Tag Archives: GIS

GISWORX 2016

For most, work is a 9 to 5 grind that slowly eats at your core until you retire, find you have nothing to do, and get bored. Not if you work in the geospatial field though; everyday is a new adventure, and this month took me to the UAE, to be specific, Dubai for the...

xyHt News Links: 4/1/16

East View Now Offering PlanetDEM 30 Plus Trimble Seismic Navigation Systems Support Stakeless Operations for Geophysical Exploration Boundless Launches Complete Open Source GIS Platform for the Enterprise Driverless Conference sparks autonomous car development analysis FARO® Introduces World’s First 3D Scan Localizer and the First FARO Innovation Product Introduction in FARO’s new Early Adopter (EA) Program...

An interview with Mapillary CEO Jan Erik

Following Mapillary’s announcement yesterday, I sought to get more information about Mapillary and how they have come to be such an interesting prospect in the geospatial world. Mapillary is a pioneer in new ways to capture, share, and utilize street-level images. Yesterday I had the privilege to interview Jan Erik Solem of Mapillary to get the...

Web Mapping, Part 2

It’s as easy as 1, 2, built. In my last article in this series (December 2015), I briefly discuss the essence of what a web map is and the basic components. This part looks at the easy web mapping solutions that I briefly touch on in the last piece. I then discuss and provide the...

xyHt News Links: 1/8/16

Phase One Industrial Announces 100 Megapixel Medium Format Metric Cameras for Aerial Data Acquisition CES 2016 – Inuitive and gestigon bring gesture recognition to embedded virtual reality platforms DAT/EM Systems International Releases 7.2 Septentrio’s Pinpoint-GIS is available on the ArcGIS Marketplace Leading LiDAR Expert, Tim Blak, Joins Atlantic Berntsen International ranked among top 300 B2B E-Commerce...

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Why 3D GIS Is the Future

“The world we live in is a three-dimensional world, so why do we map it and analyse it in just two dimensions?” —Dragons8mycat, 2013 In the last five years, we, the GIS industry, have made some fantastic advances. So, why is it that we are so slow with the adoption of using 3D data? Surveyors...