Monday, July 11th, 2016
Ordnance Survey (OS) and CompeGPS are pleased to announce a new partnership to release a range of outdoor activity GPS units. The exciting move is being made ahead of the leading international trade fair, the OutDoor Show in Friedrichshafen, where the new GPS units will be unveiled for the first time. As leading brands in their
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Redlands, California —In its inaugural edition of “The Business Insider 100: The Creators,” Business Insider has named Esri cofounders Jack and Laura Dangermond among the top 100 business visionaries creating value for the world. They are joined on the list by leaders from established businesses such as Apple, General Motors, and Ikea, as well as upstarts
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
Geospatial information sciences (GIS) can help determine where diseases are spreading and where to target the resources needed to stop them, but spatial data isn’t widely used for health decision-making in many developing countries. That lack generated the idea for a recently published UT Dallas study to identify — and ultimately remove — barriers to
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Redlands, California —Esri, the world’s leading mapping platform company,continues to foster industry innovation and development of novel approaches to the world’s most difficult challenges. The company’s unique Startup Program enables the most promising emerging businesses to incorporate location analytics into their services and solutions. By providing access to Esri’s flagship ArcGIS platform at no cost, selected startups
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Attendees of the Esri User Conference are among the first to experience Insights for ArcGIS, a data analysis application that marks a milestone in the evolution of GIS. “Insights for ArcGIS represents not just an evolutionary step, but perhaps a revolutionary one,” said Bern Szukalksi, Esri’s tech evangelist. “It empowers anyone
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Redlands, California — Fresh out of beta, Drone2Map for ArcGIS was released today by Esri with new features and enhancements. The desktop app allows people to process images from drones and quickly create imagery products for mapping, analysis, and sharing across the ArcGIS platform. “Novices and experts alike can use Drone2Map to process still imagery captured
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
REDLANDS, Calif.- This week, Esri presented Pinellas County, Florida, with the 2016 Enterprise GIS Award for innovating a smart community governance model. That model fulfilled county initiatives to build a public GIS with apps that benefit the community. One of those apps used Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) open data to save property owners $5.3
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Supergeo Technologies is pleased to announce that SuperSurv, the multifunctional mobile GIS software was earlier selected by the DREAL of Alsace to collect spatial data. Integrated by three different departments and established in 2010, the DREAL of Alsace is the regional environmental authority of Alsace, France. Its mission is to ensure the sustainable development of
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
SAN DIEGO, Calif.— SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today unveiled SAP® Geographical Enablement Framework, powered by SAP HANA®, which helps organizations enrich business applications with geographic data from geographic information systems (GIS), such as Esri ArcGIS. This announcement was made at the Esri User Conference being held June 27–July 1 in San Diego. “In many asset-intensive
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., June 28, 2016 – 43 major hydrant recalls have been issued since 1999, affecting hundreds of thousands of these critical fire fighting devices- but almost half have never been inspected or repaired to resolve the offending problem. The main reason: municipalities nationwide often do not know specifically where these faulty hydrants
