19 January 2016 — The W3C and OGC Spatial Data on the Web Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of its Best Practices document for Spatial Data on the Web. This is a concerted attempt to bring together techniques used by the geospatial industry...
Indonesian City Gears up Smart City Roadmap with Smart Mapping Tech
The City of Depok, located in the West Java Province, Indonesia, has cemented its commitment to achieve smart city status by 2025 by leveraging state-of-the-art mapping technology to boost government efficiency and productivity. The 2015 winner of the Indonesian Smart...
Ordnance Survey to Map Oman's World Class Geospatial Path
Ordnance Survey (OS) has signed a deal with the Sultanate of Oman Ministry of Defence to help the National Survey Authority (NSA) advance its position as Oman’s national mapping authority. This contribution to the development of NSA as a world-class national...
OGC Seeks Public Comment on Candidate Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model and XML Encoding Standard
19 January 2016 — The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks public comment on the following two candidate standards: OGC Geospatial User Feedback Conceptual Model (“GUF Modelâ€) and the OGC Geospatial User Feedback XML encoding Standard. The...
Launch of the First Satellite in the SpaceDataHighway Programme
EDRS-A, the first relay satellite in the SpaceDataHighway programme (also called EDRS), will be launched to geostationary orbit on 28 January 2016 (Baikonour time). The SpaceDataHighway will provide high speed laser communications in space of up to 1.8 Gigabit per...
U.S. Navy Selects Trimble Survey Solutions for Marine Corps Topographic Missions
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 145 2016 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it has been awarded a five-year IDIQ (Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity) contract from the U.S. Navy to provide survey systems for the U.S. Marines Corps to support topographic...
Rise and Shine for Sentinel-3A
Following the Christmas break, the Sentinel-3A satellite has been taken out of its storage container and woken up as the campaign to prepare it for launch resumes at the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome. Liftoff is set for 4 February. This latest satellite for Europe’s...
GeoComm Acquires GeoSolve, Inc., Oregon-based GIS Company
GeoComm is pleased to announce the acquisition of GeoSolve Inc. a 9-1-1 GIS services provider in the State of Oregon. The acquisition, effective January 1, 2016, merges resources of two public safety GIS companies and allows for continued service to GeoSolve customers...
Future Grains
When global food prices spiked dramatically in late 2007 and into 2008, the costs of many basic dietary staples doubled or even tripled around the world, sparking protests and riots. Panicked governments stopped exporting food, aggravating the crisis. Almost as...
The Carbon Project Selected to Deploy Cloud-based Parcel Data Exchange
ALEXANDRIA, VA, January 13, 2016 — The Carbon Project today announced that the State of North Carolina, Office of Information Technology Services renewed its contract to deploy a cloud-based Cadastral Data Exchange, The effort builds on a pilot project conducted in...