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A "Harlow Report" From March 6, 2023
HERE Introduces UniMap to Revolutionize How Maps Are Created, Updated and Used
Giovanni Lanfranchi, Senior Vice President and Chief Product & Technology Officer, HERE Technologies, said: “Ever since we started out mapping California in the mid-1980s, we’ve been seeking to shrink the time it takes to detect a real-world change, reflect it in the map and get it into the hands of our customers. The turnaround time in our industry has typically been measured in months. With UniMap, we provide anytime access to a unified map that’s refreshed in hours, minutes or seconds. This is a big leap forward for anyone building applications that use location data.”
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Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper Standard v25.1
Global Mapper standard v25.1 includes solar updates to the Hillshade tool for terrain display, mesh cropping, and more.
The Hilshade tool in Global Mapper displays directional shadows on terrain data. It’s useful for visualizing terrain texture and estimating shadows. Version 25.1 has enhanced the existing tool by adding the option to calculate the sun’s Azimuth and Altitude based on time at a specified location. Using either the data’s location or an input location, you can give Global Mapper a date and time, and it will automatically calculate the sun’s location for display in the 2D and 3D workspaces.
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Esri Recognizes Partners for Achievement in US Federal Government Market
Partner Network Members Recognized at the Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, DC
The award-winning companies are members of the Esri Partner Network and are recognized for their innovation and excellence in helping customers succeed with ArcGIS technology.
Award categories and winners include the following:
“Esri is proud to acknowledge these partners for their incredible work, spanning from national security to protecting natural resources,” said Patty Mims, Director of Business Development, Global National Government at Esri. “These partners have worked tirelessly to deliver Esri based solutions to make our nation and our allied nations safe and sustainable.”
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Geospatial Data Helps Manage Natural Hazards, Climate Change Threats
by Zelda Els
Mitigating the increasing effects of climate change has become a top priority for South African insurers who have collectively paid billions of rands in related damages over the past five to 10 years.
… Using the 105 years of expertise and data at its core, Santam is merging this intelligence with technology to pioneer a new risk management underwriting tool to assist underwriters in de-risking against exposures. The Santam Underwriting Viewer, developed with geographic information systems (GIS) technology (also known as spatial intelligence) overlays geocoded addresses with scientific data sets to determine the exposure to specific perils at a given location – for the first-time allowing underwriters to see all the data layers they need to be aware of to apply appropriate policy conditions to a property.
Read full story at IT Online…
Social Media GIS: Revolutionizing the Way We Understand and Interact with Our World
SocialMediaGIS is a powerful tool that combines social media data with geographic information systems for enhanced analysis and insights.
Social Media GIS is the integration of social media data with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. GIS is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. By combining social media data with GIS, we can gain a deeper understanding of the spatial patterns and trends in social media activity.
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Today’s GIS Technology Puts Multipurpose Cadastre Within Reachay’s GIS technology puts multipurpose cadastre within reach
Bridging the gap between vision and reality
… Ever since the US National Research Council (NRC) published the groundbreaking ‘Need for a Multipurpose Cadastre’ report in 1980, there has been a global vision for implementing a system that represents all land rights, restrictions and responsibilities in a geographic context or map-centric system. Since then, much work has been done in the direction of multipurpose cadastre (MPC), mostly on a small, localized scale. Modernization, digitalization and automation have occurred in many government agencies with land information systems – registry, valuation, planning, natural resources, administrative records and others – but a fully operational MPC has yet to be realized.
Read full story at GIM International…
