Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
A team developing ideas for future products and services at Ordnance Survey has created a map of Great Britain in the popular Minecraft video game, featuring 22 billion blocks, using their freely available digital map products in OS OpenData, and made it available for download as a new Minecraft world.
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Esri Press has released the fifth edition of Thinking About GIS: Geographic Information System Planning for Managers. This seminal book on planning and implementing a geographic information system (GIS) is authored by Dr. Roger Tomlinson, widely recognized as “the father of GIS.”
Monday, September 23rd, 2013
Astrium, Europe’s leading space technology company, has been selected by the UK Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to provide sophisticated mapping and monitoring services for its new electronic monitoring program. Selected as preferred bidder for the contract, Astrium Services teams based in Far.nborough, Hampshire, will provide the mapping and monitoring expertise to enable the movements of
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
Analysis of the causes of massive flooding in the Far East should lead to a revision of the legislation in order to declassify topographic information and enable access of volunteers to work in emergency zones. Such an opinion was voiced up by the participants of the round table in the “Parliamentskaya gazeta”, which discussed the
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Though water levels on the South Platte River were receding, muddy brown waters were still out of the river’s banks near Greeley, Colorado, on September 17, 2013, when the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image. At the time, the river was more than six feet above flood stage, down
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Technology enthusiasts Shel Israel, CEO of SI Associates, and Robert Scoble, startup liaison for open cloud computing company Rackspace, will share their knowledge of how location-based data is changing the tech world and global conceptions of privacy during a joint keynote presentation Oct. 14 at GEOINT 2013 in Tampa, Fla.
Friday, September 20th, 2013
1Spatial, the spatial big data company which manages some of the world’s largest spatial data, and a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), today announced it has achieved OPN Specialized status for Oracle Spatial.
Friday, September 20th, 2013
Building a successful career in geographic information systems (GIS) is not achieved overnight and requires time, preparation and a systematic approach to developing professional credentials and experience. American Sentinel University’s new e-book, ‘Five Steps to Build Your GIS Career,’ offers insight about why it’s so important for GIS students to develop their professional credentials through
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 15. This major release includes many powerful updates along with a new extension interface that provides add-on functionality capabilities including the COAST tool and a new LiDAR Module. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
For the first time, all of Iceland’s glaciers are shown on a single map, produced by the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), in collaboration with the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Iceland Geosurvey. The map is the first to incorporate historical data and coverage from aerial photographs and remote sensing satellites, such as Landsat and
