Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Members of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Coordinate Reference System (CRS) Standards Working Group (SWG). The purpose of the OGC SWG is to revise Abstract Specification Topic 2 – Spatial Referencing by Coordinates to the state of an adopted OGC standard and an identical ISO International
Friday, April 22nd, 2016
Tallahassee, Fla. – Today, the Florida Division of Emergency Management announced the selection of Everbridge as the service provider for the development and implementation of AlertFlorida, a landmark initiative which will provide statewide emergency alert and notification services to all Florida residents, businesses and visitors. “Ensuring the safety of all Floridians is the Division’s top
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
NORCROSS, GA and WROCLAW, POLAND – We are pleased to announce that Wroclaw Institute has been appointed as a partner by Hexagon Geospatial — world’s leading producer of geospatial software and platforms. The agreement grants to The Wroclaw Institute right for selling its flagship — Semantic Components solution bundled with Hexagon’s GeoMedia globally. Semantic Components is
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
The latest version of Europa Technologies’ global map data products includes layers which can assist in the creation of no-fly zones for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). A recent aircraft-drone collision in the United Kingdom highlights the immediate need for mandatory geographic restrictions on drone operation. On 17 April 2016, a British Airways A320 aircraft was
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
Huntsville, Alabama, April 21, 2016 – Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure has released Intergraph® Damage Assessment, an application that enables end-to-end automation of the entire post-storm damage assessment process. Intergraph Damage Assessment can be used for simple outage patrols, as well as in times of devastating storm damage, making it an everyday solution that maximizes return
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
Leicestershire, UK — The Parks Trust, the charitable organisation responsible for parks and green spaces in Milton Keynes, UK, is using a range of highly detailed geographic datasets from Bluesky to manage its portfolio of property and open spaces. Deployed in the Trust’s GIS, the high resolution aerial photography, detailed laser mapped height models and National Tree Map
Thursday, April 21st, 2016
St. Cloud, MN — GeoSolve, a GIS services provider in Oregon, is pleased to announce the launch of a new and improved website www.geosolveinc.com The newly designed website offers quick and easy access to essential information, offering visitors a better understanding of the GIS services GeoSolve offers. GeoSolve’s new website will be updated on a
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
Live from ESA’s ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy: follow the event to celebrate the launch of the second satellite for the ‘radar vision’ mission, Sentinel-1. The second in the two-satellite mission, Sentinel-1B, is set for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 22 April at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). During the
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
LIVERMORE, Calif. – Topcon Positioning Group and RDO Integrated Controls announce an expansion of the TopNETlive GNSS network service across Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. The increased availability is the result of a cooperative effort between Topcon and RDO Integrated Controls. TopNETlive is designed to deliver high-accuracy GNSS correction data to rovers for surveying,
Wednesday, April 20th, 2016
Washington D.C – Boundless, the world leader in commercially supported open source GIS software, announces that QGIS 2.14.1, the latest release of the premier open-source desktop GIS technology, is now available for download here. This is a significant update, comprising many new features and capabilities. The Boundless 2.14.1 QGIS release includes all the core plugins of the
