Wednesday, August 24th, 2016
Open-source mapping company Mapbox acquires passive fitness app-maker Human for its anonymized data | MobiHealthNews San Francisco-based Mapbox, an open-source mapping platform, has acquired fitness-tracking app Human, which allows users to track activity all day and aggregates the data anonymously to create information about cities. Human is a passive app with a simple goal: move
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Australia has recently announced a 1.8m shift in its mapping coordinates, to compensate for the country’s 7.5cm shift north each year. Inevitably the question is why, and could the same thing happen here? In Australia, the shift is to take into account the growing difference between maps (and the coordinate reference system they’re based on)
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Fort Collins, CO – Red Hen Systems (RHS), LLC, today announced a new release, isWhere 3.1.0, a media mapping add-on tool for viewing geotagged imagery on Google Earth™. isWhere 3.1.0 is for professionals and enthusiasts who want a quick, straightforward, affordable way to view, analyze, compare and organize geotagged videos and their corresponding track logs. New
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Today Pix4D announces its first hybrid processing solution: this week, users of Sequoia with a license of Pix4Dmapper Ag will be able to process both locally in Pix4Dmapper Ag and on the Pix4Dcloud. Together with this announcement, Pix4D also introduces very flexible monthly (149 USD) and yearly (1490 USD) plans for its Pix4Dmapper Ag solutions.
Friday, July 8th, 2016
Graz, Austria and Lokeren, Belgium, July 8, 2016 — Vexcel Imaging has signed an agreement with Orbit GT as a new Reseller of Orbit GT Oblique, Mobile Mapping and Indoor Mapping software products. Alexander Wiechert, CEO of Vexcel Imaging, is looking forward to the partnership: “After the first meeting with the Orbit GT team, we immediately
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
A district council in West Sussex is using GIS and web mapping technology from British software developer Cadcorp, to power a range of internal and public-facing geospatial applications. When Arun District Council (ADC) was informed by its software supplier that the internet and intranet GIS products it was using were nearing end-of-life and would no
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) – Caliper is excited to announce the release of nine new 2016 Country Packages for its Maptitude mapping software. Maptitude Country Packages bring the power and flexibility of our Maptitude product suite to a global audience and enable our customers to make geo-location based decisions internationally. The 2016 Country Packages include 4th
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Autonomous vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure mapping companies can now bring disparate LiDAR data sets together into one super massive point cloud with no control points allowing for rapid and inexpensive regional scale mapping Civil Maps has completed a major milestone in the drive for rapid regional and continental scale mapping. Using its proprietary artificial intelligence
Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
The European Union called on IGN FI in October 2012 for a project to rework Mali’s 1/200,000 scale national topographic map, create derived projects and services and modernize the Geographic Institute of Mali (IGM). This project, financed by means of the 10th EDF (European Development Funds) has a dual objective: – Creating a national reference
Friday, June 10th, 2016
NEWTON MA (USA) – Recent news coverage highlights the value that Maptitude brings to organizations. Maptitude mapping software has been featured in Directions Magazine as part of their Geospatial on a Budget series. Due to popular demand, Maptitude has a dedicated installment that features real user feedback and emphasizes the robustness of the software. In the words
