Yesterday (January 7th at 10:59 a.m. and 11:02 a.m. EST), two of Maxar Technologies’ high-resolution satellites collected new imagery of Washington D.C., including the U.S. Capitol and surrounding area. The imagery provides an excellent view of the inauguration stands/seats along the west side of the Capitol as well as an overview of the Capitol grounds.
Fugro to provide first topographic lidar base map for island nation of Palau
Fugro has been awarded a contract by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to perform high-resolution topographic lidar base mapping for the Republic of Palau.
Free Financial Assets Data for Maptitude Mapping Software (or as Shapefile)
NEWTON, MA (USA) – Caliper is excited to announce the release of free financial assets data for the USA. This new tract-level map layer includes 56 columns of asset data on classes including individually or jointly owned checking accounts, savings accounts, CDs, money market accounts, stocks, bonds, and rental properties, real estate, primary home value, trusts, annuities, […]
Census Bureau Releases New Demographic Data on Nonemployer Businesses
DEC. 17, 2020 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released a new annual data product that provides demographic characteristics for nonemployer businesses in the United States. The new product, known as the Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D), replaces the nonemployer component of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Business Owners (SBO), which was conducted every five years. NES-D […]
Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections
DEC. 15, 2020 — The U.S. Census Bureau today released new population estimates and projections for over 200 countries and areas through the year 2100. These data are available from the redesigned International Data Base (IDB) web tool.
AWS Announces New Geolocation Service
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UP42 to Offer Smart Satellite Data from Australia’s LatConnect 60 on the UP42 Geospatial Marketplace
BERLIN, Germany, 15 December 2020 – UP42 today announced that image data and information from the planned LatConnect 60 constellation of mid-inclined orbit remote sensing satellites will be available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics.
Major Production Update: ‘Los Angeles’ 3D Buildings for Unity3D
USTER, Switzerland, Nov. 20, 2020 / — vrbn studios announced its new release of 29 3D building packs, with a total of over 80 high-quality 3D buildings (four packs are free of charge) for the Unity3D game engine.
OpenData Tip – CKAN Open Source data portal platform
CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding, and using data. CKAN is open source, free software
UP42 Partners With Hexagon To Offer HxGN Content Program Aerial Imagery on Geospatial Marketplace
BERLIN, Germany, 20 October 2020 – High-resolution aerial imagery from the HxGN Content Program is now available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics. UP42 customers may now choose from nearly 11 million square kilometers of 30 cm orthorectified imagery for North America and Europe and over 500,000 sq km of 15 […]
