Monday, December 21st, 2015
Clouds, tall buildings and the risk of typhoons were among the challenges for a Hong Kong company charged with taking the images behind the first 3D Google Earth map of an Asian city. Read More via South...
Friday, December 18th, 2015
NEW DELHI: It is essential to come up with a legislation for dissemination of images and geospatial data in public domain before according permission to service providers such as Google as "unfettered display of data" could have...
Friday, December 18th, 2015
When it comes to maps, China isn’t messing around. Starting next year, you don’t want to be caught with the “wrong” maps—that is, maps containing content “that endangers the country's sovereignty, safety and interests,” according to a...
Friday, December 18th, 2015
December 18, 2015 — The pace of deploying Europe’s own satellite navigation system continued to increase with today’s launch of the latest pair of Galileo satellites, doubling the number of satellites in space within nine months.Galileo 11 and...
Thursday, December 17th, 2015
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Dec. 17, 2015 —The mobile mapping market is poised for remarkable growth, thanks to breakthroughs in LiDAR technology, a host of new applications, and the economics of the business – so said Erich Smidt,...
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
NEW DELHI: As many as 248 of 2,018 or 12.3% of Himalayan glaciers are "retreating" while 18 are advancing, environment minister, Prakash Javadekar told the Rajya Sabha on Monday in a written reply. The minister's reply, however,...
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
BEIJING — China has tightened its rules on the distribution of maps that violate the government's stance on territorial disputes, state television said on Wednesday (Dec 16).Read More via Straits Times
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Swindon, UK, December 16, 2015 — CartoConsult has signed a joint venture agreement with Proteus to develop and promote the use of the latest laser scanning technology. As new systems are launched to market, such as handheld mobile mappers,...
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
The International Symposium on Earth Observation for Maritime Silk Road (EMSR) was convened in Sanya, a coastal city in southernmost China on November 25-27, 2015. The three-day event wrapped up with the adoption of the Sanya Declaration...
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Sydney, Aust., December 16, 2015 — 1Spatial, the spatial big data company, has enabled London Fire Brigade (LFB) to create faster, automated routes queries, which reduced processing time from 40 working hours to just two. Emergency services organisations face...
