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Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has acquired InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands.
The first episode of This Week in Maps, “a podcast about the latest maptastic geohappenings,” went live yesterday. (Wait — “maptastic geohappenings”? That’s a tagline. Wish I’d thought of it.) It’s hosted by OSM founder Steve Coast. Via GIS Lounge.
This Week in Maps first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on May 7, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
Another explanatory thingy from GPS Review: the difference between GPS and “assisted” GPS (A-GPS), used by smartphones and the like, which speeds up the process by using cell towers or geolocated Wi-Fi base stations.
GPS vs. Assisted GPS first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on May 10, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
Whose Map Is It? is a map art exhibition taking place at Rivington Place in London from June 2 to July 24, 2010. It features work from nine contemporary artists who “question the underlying structures and hierarchies that inform traditional mapmaking. They provide individual insights that inscribe new, often omitted perspectives onto the map.”
Film, installation, print and audio are used to challenge the authority of the map and explore wider social and political issues. Whose Map is it? includes three new commissions by Gayle Chong Kwan, Susan Stockwell and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, alongside recent work by Milena Bonilla, Alexandra Handal, Bouchra Khalili, Otobong Nkanga, Esther Polak and Oraib Toukan.
Free admission. Sample images here. Via Ctrl-N/Journal; thanks also to Sheena Balkwill.
Map Art Exhibition in London: Whose Map Is It? first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on May 12, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
On May 14, 2000, I walked across the stage at the University of Akron with my new degree in hand. I was one of only four survey program graduates who attended the commencement ceremony ...
Surveying the Land, Volume One: Distance Measuring Tools and Their Accuracy, 1620 to 1920, by Milton Denny, PLS
For well over 100 years, the National Bureau of Standards calibrated steel survey tape.
Golden Corral Using Three LBS Apps for Promo This Week ~ Palmetto *...* - Step Up Your GPS Capabilities with NAVCOM Starfire On The Cheap *...* - "**Land Surveyors United**" - Google Blog Search · LSU Magazine Issue #2 - by Land . ...
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Releases Survey User Guidelines
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Tool Allows Geoid Height Comparisons and Canada-Wide DGPS Service to be Decommissioned in 2011.
It's time for a bit more news about the new version of MapInfo Professional (v10.5):
[New features] enables users to access even more data and services thanks to a Metadata Browser. Users will be able to search and open map files by only typing in a...Read more
Billy Sewell, president and CEO of Platinum Corral (www.platinumcorral.com), a multi-unit franchise operator of Golden Corral Grill/Buffet Restaurants, has announced that the company will host its Golden Corral Cary Location-Based Roundup event on We...Read more
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Nearly two years after releasing a browser plugin allowing Google Maps API developers to embed Google Earth into a web page, Google has integrated “Earth view” into the Google Maps site itself: “Earth” is now a tab beside “Map” and “Satellite,” displacing “Terrain” (now found under “More”). Downloading the browser plugin is still required. CNet, Google LatLong, Official Google Blog.
This is not to deprecate the standalone Google Earth application. From the Official Google Blog: “Current Google Earth users, of course, will continue to enjoy the full power of the standalone application: KML editing, historical imagery, GPS tracks, tour-creation, Mars, Sky, flight simulator and so on. But for quick online access, the power of 3D will also be available at the click of a[n Earth] button.”
Earth View in Google Maps first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on April 27, 2010. Copyright © 2010 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence.
Over the past decade, the number of mergers and acquisitions in the architectural, engineering, surveying and mapping industry has increased steadily and considerably (see Figure 1). ...
2009 was a challenging year for surveying and mapping professionals. Many firms reduced spending and implemented furloughs, pay cuts and layoffs to stay afloat. Some didn't survive. ...
If you live, or are considering moving to, areas where flooding may be a problem, then you may be in need of special land surveying or certification. Many areas of the country, including parts of Flor...
In an industry involved in both art and science, it is sometimes difficult to have hard and fast rules that apply to every ethical situation. But there is a clear set of guidelines that every respecta...
Professional land surveyors must follow a strict code of ethics. This ethics code is set by each state's State Board of Land Surveying. Many professional surveying societies also outline their own cod...
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It took me a few reads to fully understand this idea, put forward by Michael Liebhold at a GigaOm session this week, that the global geocoding photo database that Google and others are creating is not only valuable to make, well, pretty 3D models. It...Read more
Bottom line: "Men are better at map reading, but women are superior at remembering routes"
The study: "The study looked at a group of men and women from a Mexican village who were sent to gather mushrooms fitted with satellite positioning systems ...Read more
