While there are many web-based mapping tools available for free, there are precious few that allow you to also run analytics – the heart and soul of a GISystem – without charging fees. The reason is simple; analytics cost serious CPU time. However, GeoIQ has recently integrated its once enterprise-only web-based GIS analysis […]
Trimble introduces updated software, data processing service
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Trimble recently introduced version 2.50 of its Trimble Business Centre software for surveying offices and a new Data Processing Service, a component of the Trimble Access Services. Trimble Business Center allows survey data managers to combine GNSS and optical surveying data as well as digital image data from Trimble surveying instruments into a […]
A web portal training students for geoinformation
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011A new web-portal with the aim of increasing the geoinformatic competencies of European students has launched today. The Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria today unveiled their new digital-earth.eu project, a European network connecting those using Spatial Media and Geoinformation in School Education. The project involves experts in the use of geographical […]
Run for plants viewable online
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011Two guys are running from Sydney to Melbourne to help save plant species, and you can track their progress online. Chris Turnbull, aged 27, and Len Gervay, aged 30, stared their 900km journey at the Sydney GPO at dawn on Sunday 19 June. As it stands when I write this, they are currently […]
Best of the Blogs 21/6/11
By Spatial Source on 21 June, 2011The latest effort in the ongoing saga of humanity handing over the control of their brains to the machines comes from Bellevue, Washington, where three young women had to clamber from their vehicle after the driver followed their SatNav unit’s instructions so precisely that she ended up driving into a lake. Considering there was […]
International LiDAR Mapping Forum
By Spatial Source on 14 June, 2011The International LiDAR Mapping Forum [ILMF] is the premier event for the LIDAR industry, attracting professionals from all over the world and is supported by ASPRS. WHEN: 2012-01-23 to 2012-01-23WHERE: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Conference Center, Denver, Colorado, USASTATE: InternationalCOUNTRY: INT The ILMF conference is a unique platform on which to launch the latest […]
Best of the Blogs 14/6/11
By Spatial Source on 14 June, 2011There is an interesting discussion happening around geotagging (specifically geotagging historical photos on Flickr) over at Archives Outside – the blog of State Records NSW. If this is a topic you have some specialty in, or even just an interest, it’s worth taking a look. Thanks to Iain Stuart from JCIS consultants for sending […]
Satellite imagery catches land clearers
By Spatial Source on 14 June, 2011Queensland’s biggest ever fine handed down for illegal tree clearing was issued with the help of satellites. Finlay and Valerie Cocks must pay $112,000 for clearing 320 hectares of native vegetation on a property near Dingo. Queensland Environment Minister Kate Jones says satellite images exposed the clearing, and that the fine is […]
New SSSI website now online
By Spatial Source on 14 June, 2011The revised Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) website is now online with improved functionality in terms of booking events, payment for membership, adding CPD points, SSSI contacts, and browsing State Chapter and Commission information. The website is still in beta, so if you find any bugs, please report them to support@sssi.org.au […]
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XXV ISPRS Congress 2026
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