On Tuesday 8 December at the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 in Paris, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the French space agency (CNES) met to reaffirm their commitment to jointly develop the MEthane Remote...
imajing Mobile Mapping Solutions Deployed in Russia to Serve the State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City Roads
December 10, 2015 — The State Budgetary Institution of Moscow City "Roads" is one of the leading organizations of road and communal services in Moscow City. It was created in 2011 by order of the Government of Moscow, and is now responsible of the complete...
Boundless Raises More Than $5M in Series B Funding Round
New York, NY – Dec. 10, 2015 — Boundless, the leading provider of open source “geospatial†software and services which use location-based mapping technology, today announced it has raised more than $5 million in Series B funding led by Motorola Solutions...
SuperGIS Desktop Supports Italian Waste Management Organization
December 10, 2015 — The global GIS solution and software provider, Supergeo Technologies Inc. announces that ATO2 – Ancona, a regional waste management organization in Italy, has selected SuperGIS Desktop as their solution to process geospatial data. Located in...
Bluesky's 3D Aerial Maps Inform Flood Risk Assessments for Planning Applications
Leicestershire, December 9, 2015 — Aerial photography and detailed 3D height models of the UK are being used to assess the risk of flooding, and help development projects progress through the planning process. Working with Betts Hydro, part of engineering...
Finding the Right Address: a Matter of Life or Death
December 9, 2015 — An Ordnance Survey software pilot has helped save lives, so say the Community First Responders (CFRs ) who used it. The prototype mobile web app was used by a sample of CFRs from across the country over an eight week period. During this time the...
Getmapping Wins a Place on the G-Cloud 7 Framework
December 9, 2015 — Getmapping Plc has been re-appointed as a supplier of cloud-based GIS data and software services to the UK Public Sector under the G-Cloud 7 Framework. Managed by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the G-Cloud is an online catalogue available to...
Esri's ArcGIS to Support SAP HANA(R) as Enterprise Geodatabase, Deepening Integration Across Products
SAP NEWSBYTE — Dec. 8, 2015 — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that through a global technology partnership, Esri will commercially support ArcGIS using SAP HANA® as an enterprise geodatabase. This release of ArcGIS, planned for 2016, expands the existing...
Geocarto International Centre Named First Reseller of Fuze Go MS Sharp Model Software
CLEVELAND, OHIO, 7 December 2015 – Scene Sharp USA has named Geocarto International Centre Limited of Hong Kong as the first Reseller of Fuze Go MS Sharp Model, an add-on to the IMAGINE Spatial Modeler.  Within ERDAS IMAGINE®, the IMAGINE Spatial Modeler provides...
Sanborn Maps Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 4, 2015 — The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. (Sanborn) has completed mobile LiDAR data collection for two corridors in Glacier National Park and one corridor in Yellowstone National Park totaling approximately 40 linear miles. Sanborn was...
