Monday, February 25th, 2013
TerraGo announced today its new Location Intelligence Platform at the Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC. The TerraGo platform is an enterprise-level software solution that combines open-source intelligence gathering with geospatial collaboration, enabling organizations to discover location intelligence from any source, integrate geospatial intelligence and deliver situational awareness to anyone, anywhere, in online and
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has adopted “Semantic annotations in OGC standards” as an OGC Best Practice.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Esri and DigitalGlobe recently updated the ArcGIS World Imagery basemap service with more than 10 million square kilometers of high-resolution aerial views. The World Imagery map is a free map service for ArcGIS users that contains quality contributions from Esri partners and the global GIS community. The World Imagery Map is one of several useful
Monday, February 25th, 2013
The Call for Abstracts has been extended through March 1, 2013 for The National Map Users Conference and Community for Data Integration Workshop. The joint 2013 The National Map Users Conference and Community for Data Integration Workshop will be held on May 21 – 24, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. The event will bring together scientists,
Monday, February 25th, 2013
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting at the Esri Federal User’s Conference this week in Washington, D.C. Among other geospatial software products, the company will showcase its free GeoViewer applications for viewing geospatial imagery and vector overlays stored on iPad, iPhone, iPad Touch and Android devices.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Third in Esri’s Mapping the Nation series, Mapping the Nation: Pioneering a New Platform for Government includes 133 full-color maps produced by more than 30 United States federal government agencies, including the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Senate. It demonstrates how government at the national level uses GIS to encourage citizen
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Specialist British GIS software developer Cadcorp, has announced the immediate availability of Web Map Layers for Insurance. The product brings together the location of both assets and hazards into a single geographic information system, and provides location intelligence in support of multiple business activities in insurance, notably sales, underwriting, customer service, and claims investigation.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
STRaND-1, a nanosatellite carrying a smartphone, has successfully launched into Space from India today. STRaND-1 will fly the world’s first smartphone in orbit and is the UK’s first CubeSat launched. The satellite flies a Google Nexus One smartphone, a new Linux-based high-speed processor and attitude & orbit control system, and two novel propulsion systems (8
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Blue Marble Geographics will be exhibiting at the upcoming Esri Federal User Conference in Washington D.C. Blue Marble will showcase Global Mapper and its newly enhanced LiDAR features including a significant improvement in the ability to load and classify massive amounts of LiDAR point cloud data, jumping from supporting files that contain tens of millions
Sunday, February 24th, 2013
Intergraph’s Geospatial World Tour is well underway, with hundreds experiencing the power of the Geospatial 2013 Portfolio firsthand. Geospatial 2013 is genuinely significant, going well beyond an incremental version release. It unites the ERDAS and GeoMedia product families into ONE streamlined suite, enabling you to exploit capabilities across products and disciplines spanning GIS, remote sensing,
