke all the records in terms of exhibition space and visitor numbers. Are you

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Longitude Announces Offering of Rare Soviet Maps of U.S. Cities

MINNEAPOLIS – Longitude Maps is announcing the sale of historic U.S. city maps developed by the Soviet Union military. Developed in the Cold War era, the maps were part of an undertaking by the Soviet military to record the entire world, and featured a then-unprecedented level of detail and accuracy, including street width and building-types.

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Arun District Council Grasps Opportunities by Migrating to Cadcorp GIS

A district council in West Sussex is using GIS and web mapping technology from British software developer Cadcorp, to power a range of internal and public-facing geospatial applications. When Arun District Council (ADC) was informed by its software supplier that the internet and intranet GIS products it was using were nearing end-of-life and would no

Wednesday, June 29th, 2016

Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center Announce New Mapping Tool for Media and Philanthropy

New York, NY — Media Impact Funders (MIF) and Foundation Center are pleased to announce the launch of Foundation Maps for Media Funding, a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically-funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Developed by Foundation Center and available on the Media Impact Funders’ website, this