FGDC Endorses Iso Metadata And Data Quality Standards
The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Steering Committee endorsed INCITS/ISO 19115-1:2014 Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals and INCITS/ISO 19157:2013[2014] Geographic...
View ArticleTomTom Launches Traffic Data Sharing Tool For Cities And Mobility Stakeholders
omTom (TOM2) announced the launch of a new traffic cooperation tool to exchange traffic data with cities, road authorities and other mobility stakeholders. Designed with ease-of-use in mind, the Road...
View ArticleDigitalGlobe Foundation to Provide Students with Access to Hexagon Geospatial...
Hexagon Geospatial is excited to announce a partnership with the DigitalGlobe Foundation to invest in the future generation of geospatial technologists. The DigitalGlobe Foundation is a non-profit...
View ArticleTry something in 3D
Working in 3D can help you extend your 2D maps to communicate with a more human voice. You can present more realistic objects within the context of the real world, removing interpretation and driving...
View ArticleMacDonald Dettwiler Buying DigitalGlobe for $2.4 Billion
Canadian satellite technology firm MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd. agreed to acquire DigitalGlobe Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth C$3.1 billion ($2.4 billion), doubling the company’s size...
View ArticlePCI Geomatics Releases STAX for UAV
PCI Geomatics announced that it has released a new UAV image alignment and analysis tool: STAX. STAX provides simple to use automated tools for aligning and analyzing UAV imagery without the steep...
View ArticleSpatial Data Heats Up Business Apps
When spatial data and business data meet up in an integrated platform, business apps gain consumer-app functionality, like heat maps, bubble charts, and location-based data that we all know and love....
View ArticlePhilips taps Microsoft as part of indoor-positioning partnering push, adds...
With location-based services still stuck on the launchpad, the company's new “Location Lab” reaches out to data and app developers. Meanwhile, Philips finally acknowledges that Bluetooth, not just VLC,...
View ArticleCity of Boston Launches Situational Awareness Tool to Increase Safety,...
Mayor Martin J. Walsh today announced the City of Boston’s Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT), in partnership with the Boston Office of Emergency Management (OEM), has launched a...
View ArticleHexagon Geospatial and Huawei Team Up to Showcase Smart City Solutions at...
Hexagon Geospatial is announced that we will team up with Huawei to showcase solutions to support the development of Smart Cities at CeBIT2017 in Hannover, Germany.. ...continued ...
View ArticleReport: Automotive Navigation Landscape
The automotive navigation solutions landscape has changed from primarily hardware-centric to software and services focused over the last few years. Increasingly providers are offering cloud-based...
View ArticleEsri Will Donate Software to Fight Drug Addiction
National Institute of Justice Grant Winners Will Advance Mapping and Analytics to Combat the Opioid and Heroin Abuse Epidemic ...continued ...
View ArticleTop 10 Apple Maps Tips and Tricks
At one point or another, we’ll all have to travel to someplace unknown with the help of GPS. Thankfully, Apple’s own Maps application makes traveling much easier with its suite of navigation and...
View ArticleMaking Mapping More Human
St. Louis Map Room is a pop-up community space for map-making and dialogue around civic data. ...continued ...
View ArticleGITA Welcomes New Board Members
The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) is excited to welcome five new members to its Board of Directors. All five will serve as “at-large” members filling recent vacancies by...
View Article5 Steps To Digital Transformation Using GIS
Innovative use of out-of-the-box GIS technology is helping thousands of organisations to propel into the digital age. ...continued ...
View ArticleNGA’s CIBORG initiative enables $4.4M contract with VRICON for 3D modeling
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency contracted for $4.4 million in VRICON 3D high resolution data packages through an initiative with the General Services Administration, Feb. 10. “We are...
View ArticleEsri Teams with IBM to Offer Cutting-Edge Spatial Analytics to Developers in...
At this year's IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas, global spatial analytics leader Esri announced that it now works with IBM developers to broaden the customer experience by making Esri developer...
View ArticleTomTom HD Map For Autonomous Driving Now Covers Mainland Us Interstate Road...
TomTom announced it completed the expansion of its High Definition (HD) Map product to the entire mainland US interstate network, now covering over 115,000 miles of interstates and highways across the...
View ArticleApple Maps updated with proper Apple Park details and satellite imagery
Apple’s new Apple Park campus is officially set to open [April, 2017], and ahead of that, the company has recently updated Apple Maps with satellite imagery of the new campus and a proper description....
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