Tag Archives: GIS

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 12/16/2022

Austrian Expertise Secures Endangers Peruvian Cultural Heritage with Digital Documentation Techniques Golden Bauhinia Satellite No. 1 05/06 Successfully Launched All Systems Launched – Geo Week 2023 Announces Five Strategic Event Partnerships Lodging Analytics Research and Consulting Introduces LARC GIS Chicago and TerraGo Win World Smart City Award for Streetlights Operations System Esri Collaborates with Geneva...

Encoding Geography: Scale Up to Keep Up

America’s foremost community of professional geographers wants all students, especially women and minorities, to have a head start in geocomputational abilities. A revolution in teaching geography is in the offing. Demand for professionals with geospatial skills is on the rise. In 2019, expertise in geospatial technology was listed by Upwork, a global job website, as...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 12/02/2022

Jack Dangermond to Keynote at Geo Week 2023 Presagis, Airbus to Provide Direct Access to OneAtlas Satellite Imagery Fugro Launches State-of-the Art Geotechnical Vessel for Safe Offshore Operations Nexar Releases CityStream™ Live, the Real-Time Mapping Platform for the Modern Mobility Age Xplore and UP42 Partner to Bring Satellite Data to Geospatial Customers Teledyne Geospatial to...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/18/2022

Hexagon’s Leica BLK2FLY named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2022 Earth Sciences Foundation Giving Tuesday is November 29 Axians France Enters into Partnership with Pix4D Resolution Introduced in Congress to Recognize National GIS Day NSPS Lobbyist Named Top in the Profession Voters in 18 States Approve Transportation Investment Measurers FCC Releases New Broadband Maps...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 08/05/2022

OGC Elects Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed-Ghouse to Board of Directors New Esri Book Showcases the Latest Online GIS Capabilities Ursa Space Systems and EOS Data Analytics Provide Geospatial Insights Across Ukraine NSPS Podcast: A Conversation with the Forest Service 2022 Surveying Education Award Winners Registration Now Open for CONEXPO-CON/AGG Bluesky Reveals Growing Appetite for Geospatial Data...

Supporting Free and Open-Source Software

Free and open-source software (FOSS) is sweeping across the IT industry, everywhere from office programs (LibreOffice) to GIS software (QGIS, R, Python). It is also being used extensively by large companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, and Netflix for their internal services as well as being used as building blocks to offer services to clients.  ...