10/01/2012 – London, UK — FIND Maps (www.findmaps.co.uk), the UK’s most advanced online mapping website for professionals, is now authorized to deliver OceanWise marine datasets. These comprise an international range of Georeferenced Raster GeoTiffs as well as OceanWise Marine Themes (GIS compatible vector data). The Marine Themes datasets are compiled using authoritative data from the […]
Esri Releases National Geographic World Basemap
Highly Detailed Basemap Accessible via ArcGIS Online
New study comparing OpenStreetMap with TomTom from 2009-2011
A new study by the GIScience Research Group of the University of Heidelberg (http://giscience.uni-hd.de) that compares the evolution of the crowdsourcing project OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the commercial dataset from TomTom/Teleatlas has just been published. It is available fulltext as Open Access at http://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/4/1/1/ and covers the years 2009 to 2011 in Germany. As shown earlier […]
Blom releases v 3.1 of BlomDESKTOP Viewer, a desktop application for geospatial data
Following development of the BlomURBEX API, v3.1 of the BlomDESKTOP™ Viewer is now available. BlomDESKTOP Viewer is Blom’s stand alone geospatial data viewer and offers advanced measurement and interrogation capabilities. The latest release has largely focused on the addition of new features and the integration of BlomSTREET™, powered by Cyclomedia, ground level imagery technology. Some […]
New Heights of Accuracy for World Topography
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) have collaborated in the development of a much improved global elevation model, the Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010). GMTED2010 replaces the widely used, 15-year-old GTOPO30 terrain model as the best available global digital elevation model. Useful for regional-, continental-, and global-scale applications, […]
Census Bureau Releases 2010 Income and Poverty Estimates for All Counties and School Districts
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 — Between 2007 and 2010, the poverty rate for school-age children showed a statistically significant increase in about 20 percent of counties across the United States, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates for income and poverty in 2010 for every county and school district. In all, 653 counties saw a significant […]
Streamline Postal And Courier Services With Global Postal Codes
November 15, 2011, Toronto, Canada, NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NAC Sorter – a software module for mail sorting systems to sort all mail automatically from world level to final household mail boxes, thanks to the power of the Universal Address (also called the Global Postal Code). Though it has been a […]
Historical Maps Now Covering 36 States
Nearly 124,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online.
Cadcorp reveals new application for simplifying access to UK National Address Gazetteer data
AddressBase Loader to support leading spatial database products.
LandScan Global Population Database – New Dataset Now Available
The USGOVT has released the newest version of their annual LandScan Global Population data. LandScan shows the geographical distribution of ambient population at one-kilometer resolution and at certain scales also shows age and gender data. The LandScan dataset is the most authoritative and rich country, region, global population data. Request a trial to evaluate […]