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ArcGIS 10.4 & QGIS 2.14

QGIS 2.14 vs ArcGIS Pro 10.4

This post almost didn’t happen. For over seven years I’ve been comparing GIS software in the hope that someone would be reading and take it upon themselves to fix a few of the issues that we all run into on a daily basis. With the new releases someone told me something, and it almost stopped...

Septentrio’s headquarters in Belgium has an international staff, about half in engineering.

Advancing GNSS: Full Interview with Jan Van Hees & Bruno Bougard

Jan Van Hees, Septentrio’s Business Development Manager, and R&D Director Bruno Bougard Click here for the truncated version of this interview that appeared in the February 2016 print issue of xyHt.  Septentrio was started as a spin-off of IMEC and attracts talent from KULeuven University as well as from around the world. What is the current...

xyHt News Links: 3/18/16

ZEB‐REVO – A Revolution in Mobile Indoor Mapping SPAR 3D Expo & Conference announce live demonstrations and special events. Asset Owners Share Business Drivers for 3D Technologies at SPAR 3D Kongsberg reference system integrates GNSS services Cadcorp announces new enterprise GIS software licensing model Hemisphere GNSS Debuts S321 GNSS Survey Smart Antenna Maryland’s MD iMAP...

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Technology: the Bane of Surveying Traditions?

I have been surveying going on 39 years now. It’s a darn good thing I have succeeded, or at least survived in this profession, because I never really learned how to do anything else. Never really wanted to. As I have watched our profession change drastically over that time, mostly driven by technology and the...

2022

The NGS discusses the upcoming national spatial reference framework modernization. Reference framework shift happens. The National Geodetic Survey (NGS)—the federal steward of the National Spatial Reference Framework (NSRS)—is planning a major (if not fundamental) update of the framework. This pending update is common knowledge among geodetic, surveying, and other geospatial communities.  Among the information circulating...

Adding layers

Web Mapping Part 3

Creating a Real Online Map In part 3 of this series (parts 1 and 2 are in the December 2015 and January 2016 issues), we build a web map using Microsoft Windows and Geoserver. We’ll be building this to run on the computer’s “localhost” (https://127.0.0.1), which means that you can run the web map like...

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