November 4, 2015 - FAA Administrator Opens UAS Registration Meeting. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta Remarks as prepared: Good morning, everyone. Thank you for taking the time to be here. Unmanned aircraft use has increased dramatically in recent years. With this...
Young GIS Professionals Encouraged to Apply to URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet
Des Plaines, IL, November 4, 2015 — URISA is pleased to announce the availability of the 2016 Vanguard Cabinet application. Applications are due by November 30, 2015. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative which debuted in 2011 to engage young GIS...
Global Mapper and GM LiDAR SDKs v17 Released with Power Line Extraction and 3D Point Styles
Hallowell, Maine, November 4, 2015 — Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 17 of the Global Mapper Base Software Development Kit (SDK) along with the Global Mapper LiDAR Module SDK. This update,...
URISA Leaders Recognized at GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015
Des Plaines, IL , November 4, 2015 — Nearly 450 GIS professionals - from 37 states, 3 Canadian provinces, and 8 countries - recently convened in Spokane, Washington for GIS-Pro & NWGIS 2015. One of the highlights of the conference was the Awards Breakfast,...
OGC Seeks Participants for International GeoPackage Elevation Data Interoperability Experiment
November 4, 2015 —The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in the OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Elevation Extension Interoperability Experiment (GPKG-EE IE). The OGC GeoPackage Standards Working Group (SWG) has identified a need to store...
JUPEM Earns Global Recognition for Ground-Breaking Smart Mapping Project
November 4, 2015 — Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia (JUPEM) has received a prestigious Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for their efforts to promote the use of geospatial information in Malaysia through a ground-breaking project called Geospatial Data...
Call for Papers for the Esri UK 2016 Annual Conference Now Open
Aylesbury, November, 4, 2015 — Esri UK is pleased to invite proposals for presentations for its 2016 Annual Conference to be held on Tuesday 17th May, at the QEII Conference Centre, in London. The day-long event, the biggest in the UK GIS calendar, brings...
GEO Unleashes the Power of Open Data in Mexico City, November 9 – 13
Geneva, November 4, 2015 — Hosted by the Government of Mexico, the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will convene its international Plenary and Ministerial Summit on 9-13 November in Mexico City. Against the backdrop of recent approval of the UN...
TerraGo Edge Brings Swagger to GPS Field Data Collection
Washington, DC, November 4, 2015 — TerraGo, a pioneer of geospatial collaboration and enterprise mobility software, announces the availability of TerraGo Edge 3.8, which features the new TerraGo Edge REST API, auto-recording functions and numerous other...
Strasbourg Shares Richest Geographical Database in France
November 4, 2015 — For many years, 1Spatial, the global spatial software firm which manages the world’s largest spatial data, has been working in close collaboration with Eurométropole de Strasbourg to create and maintain a single source of authoritative...
