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Low-Code/No-Code Mapping
Location-aware apps can now be created with almost no coding expertise. Is this the next frontier in mobile GIS? When authorities at the Ara Hīkoi Aotearoa, New Zealand’s Walking Access Commission, needed to revamp the country’s web-based maps, they knew that they had to build a handy and more user-friendly alternative for their hiking patrons. ...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/07/23
TDI-Brooks Completes Shallow Water Geotechnical Coring Project Off Us East Coast FARO Technologies Appoints Peter Lau as President and Chief Executive Officer WGIC Welcomes Nominations for DEI Trailblazer Awards 2023 Topcon Acquired Finnish Industrial Radio Solutions Leader Satel Leica Introduces Hybrid Imaging and Lidar Sensor for Large-Area Mapping Experience the Trimble Community in Action in...
The Flow of Information
Looking Forward I remember years ago in the dial-up days of the Internet how all the IT people were talking about the coming “information superhighway” that would change life as we know it. And, as much as simple minds like mine couldn’t fathom it, they were right. Information came at us like a Porsche convoy...
Unwritten Rights
Legal Boundaries Misnomer or Misconception A misnomer is “a wrong name or inappropriate designation,” the “use of a wrong or inappropriate name.” (Webster’s) Otherwise stated, “a misnomer is a particular kind of mistake in labeling.” (Google) A misconception, on the other hand, is a “wrong or inaccurate idea or conception.” (Webster’s) Another way of phrasing...
Ocean Mapping Effort Makes Progress
Two new partnerships will advance Seabed 2030’s mission to map the entire ocean floor this decade Since ancient Egyptians began studying the Nile River, bathymetry has been the crucial component in hydrography. The great river gave rise to their great civilization, providing fertile soil for farming, water for irrigation, and a means of transportation...
Out of Sight; Not Out of Mind
Cities are now creating their own subsurface utility maps to manage their underground assets. But the lack of an open-based geospatial model means that data are often not interoperable. A new mapping standard aims to fix that. In the years since 2004 when a leaking gas pipeline exploded in Ghislenghien, an industrial town in Belgium,...
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