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Friday, January 31st, 2014
Blue Marble Geographics released Global Energy Mapper version 15.1, a so called minor release that features the “Create Flattened Site Pad Plan” dialog box option and improved processing of IHS Well (297/298) files.
According to the press release, “Global Energy Mapper is not just a viewer capable of displaying the most popular raster, elevation, and vector datasets. It converts, edits, prints, tracks GPS, and allows users to utilize GIS functionality on a wide variety of datasets. With Global Energy Mapper users have access to the Blue Marble GeoCalc coordinate transformation, SpatialOnDemand subscription and custom industry tools like the pad site placement tool, seismic survey tools and built-in point types and symbols for the oil & gas industry.”
Additional features of the new release include added support for MS SQL Spatial databases, enabling Global Energy Mapper to support all available spatial database types and 3D support for displaying a path profile across separate terrain surfaces that allows users to easily compare the surface of multiple loaded terrain layers along a single path.
Tags: Blue Marble Geographics, geospatial, GIS, Google, Google Maps, location, mapping
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Thursday, January 30th, 2014
According to the Fraser Coast Chronicle, of Queensland, Australia, the Bundaberg Regional Council embraced mapping technology in order to save lives of flood victims during the Bundaberg tornados a year ago in January 2013. This is now the anniversary of the disaster, when six tornados struck in and around Bundaberg. The GIS technology employed provided rescue teams with critical and timely information for evacuations, rescues, food drops, and the ensuing clean-up.
In the article, GIS Delivery and Support team leader Steven Bowden said the technology was a crucial part of its operation to evacuate more than 6,000 people from the areas of North and East Bundaberg. “Council has been working with Esri Australia in leveraging GIS technology across different business areas for the past five years,” Mr Bowden said.
Floods hit the regions in 2010 and 2013, when the technology delivered up-to-date information while the floods were happening. GIS was used for all tactical and operational decision-making, situational awareness, strategic planning and rescue efforts as well as engaging the public.
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Tags: decision making, flood mapping, Fraser Coast, geospatial, GIS
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
According to an article in the Times of India, the city of Noida has upgraded its services to electricity consumers. The Noida discom (distribution company) is going to use a GIS platform that can determine the exact location and coordinates of callers complaining about outages from faults and snags. It will also indicate coordinates of the snag on the distribution network, which will help in being able to attend to faults more quickly.
Customer care centers of the discom have integrated the GIS platform. A training programme by Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited (PVVNL) is currently underway at its disaster-response centre in Sector 58 to attune employees and executives to efficiently handle the platform.
PVVNL officials said that they are using the programme to train staff to effectively use the online billing system and collect payments. “A number of applications that have been developed will be implemented in the city under this programme. The purpose behind this initiative is to make good use of information technology and provide better service to consumers,” said AP Singh, executive engineer (IT-PVVNL).
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Tags: electrical utility, GIS, India
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Thursday, January 16th, 2014
As energy efficiency is of paramount importance these days, thermal survey maps can show hot spots and can identify where housing is not heated properly. This situation is called “fuel poverty” and is due to poor insulation or people simply wanting to conserve heat by not turning on the heat. The combination of thermal data with other datasets such as demographic data can help pinpoint buildings where this is the case.
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Tags: Bluesky, demographic data, geospatial, GIS, mapping, thermal data
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Friday, January 10th, 2014
Andrew Tosh, founder of GameSim of Orlando, a 3D visualization and GIS applications used in the gaming and military simulation industries, talked about the plans to expand their product Conform into the GIS market. GameSim is looking at 30% growth (2013). Tosh started the company in 2008 and now they have 33 employess. They will do revenue at $3.7 million this year.
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Tags: Conform, data, elevation data, feature data, GameSim, geospatial, GIS, LiDAR, point clouds, satellite imagery
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Thursday, December 19th, 2013
The following are GISCafe Voice’s Geospatial Predictions for 2014. Some of them were on last year’s list, but continue on as important predictions for change in 2014. There was big change in 2014, in the delivery of products, demand for certain types of products such as for disaster recovery, tracking and restoration and mobile apps, as well as the coming of age of indoor location mapping. See if our predictions line up with what your predictions are for 2014!
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Tags: Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, Building Information Modeling, climate change, Crossrail, ENVI, ESRI, Exelis, geospatial, GIS, GISCafe Voice, indoor location, mobile, platforms, Safe Software, satellite imagery, security, servers, Top Geospatial Predictions for 2014, Topcon, UAVs
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Monday, December 16th, 2013
Michael Healander, Director of the GISi Indoors business unit, a part of GISi, a 22-year-old location technology company, talked about the GISi Indoors product GeoMetri released in July 2013.
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Tags: building, GeoMetri, geospatial, GIS, GISi, infrastucture, location, location based technologies, mapping, mobile
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
Esri has released CityEngine 2013, the latest version of its 3D urban design software. The release includes a new software developer kit (SDK) that enables CityEngine procedural modeling technology to be used in 3D software packages such as Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and SketchUp.
 Esri CityEngine is among the first 3D urban design software applications to include seamless export to the web via CityEngine web scenes. (more…)
Tags: 3D City GIS, 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, CityEngine, ESRI, geospatial, GIS, SDK, SketchUp
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Thursday, December 5th, 2013
Robots for the future jobsite, flying drones for delivering packages and reality capture were all part of the show at Tuesday morning’s Mainstage presentation at Autodesk University 2013. Clearly, these technology directions are dependent upon location and geospatial technology.
Iris the robot
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Tags: AEC, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Autodesk University, cloud, crowdsourcing, data, geospatial, GIS, GPS, location, mapping, maps, mobile, NASA, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Quadrocopter, social media, UAVs
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