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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

OpenGeo Launches Mapmeter Public Beta

OpenGeo, the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, is excited to announce a full public beta of its new server analytics console while at FOSS4G-North America 2013. The product, formerly known as “The Enterprise Console,” is now Mapmeter, a full administration and management tool for analyzing GeoServer systems.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

NASA’s Landsat Satellite Looks for a Cloud-Free View

For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Russia diverted its feeder rivers in the 1960s. Scientists studying the Aral Sea’s changing ecology and retreating shoreline have looked to

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

The National Map Corps – Volunteers Receive Recognition

Citizen volunteers are making significant additions to the U.S. Geological Survey’s ability to provide accurate information to the public. Using crowd sourcing techniques, the USGS project known as The National Map Corps (TNMC) encourages citizen volunteers to collect manmade structure data in an effort to provide accurate and authoritative spatial map data for the National

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

Blue Marble Releases Global Mapper 14.2 with Many New Scripting Tools

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Mapper version 14.2. This update to the company’s popular desktop GIS software offers many new and improved features and functions. Some of the major improvements include several scripting updates, improved Volume Measurement tools, new right-click option to the vector data Search dialog, many LiDAR

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

OpenGeo Announces New Appointments to Senior Management

OpenGeo the world’s leading commercial open source geospatial company, is promoting key team members Juan Marin, Tim Schaub, and Justin Deoliveira to new roles within the company. Marin has been named chief technology officer, OpenGeo CEO Eddie Pickle said in making the announcement, while Schaub and Deoliveira assume Vice President positions in OpenGeo’s industry-leading software

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

The Russian “Kosmosnimki” Global Map of Fires Now in Testing

The global map of fires, detected as a result of operational satellite-based monitoring in now being tested in beta-mode on the SFMS service “Kosmosnimki – Fires”. Now the updated information about fire situation in any region of our plant is available. This was made possible due to the integration of the FIRMS information system data

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Worldwatch Institute’s State of the World 2013 Explores New Ways to Measure Sustainability

As the world continues down the path of unmitigated and unsustainable development, it is becoming increasingly clear that we have successfully pushed ourselves out of the stable geological era of the Holocene and into the more volatile and unpredictable Anthropocene. Nevertheless, many remain blissfully unaware of this truth due to the fact that ecosystem thresholds

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Ordnance Survey Staff Raise £9,000 for the Red & White Appeal

This week, Staff at Ordnance Survey presented Southampton Hospital Charity’s Red & White Appeal with a £9,000 donation, after 12 months of fundraising activities.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Bluesky Launches Online Map Shop

UK aerial mapping company Bluesky has launched its biggest ever online map shop. Providing easy and cost effective access to hundreds of thousands of aerial photographs the Bluesky MapShop offers a range of purchase options including GIS ready digital image files and hardcopy photographic prints. The new Bluesky MapShop also provides access to a national

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Photoshop

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and the popular PDF Maps mobile app, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 4.2 for Adobe Photoshop. New formats are supported, including writing to the DEM TIFF format which saves raw DEM values and exporting web tiles to Google Maps or