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Maptime co-founder Alan McConchie (back, left) teaches Tilemill 1 and 2 at a Maptime meetup at Stamen’s offices in 2014. Credit: Christie Hemms.

Maptime

A new source of support for mapmakers is spreading internationally. With so many sectors and niches, the spatial/IT industry was falling into silos. Then, seemingly from out of nowhere groups started appearing, first in the United States and then in Europe, under the label “Maptime,” in a similar fashion to the hackathons a decade ago. ...

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Teledyne Marine releases new 64bit software version of “Teledyne PDS Hexagon Imagery Program releases new airborne imagery content DigitalGlobe Makes Available 30-cm Satellite Imagery to Customers U.S. Senators Introduce Bipartisan Geospatial Data Act Septentrio launches its newest product, the AsteRx4 OEM  Teledyne Odom Hydrographic introduces the fully integrated MB2 Multibeam Echosounder for fast mobilization on...

The R1 is a small Bluetooth peripheral GNSS receiver that is purpose-designed for mapping-grade uses.

Mapping Peripheral

A review of Trimble’s R1, a GNSS Bluetooth peripheral for mobile devices, with multiple options for correction sources. The idea of a GNSS “puck” has broad appeal: a peripheral GNSS receiver to precision-enable mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, and a variety of purpose-built field-data-collection devices. There is a lot of functional territory between...

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SAM expands survey capacity with second Lynx Mobile Mapper Topcon releases newest vehicle mounted 3D mobile mapping system Surphaser new model press release The new 3D laser scanner of Zoller + Fröhlich New FARO Software PointSense for Revit New Leica ScanStations and Point Cloud Software Raise 3D Laser Scanning to Next Level ClearEdge3D Announces the...

John Heiser, a senior environmental research engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) collects solar data at the Long Island Solar Farm—a 200-acre, 32 MW facility located on the BNL campus.

Maximizing the Sun

Solar energy grows in part due to aerial imaging and surveying. Solar power is booming in the United States. “Every three weeks,” President Obama said in his 2015 State of the Union address, “we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.” Geospatial technologies—especially remote sensing and surveying—play an important...

Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science: the Next Wave of Surveyors

The innovative Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science is educating the next wave of surveying and geomatics professionals at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.If you were to endow a new facility for a surveying school and university campus, where would you put the building? To a surveyor, the choice is obvious: on the highest point...

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