Monday, May 13th, 2019
MONTREAL – MDA, a Maxar company (NYSE: MAXR) (TSX: MAXR), has been awarded an initial contract value of CAD $39 million with Public Services and Procurement Canada. The initial contract includes the development and manufacturing of 10 flight-ready Search and Rescue/Global Positioning System (SAR/GPS) repeaters to be launched on the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III
Monday, May 13th, 2019
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – AgJunction Inc. (TSX: AJX), the Autosteering Company™ (“AgJunction”), announced today that it is partnering with Swift Navigation to develop near-autonomous small tractor solutions for agricultural applications with high accuracy and at a reasonable price point. This partnership will combine autosteering technology pioneered by AgJunction and the Duro® RTK GNSS receiver from Swift Navigation. The
Monday, May 13th, 2019
DES PLAINES, Ill.– Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a not-for-profit insurance corporation that provides insurance protection to Florida policyholders who are entitled to but are unable to find property insurance coverage in the private market, joins the Geospatial Intelligence Center (GIC), an insurance industry consortium spearheaded by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). As the GIC’s newest
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Portland, OR – Today, The Wild announced two new features for their cloud-based immersive collaboration platform. The Wild enables architecture and design teams to experience design together, in real time, from anywhere in the world. Now, these teams can ideate and collaborate on spatial design even more effectively with two new features—video support and a
Monday, May 13th, 2019
SAN DIEGO – Chris Dusseault, Claudia Mowery and Brandon Suarez of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI) were honored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) with awards for outstanding contributions to aerospace at an event on May 9th. GA-ASI is a leading employer in the San Diego area and manufacturer of Remotely
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Bruchsal, Germany – GfK has released updated map editions for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with coverage of hundreds of changes to administrative and postcode regions. Up-to-date digital maps are the basis for carrying out accurate geographic analyses in geomarketing software and BI systems. GfK’s digital maps for Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been updated to
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Engineering Reports and demonstration videos documenting the outcomes and achievements of its Vector Tiles Pilot have been published and are freely available. The Vector Tiles Pilot ran from July 2018 to February 2019 and aimed to advance an OGC approach to encode and publish
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Berlin – UP42 , a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, today launches an open platform and marketplace dedicated to helping developers and startups build, run, and scale geospatial products. UP42 opens up access to geospatial data, imagery, and processing algorithms — allowing users to develop, launch, and monetise game-changing new products. Examples of UP42’s ready-to-use algorithms
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
STONEHAM, Mass.: EZMaxMobile customers can now utilize enhanced mapping functionality. The new mapping feature allows you to: Align Mobile, Maximo and Mapping: Maximo data is displayed right on your map. View all information in one place from your mobile device. Integrate with ESRI’s ArcGIS Server: View custom base maps, feature layers and feature data directly
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO and MELBOURNE, Australia – Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm building centimeter-accurate GNSS technology and a cloud-based GNSS Corrections Service to power a world of autonomous vehicles, announced that it has opened an office in the Central Business District of Melbourne, Australia. This new location is in close proximity to the University
