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MAPPS, NSPS Announce 2017 National Surveying, Mapping & Geospatial Conference
Not your typical exhibit hall! TECH TIME SESSIONS Meet More People – Schedule Follow-up Discussions The 2017 MAPPS-NSPS National Surveying, Mapping & Geospatial Conference will feature “Tech Time”, a speed dating/speed mentoring concept which offers to those whose role is typically that of “exhibitor” the opportunity to be a “participant”, and to meet more people. Your...
Markets for Geospatial 2017: Part 2, Infrastructure
President Trump’s plan for investing in America’s infrastructure calls for $1 trillion in spending over the next ten years. The specifics of the plan are still a work-in-progress, but with largely bipartisan support, chances are that there will be a big push on infrastructure projects in the coming years, and that should translate into significant...
Methods of Analyzing Data Part 3: Data Snooping & the tau Criterion
In previous articles, I discuss two rudimentary techniques that can be used to identify blunders in data. However, anyone who has used an advanced least squares adjustment package knows that such software often uses a post-adjustment statistic known as the tau criterion. The tau criterion is a modification of a method known as data snooping,...
Webmapping 3.5: A Recommendation for your First Step Into Web Mapping
It’s been almost a year since the web mapping series I did. Hopefully, by now, you’ve had a chance to have a little play with some of the options. If not, don’t worry, I have a sneaky confession to make… I held back on one option, QGIS2WEB, which is a wysiwyg plugin for QGIS. Why...
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GRMC Announces Complete Scan-to-BIM and BIM Modeling Services FCC seeks public comments on receivers using Galileo signals in US Now Available: Juniper Systems’ Affordable, Android® Rugged Tablet – the CT7G
Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bad Elf
Bad Elf: delivering (very) affordable accuracy—simply—for mapping and asset management users. The device is a Bluetooth peripheral GNSS receiver that can feed more-reliable and precise positions to any location-based app on your smartphone or tablet. Having just returned from a visit to Bad Elf’s offices in Scottsdale, Arizona, I was itching to put this little...
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