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Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Geospatial & Engineering International Conference Postponed

Statement from MAPPS Executive Director John Palatiello on the Gesopatial and Engineering International Conference: I regret to inform you that due to the extended government shutdown, we have postponed the Geospatial & Engineering International Conference until 2014. Even with the government opening this week, the shutdown has had an adverse affect on our ability to

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

LizardTech to Host MrSID User Group Meeting in Austin

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is taking its products on the road. LizardTech will present at a “MrSID User Group Meeting” on Tuesday, October 22 at the Commons Learning Center in Austin, TX to show the geospatial community how compressing, manipulating and distributing aerial and satellite imagery with

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Astrium Services Releases WorldDEM Sample Data

  Astrium, world’s second-ranking space company, has released the first WorldDEM™ sample data sets for evaluation purposes, enabling potential customers to begin testing data for varied applications including line-of-sight analysis, 3D visualisation or orthorectfication of satellite imagery.

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

DigitalGlobe Accepts Unsolicited Offer for a New Location

DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions, today announced that it has finalized a lease for a new headquarters location in Westminster, Colo.

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Google Launches Media Tools Aimed at Journalists

Google Media Tools combines a number of data visualization capabilities, including Google Maps, with advanced search and social media outreach of Google+ to help journalists enhance their newsgathering and storytelling.

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

Blue Marble Releases Fully Managed Version of GeoCalc SDK

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of a fully managed .NET version of the GeoCalc 6.6 software development kit (SDK). Now .NET developers can get all of the accuracy and power of the GeoCalc toolkit in a fully managed .NET control.  Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Air Pollution Still Harming Health Across Europe

Around 90 % of city dwellers in the European Union (EU) are exposed to one of the most damaging air pollutants at levels deemed harmful to health by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This result comes from the latest assessment of air quality in Europe, published by the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

1Spatial Becomes an Oracle Exadata Reseller

  1Spatial, an ICT provider and a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced today that it has achieved reselling rights for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, an engineered system designed to achieve maximum performance at minimal cost.

Monday, October 14th, 2013

Learn to Validate Data Quality with Esri Technology

Your organization needs accurate geographic information system (GIS) data. ArcGIS Data Reviewer software from Esri gives you the ability to validate the integrity of that data automatically.

Friday, October 11th, 2013

Tuck Mapping Integrates Leica RCD30 Camera with Applanix POSTrack

Leica Geosystems Inc. today announced that Tuck Mapping Solutions Inc. has completed the first integration of a Leica RCD30 airborne camera with the Applanix POSTrack system. With technical support from Leica Geosystems and Applanix, Tuck Mapping contracted Lead’Air Inc. of Kissimmee, Fla., to perform most of the software upgrades and new cabling required to integrate