Tag Archives: mapping
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
