Tag Archives: GIS
xyHt Digital Magazine: July/August 2023
xyHt magazine’s combined July/August issue focuses on geographic information systems and and how the science has made its way into many aspects of our existence—how it is helping now and how it will help in the future. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the...
HAS Potential
Free and Global: The new high accuracy positioning service (HAS) of the Galileo constellation and its advantages for GIS and asset mapping If you consider field mapping applications, such as for GIS, asset inventory and management, and field operations for utilities, how wonderful would it be to have sub-foot positioning in real time, with no...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 07/14/23
Bluesky’s Airborne Sensors Help Developers Protect Wildlife Habitats New Trimble Terra Office Workflow Delivers Integration with Esri ArcGIS Pro USGIF Announces Six New Board Members For 2023-2024 Topcon Introduces Aptix Integration Platform for Heavy Civil Construction Penn State Win Topographic Mapping at National Surveying Championship Tallest Mountain in Idaho is Higher Than Thought Registration Open...
Mapping Internet Deserts
North Carolina uses GIS to identify rural communities with poor broadband access to help farmers and fight poverty When Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack visited North Carolina last year to announce a $17.5 million grant for broadband connectivity, it felt like a lottery win for Warren County officials. Without the vital Internet connections that drive economic...
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. ...
How Cool
Los Angeles uses GIS technologies to help residents find respite during heat waves In late August 2022, a vicious heat dome sat over Los Angeles just when summer would typically fade into fall. For a week, temperatures climbed as high as 115 degrees in parts of Southern California—and didn’t cool off much at night. The extreme...
