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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

The OGC Technical Committee Returns to the UK for the First Time in 15 Years

1Spatial is proud to announce its participation in the forthcoming Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee (TC) meeting in Exeter from 18th-21st June, followed by the OGC and Association for Geographic Information (AGI) co-hosted Interoperability Day on 22nd June.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

GeoEye Expands Tampa Office to Address the U.S. Military’s Growing Demand for Geospatial Predictive Analytics

GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced the expansion of its Tampa office to support the growing demand for its services across the U.S. military. This growing presence builds on the tremendous success GeoEye customers have had using its advanced analytic assessments to discover geospatial patterns that allow our warfighters and

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

MAPPS Announces Program for 30th Anniversary Summer Conference to be Held July 10-14

MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association for private sector geospatial firms, announces a first-class business, technical, education and market opportunity program for its 30th anniversary Summer Conference, to be held July 10-14 at the Viceroy Snowmass Resort in Snowmass, CO.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Bluesky Maps Solar Potential for London Fire

Aerial mapping company Bluesky has completed a project to assess the potential for solar energy generation at over one hundred London Fire Brigade premises.  The brigade commissioned the solar suitability reports in order to address spiralling energy costs and reduce carbon emissions.  Using the latest aerial photography and 3D computer models Bluesky has assessed the

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

COM.Geo 2012 Keynote: A Promising Future of Computing for Geospatial Technologies

Dr. Lindi Liao, President & Chief Scientist at COM.Geo, COM.Geo Conference General Chair,  will deliver a keynote “A Promising Future of Computing for Geospatial Technologies” at COM.Geo 2012 conference which will be held on July 1-3, Washington, DC.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 4.0 for Adobe Photoshop

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager version 4.0 for Adobe Photoshop. This release provides long-awaited support for the latest Adobe Photoshop release, CS6, as well as a number of new and exciting product enhancements.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Trimble Acquires GEOTrac to Extend PeopleNet’s Transportation and Logistics Solutions

Trimble announced today that it has acquired privately-held GEOTrac Systems Inc. of Calgary, a leading provider of wireless fleet management and worker safety solutions for the oil and gas industry. The addition of GEOTrac is expected to extend PeopleNet’s industry-leading transportation solutions to address the North American oil and gas industry. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Monday, June 11th, 2012

ArcGIS 10.1 Simplifies Sharing of Geographic Information

ArcGIS 10.1, the highly anticipated update to ArcGIS, is now available. The new release puts mapping and geospatial analytics into the hands of more people than ever—even those with no geographic information system (GIS) expertise. ArcGIS is a complete system for designing and managing solutions with geographic knowledge.

Friday, June 8th, 2012

NOAA Commissions High-tech Coastal Mapping Ship in Norfolk, Va.

NOAA today commissioned a state-of-the-art coastal mapping vessel, NOAA Ship Ferdinand R. Hassler, during a special ceremony at NOAA’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va. The new ship’s primary mission will be to detect and monitor changes to the sea floor. Data collected by the ship will be used to update nautical charts, detect potential

Friday, June 8th, 2012

INTERGEO 2012: Cloud Computing will Dominate the GIS Environment

Cloud computing is on everyone’s lips. And the same goes for INTERGEO, which is taking place from 9 to 11 October 2012 in Hanover, Germany. The leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management will show that the key topics at INTERGEO, such as capturing, processing, archiving and presenting data can be made