Monday, February 29th, 2016
The Digimap for Schools service has reached a new milestone with 1,000 secondary schools now signed up. The latest achievement, for the popular mapping system, gives hundreds of thousands of pupils across Great Britain access to the latest Ordnance Survey (OS) digital data, including the most detailed maps of the nation through OS MasterMap. Digimap for Schools,
Monday, February 29th, 2016
SUNNYVALE, Calif., — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced today its latest smart antenna with an integrated multi-GNSS receiver for high accuracy and precise timing applications—the Acutime™ 360. The smart antenna provides a pulse-per-second (PPS) output synchronized to UTC within 15 nanoseconds (one sigma). The Acutime 360 is the latest in the Acutime line of products, which have been
Monday, February 29th, 2016
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has appointed a new Chair and Vice Chair and 14 new and continuing members to the National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), which provides recommendations to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the interagency executive group responsible for providing leadership and direction in federal geospatial programs. Julie Sweetkind-Singer,
Monday, February 29th, 2016
Cambridge, UK, 29th February 2016 — 1Spatial, the Cambridge-based spatial data firm, is one of only 40 companies to make it three years in a row on the LSEG list of 1000 Most Inspiring Companies. 75% of these companies are based outside of London. The aim of the list is to “shine a light on
Friday, February 26th, 2016
what3words announced today that it will be providing its innovative 3 word address and location reference system to ArcGIS Marketplace. ArcGIS Marketplace is a destination that enables ArcGIS users to search, discover, and get apps and content from qualified providers. A simple address what3words is an addressing and location reference system based on a global
Friday, February 26th, 2016
Redlands, California—February 25, 2016—Mapping the Nation: Building Smart Government with GIS, a new book from Esri, illustrates the many ways government uses maps created with geographic information system (GIS) technology to create safer, healthier, and more resilient communities. The sixth in Esri’s Mapping the Nation series, the book includes a collection of more than
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Airbus Defense and Space and the J.R. Simplot Company have signed a multi-year agreement that will enable Simplot to have access to very high resolution imagery products from the Pléiades satellites (50cm resolution) over locations in the United States as well as Mexico for precision agriculture. The data will be processed near real-time in the
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
Ubisense Group plc (AIM:UBI), a leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, has released myWorld 3, a significant leap forward for the state of the art in modern geospatial mobile platforms. Key new features of myWorld 3 for mobility include adding support for Apple iOS to existing support for Android and Windows, and the ability to
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
WASHINGTON — The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has awarded a $6 million Wide Area Visualization Environment (WAVE) contract to energy services provider Spectrum Solutions. Spectrum Solutions will implement the WAVE Energy Information Management (EIM) system using software from OSIsoft, the global leader enabling operational intelligence, and Esri, a geospatial technology pioneer, to
Thursday, February 25th, 2016
KNOXVILLE, TN – A new storymap developed by U.S. Forest Service researchers allows users to interactively chart the ebb and flow of forest products across the southern states — and visually tells the story of the decline of the forest products industry in the South over the last decades. Using Forest Service Inventory and
