Dutch navigation and digital maps firm TomTom on Wednesday reported a forecast-beating 14 percent rise in first-quarter revenue and said it had won two contracts to supply high-definition maps to carmakers. “We had a good start of the year, winning the first two...
Equipped with Velodyne Lidar Sensors, Techmake's Eagle X Swoops into Aerial-Mapping Market
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that Techmake Solutions, S.A., an IT consulting and technology development company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, is including Velodyne lidar sensors in its Eagle X mapping and surveying system. Velodyne’s...
Trimble Opens Registration for its 2019 in.sight User Conference + Expo
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that registration is now open for its 2019 in.sight user conference + expo for transportation, which will be held September 15-18, 2019, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. The theme...
WGIC Announces Appointment of New President and Treasurer for 2019 “ 2020 Term
The Annual General Meeting of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), was held on April 1, 2019 in Amsterdam. With 21 co-founders during the first formal meeting post launch of WGIC in July, 2018, the council has inducted another 21 members. These members...
Meet the Magnificent Seven set to receive funding, business support and the strategic backing of Ordnance Survey and HM Land Registry
Seven start-ups using location, land and property data in their products and services have been accepted onto the Geovation Accelerator Programme. Over the next twelve months the seven start-ups will receive a range of resources, including access to experienced...
BENIN Now Has an Up-To-Date National Map
In October 2014 IGN FI was awarded a contract to carry out digital mapping of the entire country of Benin at a scale of 1:50,000. Apart from a very few exceptions, the cartography of Benin had never been updated since the country gained its independence. The project...
Five US Departments of Transportation Upload 270,000 miles of Road Data to Mapillary to Understand Road Safety
New York - Five US Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have uploaded photologs with 40 million images covering 270,000 miles of road data to Mapillary, the computer vision-powered street-level imagery platform, in an effort to understand infrastructure and road...
Alteryx Expands APAC Presence to Amplify Analytics in Japan
TOKYO and IRVINE, Calif.-Â Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE: AYX), revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced its new office opening in Tokyo. The new office will support the success of hundreds of current customers in the country, including Honda...
Alta Devices Solar on Upcoming Satellite Launch
SAN FRANCISCO - This week, the NG-11 mission will launch from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft. This spacecraft will deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) and transport 60 small satellites, called ThinSats,...
Airbus and ZF to develop high precise end-to-end autonomous driving solution
Friedrichshafen – Airbus Defence and Space and ZF Friedrichshafen AG, a system provider for mobility, are collaborating to enrich and complement ZF on-board system to enhance autonomous driving by using Airbus satellite derived information. Under this collaboration,...
