Tag Archives: GIS

Edgar Barreira

Edgar Barreira

GIS Strategist and Natural Resources Account Manager, Esri Portugal As the Portuguese representative of Young Surveyors Network, account manager at Esri Portugal, business consultant, and owner of a small company, Edgar Barreira is a true young entrepreneur. At Esri, Edgar develops GIS strategies for customers’ needs; manages, identifies, and generates sales opportunities and assists in...

Melanie Abuel

GIS Manager, Manila Water Company, Inc. Philippines As the (very young) head of GIS development at Manila Water, Melanie Abuel leads a team that serves 6M people while managing the assets of 6000 km of pipes and 250 facilities. In addition to database and GIS mobile application development, her team works on UAV and lidar...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 12/1/17

Hemisphere GNSS debuts scalable smart antenna Orbit GT releases 3D Mapping Publisher v18 3D Laser Mapping launches campaign to release open-source LiDAR data SimActive Introduces New Technology for True Orthos Marine-i Event creates an exciting vision of the future Applanix and Think 3D Deliver UAV Lidar Mapping with Direct Georeferencing GIS Tools in EDU PR...

QGIS 3D

How to Use the New QGIS 3D

When QGIS revealed that they were going to add a 3D viewer, I was skeptical. Rumors were going around about it being a bolt on functionality and not really being fully adopted. To be perfectly honest, I was put off before there was anything to look at. As screenshots started to appear from Lutra Consulting,...

xyHt Weekly News Links: 11/17/17

EdgeTech Introduces New OEM Acoustic Release Components for Customizable Underwater Release Packages Esterline CMC Electronics and NovAtel® partner on new aviation certified GNSS Receiver Hemisphere GNSS Debuts A222 Scalable GNSS Smart Antenna Hemisphere GNSS Announces Atlas® Basic – Instant Global Sub-Meter Positioning for Atlas-Capable Hardware Intuicom Announces Bluetooth BRIDGE™ Engineered Specifically for Autodesk® BIM 360...

The Problem with GIS and Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality

Over the last few years, altered realities technology has exploded, and now, with the introduction of Apple’s ARKit and Android’s ARCore, AR, MR, and VR are well within the reach of the non-developer. I can confirm this as I’ve created a few AR apps and MR apps myself over the last few months, with no experience...