Thursday, December 9th, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, has announced it has been awarded a contract to deliver a GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) Aerial processing system to an undisclosed aerial surveying firm. The GXL Aerial system will allow the customer to orthorectify and mosaic thousands of UltraCam images per day through the power
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Garmin International Inc. today announced the creation of OpenCaching.com, a completely free online community for creating, sharing and finding geocaches around the world. An exciting and engaging outdoor activity, geocaching combines exploration, education, entertainment and recreation. At OpenCaching.com, everyone can enjoy all of the caches and helpful information – the tips, descriptions, previous attempts, mass
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Improvements in address data quality are likely to be recorded in the public sector as a result of the launch of the National Address Gazetteer Database (NAGD). The intention of the database is to provide “one definitive source of accurate publicly-owned spatial address data”, with the information being collected and collated from local authorities and
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Steering Committee recently approved the GDI object catalog Flanders xGRAB well as a technical regulation to the CRAB specifications. XGRAB It is a system that will enable municipalities to address from a local file on a regular basis to exchange the AGIV. Municipalities that currently have an address database maintained and not immediately want to make use
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
DeLorme announced that Mike Heffron has been named President and Chief Executive Officer, effective January 4, 2011. Heffron also will serve on the Board of Directors. He will be the first person to hold the office of CEO other than Company founder and owner David DeLorme, who will continue as Chairman of the Board of
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Skanska’s new business plan up to 2015 will focus on profitable growth. One of the areas with the best growth potential and in which Skanska plans to invest the most in coming years is residential development. The goal is to sharply increase the number of residential development projects in Skanska’s existing markets and to assume the
Thursday, December 9th, 2010
NASA will deliver a keynote titled “NASA World Wind: Infrastructure for Spatial Data” at the COM.Geo 2011 conference in Washington, DC May 23th – 25th, 2011. The world has great need for analysis of Earth observation data, be it climate change, carbon monitoring, disaster response, national defense or simply local resource management. To best provide
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Esri has released an updated version of its ArcGIS for iOS app. In addition to using the app to discover and explore maps, find places and addresses, and query map layers and data, users can now collect and update geographic information system (GIS) information directly from their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch devices.The app lets users
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
Leica Geosystems announces the exclusive distribution of RealityLINx® Model 5.4 – powered by Leica point cloud Engine (pcE) technology. RealityLINx Model 5.4 speeds and simplifies the processing of as-built laser scans into intelligent models that feed into popular 3D plant design software and into INOVx plant asset management software.Leica pcE makes RealityLINx Model more powerful
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
For the 2010 census, the US Census Bureau used ERDAS’ server-based technologies for timely updating of their integrated national mapping and address system. In 2007, the Census Bureau began implementing ERDAS ADE to provide a real-time, interactive web editing solution based on the Oracle Spatial 10g/11g topology model. The project, named Geographic ADE-based Topological Real-time
