Tag Archives: mapping

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 6/23/23

New Seafloor Mapping Program Supports Marine Safety and Planning in Two Indigenous Communities   Alameh Selected as Inaugural Executive Director of Taylor Geospatial Institute  LexisNexis Improves Insurer Risk Assessment Portfolio with National Tree Map  SAM Companies Acquires AXIS GeoSpatial  Leica Geosystems Introduces Hybrid Imaging and Lidar Sensor for Airborne Mapping  GEO Business 2023 Receives Glowing Reviews ...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/16/23

University of Maryland and Virginia Tech Earn USGIF Collegiate Accreditation  Galileo second gen enters full development phase  Large-scale survey of Albemarle Sound underway for NOAA  TCarta to Deliver Satellite Derived Bathymetry for 13 Regions to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency  Hexagon’s HxDR Powers Reality Cloud Studio, Ushering Automated Digital Reality into the Cloud  Hexagon Collaborates with NVIDIA...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/09/23

Association for Geographic Information Partners with British Cartographic Society  Bowman Acquires MTX Surveying  Birmingham Creates Interactive Mapping Portal using Bluesky Tree Data  Valmont Records Longest BVLOS Drone Flight on the Wings of T-Mobile 5G  Applications Invited for URISA’s Vanguard Cabinet  Commercial UAV Expo Announces 2023 Conference Program and Speaker Line-Up  Commercial UAV Expo Program Released ...

The Responsibility to Map the U.S. Coastline

(And the Inevitability of New Geodetic and Tidal Datums) Since the arrival of the first pilgrims to the North American continent, there has been a need for precise knowledge of the coastline of the new country, and the reasons are obvious. Arrival by boat was the only alternative when crossing the Atlantic and escaping religious...

xyHt Weekly News Recap: 06/02/23

Seabed 2030 and NORBIT Oceans to Accelerate Global Ocean Mapping  Phase One Launches iXM-SP150 Space-Hardened Camera at GEOINT  CartoVista Unveils Latest in GIS Web Mapping Platforms  USGIF Announces Three New Scholarships Sponsored by St. Louis Organizations  NOAA Hires Woolpert for Hydrographic Survey, Bathymetric Data in Nome, Alaska  Commercial Drone Alliance and Commercial UAV Expo Announce...

Tracking the Paranormal

Mapping Your World  Ever wonder where Bigfoot hangs out? What about where most UFOs fly by? Explore both with this per capita UFO and Bigfoot sightings map. The map by Kate Berg, which is featured in the 2023 GeoHipster calendar, cross references sightings of both by county.  See what trends or patterns you glean from...