Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
DigitalGlobe today announced that Esri has licensed the rights for DigitalGlobe’s Global Basemap imagery layer. The announcement was made at the Esri International User Conference, occurring this week in San Diego, California. The imagery layer will be integrated into Esri’s existing imagery basemap in ArcGIS Online, Esri’s cloud-based mapping and collaborative content management system. Later
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Optech has been presented with two awards from the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX): the Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement Award, and the 532 Award. The Sebastian Sizgoric Technical Achievement
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Esri today announced that the City and County of Honolulu was awarded one of the company’s annual Making a Difference Awards. Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle was honored for his administration’s ground-breaking use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the city’s urban planning efforts.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Today TomTom unveils the latest version of its high volume batch geocoding web service launched in April. Geocoding converts addresses into geographic coordinates to enable rich location analysis. With this upgrade, the TomTom Global Geocoder extends our ability to help businesses make smart decisions.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Today, Esri announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to assist public and private agencies and communities around the world during disasters. Microsoft will display Esri public information maps on its cloud-based Disaster Response Incident Portal, as well as point citizens to the maps via its online outlets, such as MSN and Bing. Esri’s ArcGIS integration
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Esri today released Esri Maps for Office, a new analysis tool that allows business professionals to visualize data by creating and sharing interactive maps directly within Microsoft Office. Esri Maps for Office is a downloadable add-in for Microsoft Office 2010 that helps organizations make better decisions through location analytics.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
A powerful new partnership between Intergraph Government Solutions and Alvarez and Associates emerged within the federal geospatial landscape today. Alvarez and Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVO/SB) information technology company and Intergraph Government Solutions, the leading provider of engineering and geospatial software, announced a partnership to provide products and services
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial intelligence software, will preview its Mobile® for Android solution, as well as the recently acquired Geosemble GeoXray solution, at this week’s Esri International User Conference (UC) in San Diego.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
SPOT 6, the brand new Earth observation satellite built by Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, is now ready for launch. It will be transferred in the coming days from the Astrium Satellites facility in Toulouse (France) to the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India where it will be integrated with the PSLV launcher that
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
To keep pace with the growing demand for the latest map coverage of the United States, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has been building a national map series named the US Topo. Nearly 690 revised digital maps covering Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont have been added to approximately 51,000 maps currently covering
