National precision solutions company Position Partners will continue as the Australian Distributor of Gatewing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. Gatewing, based in Gent, Belgium, was recently acquired by global positioning equipment manufacturer Trimble, as reported in Spatal Source last week.   Gatewing’s solutions include the X100 UAV and Stretchout post processing software, designed to […]

  Imagine visiting one of 21 Medina Hotels, located in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide, Canberra or Wollongong. That’s what you could be doing, just by completing a short survey about you and your business.   Publisher of Spatial Source, The Intermedia Group, is conducting a survey into small-medium sized enterprises. The aim is to obtain […]

  Spatial industry jobs delivered direct to your inbox   Almost everyone is familiar with the concept of a Job Alert, where job seekers select criteria such as classification, work type, location, or salary, and have jobs matching those criteria emailed directly to them.   The evolution of internet enabled mobile devices has further enhanced […]

With the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic happening this month, there is no shortage of Titanic information coming out. One superb visualisation pointed out by O'Reilly Radar comes from ESRI, whom have created an interactive map showing the fates of the ship’s passengers. Slashgeo.org draw attention to Canada Post’s recent filing of […]

  Trimble recently announced that it has acquired privately held Gatewing of Gent, Belgium, a provider of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for photogrammetry and rapid terrain mapping applications.   UAVs in combination with photogrammetry are an emerging technology providing an innovative platform for aerial imagery acquisition. UAVs provide users the ability to create orthophotos […]

  The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) recently granted funds to three New Zealand research projects.   The first project is being developed by University of Canterbury’s HITLab and Christchurch-based ZNO Ltd. The project aims to develop a mobile phone application that will be used to visualise the future urban design of Christchurch. […]