Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial and location intelligence software, has promoted John Timar to senior director, Federal Programs. He will lead TerraGo’s Federal government strategy and team of deeply experienced partner and account managers.
Monday, December 17th, 2012
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites interested organizations to attend the January 15 OWS-9 Testbed Demonstration and Exhibition. This event will be held as part of the OGC Technical Committee meeting at the Esri campus in Redlands, California, 14-18 January 2012.
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
DigitalGlobe has published its 20 best satellite images of 2012 and it is now looking for public feedback to select the top one. The satellite images feature natural disasters and wonder, political issues, and other events. The public can browse through the images on DigitalGlobe’s Facebook page and use the “like” button to vote on their favorites until
Saturday, December 15th, 2012
DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of high-resolution earth imagery solutions, today announced that MapBox (www.mapbox.com), a provider of open source solutions for designing and publishing maps via the cloud, has chosen DigitalGlobe as their commercial earth imagery provider.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Esri Canada congratulates business startup Environmaps for receiving an honourable mention at the recent AngelHack Toronto, the world’s largest Web developer competition. Environmaps created environmaps.com, a one-click land-use planning app that supports non-residential property development. The app leverages ArcGIS, Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) solution, integrated with open-source software and consumer-oriented maps. Through the app, property developers can
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to have been selected to present a paper on post processing LiDAR data with Global Mapper at the European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) conference in Salzburg, Austria. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Frost & Sullivan has named TerraGo Technologies a notable market participant in its recently released “Analysis of the U.S. Defense Geospatial Market” report.
Friday, December 7th, 2012
1Spatial, which manages the world’s largest spatial data, has been awarded the, single source contract by the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain (OSGB), under which its will supply software support and consultancy services to the Ordnance Survey’s Geospatial Data Management System (GDMS).
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Europe’s third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth. The two Galileo satellites launched last October have reached their final orbital position and are in the midst of testing.http://www.asmmag.com/components/com_jce/editor/tiny_mce/plugins/article/img/readmore.png); “>The third Galileo Flight Model, known as FM3, transmitted its first test navigation signal in the E1 band on 1 December,
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has taken UK mapping to the next level by adding height information to Ordnance Survey’s digital maps. Using detailed 3D models Bluesky has added a range of height attributes to more than 50 million buildings. The height values attributed by Bluesky to the map layers would, if added together, reach almost to
