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
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
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
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Shepperton Studios, 06 April 2016 – Arithmetica will launch a brand new version of Pointfuse at the SPAR 3D Expo in Texas this month. Pointfuse V2 represents a major change in the way that point cloud data is automatically converted to three dimensional vector models. Offering a “one button” approach, the new techniques in Pointfuse
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
SUNNYVALE, Calif., —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today the latest version of its smart water mapping and work management software—Trimble® Unity 3.0. Trimble Unity is a cloud-based, (GIS) centric software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for smart water management. Version 3.0 includes new features and workflows and also offers an App Builder and new integration capabilities to simplify connecting
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Hallowell, Maine — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 7.2 of the GeoCalc Software Development Kit (SDK). This powerful toolkit allows developers to embed the world’s most comprehensive coordinate parameter database into custom geospatial software ensuring precision in any coordinate transformation process. New and updated functionality in the 7.2
