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Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

Measuring Africa’s Ups and Downs

The East African Rift is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart, making it a region of high geological activity, home to a number of volcanoes.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

MAPPS to Host Special Washington Policy Lunch to Address UAVs, August 14

MAPPS will host a special roundtable discussion of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) issues featuring key Congressional staff on Wednesday, August 14.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Intermap Announces $3.5 Million Mapping Services Solutions Contract

Intermap (TSX: IMP), (ITMSF:BB), a leading provider of geospatial solutions on-demand created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced that the Company was awarded a US $3.5 million contract for an airborne radar mapping services solution.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

DigitalGlobe Adds “Daily Take” to My DigitalGlobe

If you have a U.S. Government email, you could have access to current imagery from around the world. If you are supported by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), including all branches, departments, agencies and offices of the U.S. Government, you can have immediate access to DigitalGlobe’s current, high-resolution commercial satellite imagery. This access is

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Avenza Releases MAPublisher 9.3 for Adobe Illustrator

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 9.3 for Adobe Illustrator. This latest update includes new many features and is fully compatible with the recently released Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

OpenGeo Announces Strategic Engineering Hires

OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, today announced it has hired Jody Garnett, Tom Kunicki and Scooter Wadsworth to its expanding engineering team. Garnett’s hire builds on the company’s track record of bringing together leaders from a wide array of open source projects.

Monday, August 5th, 2013

ASPRS Lidar Division Releases First LAS Domain Profile

Thanks to a recent initiative of the ASPRS Lidar Division, different segments of the lidar mapping community now have the ability to customize the LAS file format to meet their application-specific needs.  The new mechanism that makes this possible is the LAS Domain Profile, which is a derivative of the base LAS v1.4 specification that

Monday, August 5th, 2013

Southern Federal University Receives Data from the Russian “Meteor-M” № 1 Satellite

In July, the Center of Space Monitoring of the Southern Federal University received Earth remote sensing data from the Russian medium resolution “Meteor-M” №1 satellite for the first time.

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Trimble Adds DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery to Mobile Apps and Printed Maps

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced it has entered into an agreement with DigitalGlobe Inc. (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, to license its satellite imagery for offline use in Trimble Outdoors mobile apps, allowing outdoor enthusiasts to view and store imagery on their smartphones and tablets. 

Friday, August 2nd, 2013

New Developer Subscriptions for ArcGIS Online

Esri announced today that it is providing a free developer subscription for its web, mobile, and online tools and services. This new plan includes access to powerful geoservices as well as the ability to host your own data in the Esri cloud as RESTful web services that can be consumed by a wide variety of