Osha Gray Davidson’s Forbes blog has a piece on the various attempts at trying to locate Osama Bin Laden’s now infamous Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, where the Al Qaeda founder was assassinated. Spoiler alert: it finishes with the official location, and diagrams of the compound.   If you want the freshest imagery, however, G Earth […]

  Ergon Energy and internet giant Google have partnered for a project to remotely map and maintain Ergon's electricity network, using two light aircraft equipped with laser scanners and digital cameras and Google’s new Earth Builder enterprise mapping tool.   Scheduled to fly in August, the aircraft will capture the approximately 150,000 km of power lines […]

  1Spatial, a holding company "focused on improving the quality and access to business-critical location-data across the globe", is to acquire Lagen Spatial Pty Ltd.   The acquisition will be funded out of 1Spatial's working capital and will not result in any dilution of existing shareholder equity.   The total consideration paid by the company […]

  Trimble has announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the privately-held Ashtech S.A.S., headquartered in Carquefou, France, and its affiliates. The acquisition is expected to expand Trimble’s Spectra Precision portfolio of surveying products, and allow the company to better address emerging markets worldwide. Closing of the transaction, anticipated in the […]

  I’ve previously talked about China cracking down on illegal mapping, but The Register has a story saying that the hotline set up for dobbing in of illegal mapping has not yet received a single phone call.   The Map Room has pointed me to an interesting piece that the BBC posted, that says that Google […]