Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO – Mapbox, the mapping and location platform for developers, today announced it has acquired Fitness AR, the augmented reality activity tracking app. Fitness AR creator Adam Debreczeni will join Mapbox to help build out a team of talented designers and developers, focused on showing the art of the possible to create practical AR
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
EarthSense Systems has published MappAir – the first ever high resolution nationwide map of air pollution. Combining data from satellites and its own air quality monitoring sensors together with open source data, EarthSense has used complex modelling techniques to create the highly accurate map. Initially available for the whole of the UK at 100 metre
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Redlands, California—Esri, the global leader in spatial analytics, today announced that it entered into an enterprise agreement with the intelligence program line of Airbus Defence and Space. With this new agreement in place, the core GIS will be expanded to meet Airbus’s pivotal mission of using creativity and innovation to address the massive economic, social,
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Dewberry has announced that the firm has become a member organization of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coalition. The USGS Coalition is an alliance of more than 80 organizations united by a commitment to the continued vitality of USGS and its ability to provide critical data and services to the nation. Throughout the year, the
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
LONDON – Drone Guarder, Inc. (OTCQB:DRNG) Drone Guarder (DG) is pleased to announce that we are partnering with Swellpro Ltd of China. After evaluating the existing drone supplier options, we have decided to use Swellpro as our drone supplier. The Swellpro drone offers patented design and technology. We visited with them a few weeks ago in Shenzhen China and
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
BOULDER, Colo.– Ball Aerospace has been selected by the U.S. Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to deliver the next-generation operational environmental satellite system, Weather System Follow-on – Microwave (WSF-M), for the Department of Defense (DoD). WSF-M is a predominantly fixed price contract that will provide for system design and risk reduction of
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
East View Geospatial (EVG) is pleased to announce an agreement with Kartverket, the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority, to offer digital nautical charts of Norwegian waters. This agreement expands upon the existing EVG-Kartverket partnership, allowing EVG to distribute GeoTIFF charts and S57 vector data in addition to EVG’s print-on-demand services for Kartverket charts. As Norway’s
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft Corp. is launching Azure Location Based Services to offer enterprise customers location capabilities. Azure Location Based Services are integrated directly into Azure, enabling enterprise customers to add Location Based Services to their existing Azure cloud solutions with the assurance that it meets Azure’s world- class standards of privacy, compliance, scalability, management
Monday, December 4th, 2017
REDLANDS, Calif.— Esri, the world leader in spatial analytics, today announced it will be donating personal use licenses of its ArcGIS software for each GISCorps volunteer who takes a GIS Service Pledge to volunteer for a good cause. GISCorps is a program of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) and has been providing
Monday, December 4th, 2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The GIS / Geotech EDU user community, in particular, higher learning, has been very active with Admin Tools for ArcGIS Online since the launch in 2015. In fact, the Geo EDU community is likely the most passionate and appreciative user base. To date, hundreds of High Schools, Colleges and Universities around the
