POBGeospatial Vet of 25 Years Joins Florida ASPRS BoardPOBZoltek — a licensed professional surveyor, certified photogrammetrist and geographic information systems (GIS) professional with more than 25 years of geospatial experience — holds active photogrammetry and surveying certifications in 24 states, and ...

Cape Analytics Expands Its Geospatial Property Data For Insurance ...Business Wire (press release)Today, Cape Analytics, provider of the most accurate and up-to-date structured property data for insurers and reinsurers, is announcing the geographic.and more »

Shephard MediaCloud hangs over geospatial intelligenceShephard MediaTextron Systems has seen strong military interest in the latest version of its cloud-based geospatial intelligence product, with a number of defence analysts evaluating the software, and the company is planning to release a new update soon. RVcloud is ...and more »

San Antonio Business JournalUS intelligence agency looks for business partners for big data in SASan Antonio Business JournalThis federal agency has historical satellite data collected before Google Maps was even conceived and it wants to connect with regional businesses that have machine learning algorithms to make sense of it.and more »

Gainesville TimesUNG to add new geospatial technology programs through grantGainesville TimesUniversity of North Georgia students should gain more opportunities in the growing field of geospatial technology through a new 3-year $609,739 National Science Foundation grant designed to start two new programs on the Gainesville campus. The grant ...

SpaceNewsHarris working on $500 million contract to improve geospatial ...SpaceNewsKaren Thomas (left), Harris Corp's chief Geographic Information Systems strategist, demonstrates the company's capabilities to National Geospatial-Intelligence ...and more »

C4ISR & NetworksCan partnership overhaul geospatial intelligence?C4ISR & NetworksWhether for the purposes of collecting and sorting through volumes of data, providing better on-the-ground mapping intelligence, or to boost national security altogether, working across departments, agencies and industries clearly will be key to ...

SpaceNewsNew administration, Congress present opportunities for National System for Geospatial IntelligenceSpaceNewsSAN ANTONIO, Texas — After years of relatively flat budgets, the Republican-controlled Congress and Trump administration might support increased spending for federal defense, intelligence and civil agency programs focused on geospatial intelligence, ...$500 Million NGA Contract to Improve Geospatial DatabasePOBHarris Corporation Awarded $500 Million Geospatial Software […]

SpaceNewsDescartes unveils geospatial machine-learning platformSpaceNewsWith Descartes Labs' GeoVisual Search, if a user clicks on ships in a Marina, GVS processes satellite and aerial imagery in the cloud to identify similar objects around the world. Users can also use geographic or temporal parameters to confine the GVS ...

SpaceNewsDigitalGlobe adding Radarsat imagery to geospatial big data platformSpaceNewsSAN ANTONIO, Texas — DigitalGlobe announced plans June 5 to augment its cloud-based geospatial big data platform, GBDX, with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from Radarsat-2, a satellite launched in 2007 by the Canadian Space Agency and ...MDA RADARSAT-2 data to be available on DigitalGlobe's ... - CNWCanada […]

KTOOJuneau makes collection of property mapping data easier to access onlineKTOOIt's been about a year since the City & Borough of Juneau made reams land, property and mapping data readily available to the public through a web-based application. In the past year, conservationists, landscape architects and second-grade teachers are ...

HuffPostThe Clash of the Supermarket TitansHuffPost[As President of Map Business Online, a business mapping intelligence mapping tool, I was interested in how this Clash of Titans could be visualized on a business map. Using mapping software with business data overlaid on top of the map is a great way ...

Inside HousingHow data is transforming housingInside HousingOne of the first functions to go live was a single web mapping system encompassing all of Sovereign's 56,000 properties and 10,000 land 'bundles'. GIS, Mr Bradley says, has helped in decision-making around where new divisional areas should be, with ...

Golf.comA 10-year-old created yardage books for this week's Web.com tour eventGolf.comLast year Damsgard started a Kickstarter campaign to fund his course-mapping endeavors, which raised nearly $1,000. After touring the Panther Creek with his father this week, Seth has his eyes set on an Arnold Palmer and Annika Sorenstam design near ...and more »

Simple GIS Software Releases Simple GIS Server 3.2 with Improved WMS Support for Publishing Simple GIS Client ...GISuser.com (press release)Version 3.2 improves on serving maps created with the Simple GIS Client application as a Web Mapping Application. Simple GIS Server allows you to set up a Web Mapping Service (WMS) literally within minutes. Users can […]

Wealden District Council updates retired GIS with Cadcorp cloud-hosted solutionGISuser.com (press release)WDC approached Cadcorp via the G-Cloud framework on the Digital Marketplace and contracted for supply of a corporate GIS with fully hosted web mapping and spatial database server. This option incorporates Cadcorp's off-the-shelf product Web Map ...

PR Newswire (press release)DSi Mobile Now Supports Google MapsPR Newswire (press release)UPLAND, Calif., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Dispatching Solutions, Inc. has announced that the upcoming release of the DSi Mobile platform will utilize the Google Maps Engine as its core mapping technology. Switching to the engine will provide DSi ...and more »

Financial PostCanadians hold their own Day of the Dead to share their blundersFinancial PostWill Cadell, CEO of digital-mapping firm Sparkgeo, said his firm is always looking for ways to improve web maps. So when he designed an analytics tool to track how clients use digital maps, he thought raising R&D funds would be easy. “We […]

Jibestream Announces Support for Google and Apple Indoor MapsCanada NewsWire (press release)TORONTO, June 20, 2017 /CNW/ -- Jibestream, the premier indoor mapping platform provider, announced today support for GeoJSON open standard format ...and more »

InverseThis 20-Year-Old Designs Some of the Internet's Best MapsInverseFor a few years, between early childhood in adolescence, he stopped mapping. But in high school he picked back up again, tackling a high schooler's favorite topic — snow days — in a new, visually stimulating way. The map showed the amount of snowfall ...

Engadget'Titanfall 2' DLC adds another weapon slot and new maps on June 27thEngadgetBut the War Games DLC has another throwback: The titular map returns from the original game, a TRON-esque simulated battlezone with plenty of elevated panels and surfaces to wallrun around. There's also the new map Traffic for the intense small-area ...Titanfall 2 is Getting […]

The GuardianSnapchat's new map feature raises fears of stalking and bullyingThe GuardianSnapchat has introduced a map feature that lets users track other people's location in real time, raising concerns among safety and privacy advocates. Snap Maps, launched this week, plots users and their snaps onto a map so friends and other ...Police issue child safety […]

The SunDanger maps reveal where the next major health pandemic like ...The SunBats are the mammals most likely to infect humans with potentially killer viruses, like Ebola.and more »

ChronicleLiveDrunk student followed Google maps onto A1 before he was struck ...ChronicleLiveAskar Abilpanov, a Durham University student from Kazakhstan was walking along the A1 when he was killed by the lorry.and more »

Wall Street Journal (subscription)From Music to Maps, How Apple's iPhone Changed BusinessWall Street Journal (subscription)From Music to Maps, How Apple's iPhone Changed Business. Apple's iPhone gave rise to whole new industries and laid waste to others. As the device turns 10, we take stock of its impact on everything from cameras to telecoms. By. Betsy […]

CNETGoogle Maps dismissed as 'unreliable' by Indian governmentCNETThe country's mapping and surveying agency, Survey of India, urged citizens to stop relying on Google Maps and Google Earth, saying neither has been authenticated by the government, reported Business Standard. To encourage this, the SoI made its own ...Indian government calls Google Maps unreliable, wants citizens to use […]

BBC NewsDanger map reveals health threat zoneBBC NewsSouth America is a hotbed of potential viruses that could be the next major threat to the world's health, according to "danger maps". The EcoHealth Alliance in New York looked at mammals, the viruses they harbour and how they come into contact with people.and more »

The GuardianGoogle Maps adds indigenous lands in Canada after long omissionThe GuardianMore than 3,000 parcels of land belonging to indigenous peoples in Canada have been added to Google Maps and Google Earth, in an initiative that seeks to remedy what one First Nations cartographer described as a historical exclusion. The project ...3,000 indigenous lands in […]

Business InsiderSnapchat's new maps feature shows you where your friends areBusiness InsiderA new feature announced on Wednesday called Snap Map will let the app's 166 million users share their locations with each other, according to a company blog post. A trailer for the feature shows two women browsing a map in Snapchat and tapping on […]

My Fox BostonMissing teens left behind messages, maps before disappearing on boat trip to BahamasMy Fox BostonJUPITER, Fla. - The day before Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen rode out from the Jupiter Inlet to the Atlantic Ocean in July 2015 for what would be the last time, the boys messaged at least one friend to […]