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Thursday, December 10th, 2015

imajing Mobile Mapping Solutions Deployed in Russia to Serve the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City “Roads”

December 10, 2015 — The State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City “Roads” is one of the leading organizations of road and communal services in Moscow City. It was created in 2011 by order of the Government of Moscow, and is now responsible of the complete maintenance, repairing and paving of roads and streets of Moscow

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

LandScan+ Combines The World’s Finest Population Distribution Data with Authoritative Infrastructure Data

Minneapolis – December 10, 2015 —  East View introduces a new value-added geospatial solution by combining authoritative infrastructure data with the award-winning LandScanTM Global Population Database.  

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Remote GeoSystems and Due North Aviation Announce Successful Implementation of the geoDVR Gen2 with SWEsystem 300 Gimbal Video Camera System for Airborne Utility Inspections

FORT COLLINS, Colorado / COLUMBUS, Ohio – Remote GeoSystems, Inc. and Due North Aviation are pleased to announce the successful implementation of the geoDVR Gen2 with a SWESystem 300 Gimbal Video Camera on a Bell Helicopter for Airborne Utility Line Inspections.

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Boundless Raises More Than $5M in Series B Funding Round

New York, NY – Dec. 10, 2015 — Boundless, the leading provider of open source “geospatial” software and services which use location-based mapping technology, today announced it has raised more than $5 million in Series B funding led by Motorola Solutions Venture Capital. Boundless’ existing investors, Vanedge Capital and In-Q-Tel, have participated in the round as

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Prof Sir Martin Sweeting Awarded Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Aeronautical Society

December 10, 2015 — Professor Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey, has been admitted to Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS).

Thursday, December 10th, 2015

SuperGIS Desktop Supports Italian Waste Management Organization

December 10, 2015 — The global GIS solution and software provider, Supergeo Technologies Inc. announces that ATO2 – Ancona, a regional waste management organization in Italy, has selected SuperGIS Desktop as their solution to process geospatial data.

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

Delegates Hail the First Capturing Reality Forum a Great Success!

December 9, 2015 — The first Capturing Reality Forum held in Salzburg, Austria from 23-25 November 2015, has been hailed a great success by its audience of international delegates and visitors; with its focus on the use of laser scanning, 3D imaging and LiDAR to support infrastructure development, BIM, transport, urban and coastal zone mapping,

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

MAPPS, NSPS Issue Call for Presentations for 2016 National Surveying and Mapping Conference

December 9, 2015 (Reston, VA) — MAPPS, the national association of private sector geospatial firms, and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS), the national voice of the professional surveying community, today issued a call for presentations for the 2nd Annual Surveying, Mapping and Geospatial Conference to be held March 14-18 at the Hilton Hotel in

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

Bluesky’s 3D Aerial Maps Inform Flood Risk Assessments for Planning Applications

Leicestershire, December 9, 2015 — Aerial photography and detailed 3D height models of the UK are being used to assess the risk of flooding, and help development projects progress through the planning process.  Working with Betts Hydro, part of engineering consultancy group Betts Associates, the geographic datasets from Bluesky are providing ground level information for use

Wednesday, December 9th, 2015

Finding the Right Address: a Matter of Life or Death

December 9, 2015 — An Ordnance Survey software pilot has helped save lives, so say the Community First Responders (CFRs ) who used it. The prototype mobile web app was used by a sample of CFRs from across the country over an eight week period. During this time the sample group were called out to 440