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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
Getting to Know ArcGIS for Desktop, Third Edition, from Esri Press, is a fundamental workbook for GIS beginners that introduces the underlying principles of GIS within the context of a structured ArcGIS lesson plan. Originally published in 2001, this best-selling textbook has been enhanced for ArcGIS 10.1 compatibility and offers many new graphics and discussions
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that The SI Organization, Inc. (the SI) has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level. The SI delivers integrated geospatial data, innovative products and mission solutions to global markets.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
Esri Canada today announced that the company has joined the elite rank of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. The company was selected over hundreds of Canadian private companies that applied to this prestigious national award program sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC, National Post, Queen’s School of Business and MacKay CEO Forums. Esri Canada has enjoyed steady year-over-year
Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of remote sensing and photogrammetric software and systems, announced today that its Freeview software has been downloaded for the 60,000th time! Freeview continues to be a very popular tool for viewing imagery and GIS data and offers a surprising amount of functionality for a broad spectrum of people interested in
Monday, February 25th, 2013
TerraGo announced today its new Location Intelligence Platform at the Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC. The TerraGo platform is an enterprise-level software solution that combines open-source intelligence gathering with geospatial collaboration, enabling organizations to discover location intelligence from any source, integrate geospatial intelligence and deliver situational awareness to anyone, anywhere, in online and
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted “Semantic annotations in OGC standards” as an OGC Best Practice.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Esri and DigitalGlobe recently updated the ArcGIS World Imagery basemap service with more than 10 million square kilometers of high-resolution aerial views. The World Imagery map is a free map service for ArcGIS users that contains quality contributions from Esri partners and the global GIS community. The World Imagery Map is one of several useful
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Third in Esri’s Mapping the Nation series, Mapping the Nation: Pioneering a New Platform for Government includes 133 full-color maps produced by more than 30 United States federal government agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Senate. It demonstrates how government at the national level uses GIS to encourage citizen
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Specialist British GIS software developer Cadcorp, has announced the immediate availability of Web Map Layers for Insurance. The product brings together the location of both assets and hazards into a single geographic information system, and provides location intelligence in support of multiple business activities in insurance, notably sales, underwriting, customer service, and claims investigation.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
STRaND-1, a nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has successfully launched into Space from India today. STRaND-1 will fly the world’s first smartphone in orbit and is the UK’s first CubeSat launched. The satellite flies a Google Nexus One smartphone, a new Linux-based high-speed processor and attitude & orbit control system, and two novel propulsion systems (8
