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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

London Mapped in Original OS Style

Today Ordnance Survey (OS) is mining data used daily at all levels of national and local government, by the emergency services and large and small businesses. That data is also set to provide the foundation on which Great Britain will build its Smart future. Yet to celebrate its 225th anniversary, OS has returned to its roots and

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

NM Group Expand Geographic Reach – Winning First Major Project in Norway

NM Group, a global leader in providing asset, vegetation and engineering services to power utilities, announced today they have been awarded a significant survey project with Norwegian grid operator Statnett. The project is to acquire around 1,100 km of HV transmission data situated along the Western Norway. NM Group will produce a 3D model of

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

GovPilot Partners with Pictometry International to Offer a More Robust Geographic Information System

HOBOKEN, N.J. – GovPilot has partnered with aerial measurement software manufacturer, Pictometry International Corp, to expand the capabilities of its popular geographic information system (GIS) map feature. In its standard form, GovPilot’s GIS feature illustrates layers of tax assessment data aggregated from state and county records over a Google base map. Many clients choose to

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Control Point Associates, Inc. Acquires Stantec Tri-State Survey and Photogrammetry Group

WARREN, N.J. – Control Point Associates, Inc. is pleased to announce the acquisition of certain assets and key staff of the Tri-State Survey and Photogrammetry group from Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. “This is a tremendous addition to our firm,” said President/Managing Partner, Richard Butkus, Jr. “It allows Control Point to expand additional geographic coverage by

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

CompassCom and Latitude Geographics Announce Application Partnership

Centennial, Colorado, 21 June 2016 – CompassCom and Latitude Geographics today announced a new partnership that makes real-time mobile asset tracking directly accessible in Latitude’s popular Geocortex Essentials product. Asset location, mapping and messaging data captured by the CompassLDE platform can now be ported seamlessly for display into a Geocortex map interface.   CompassCom will

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

New 1/200,000 Scale Baseline Mapping for Mali: The Project Comes to an End in September 2016

The European Union called on IGN FI in October 2012 for a project to rework Mali’s 1/200,000 scale national topographic map, create derived projects and services and modernize the Geographic Institute of Mali (IGM). This project, financed by means of the 10th EDF (European Development Funds) has a dual objective: – Creating a national reference

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

LandWorks Introduces New Spatial Alignment Tool at Esri Conference

HOUSTON, TEXAS, June 21, 2016 – LandWorks Inc., a developer of innovative land management software, has again advanced its integration with Esri technology by creating a new Spatial Alignment Tool that runs as an ArcGIS Desktop extension and automates tedious polygon editing tasks for land mapping professionals and land asset managers.   LandWorks will demonstrate

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Small Vessel Tracking Trials a Success in South Africa

CAMBRIDGE, ON, June 21, 2016 /CNW/ – exactEarth Europe Limited, a UK subsidiary of exactEarth Ltd, the leading provider of Satellite AIS data services, recently successfully concluded the main part of its ‘South Africa Safety Initiative for Small Vessels’ (OASIS) project – a small vessel tracking trial with the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA), part-funded by

Tuesday, June 21st, 2016

Cornerstone Mapping Processing Thermal Imagery with SimActive

Montreal, Canada, June 21st, 2016 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce purchase of Correlator3D™ by Cornerstone Mapping Inc. Based in the U.S., they are primarily using the software to process large datasets of thermal imagery.   “Our main requirement was to process thermal-infrared data for multiple applications including

Monday, June 20th, 2016

Summit Outlines Steps for a National Parcel System

Reston, VA – MAPPS, the association of private sector geospatial firms, announced its participation in a national summit to develop a strategy to establish a National Parcel System of interoperable land ownership data.   “Since the first National Research Council study in 1980, a national “cadastre” or parcel system has been deemed desirable and feasible,