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Podcast: Episode 64
We skip youtube for this episode and get back to basics with some financially based Spatial News. Plus we try and see what others can’t and review Esri’s TV commercial and consider what it means for the industry. Plus we have a hard fort game of Export to Shapefile.
Listen below: http://cast.rocks/hosting/6022/Geodorable-Episode-64.mp3
See What Others Can’t Spatial News
GIS Day
Pitney Bowes Announces Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results
Maxar Technologies Reports Third Quarter 2019 Results
Investors – DraganFly Inc.
OrbitGT Acquired by Bentley Systems – GISCafe Voice
Indoor Positioning...
SCP E141 Where to next for Smart Cities and Communities? (Part 5)
I’m back with another bonus episode of the podcast that brings together multiple guests answers to the question “Where to next with Smart Cities and Communities?” And this time I’m sharing with you the answers from a number of our guests from earlier this year. Listen here: Guests featured in this episode: E108 Abel Immaraj E95 Natalie Malligan E119 Aileen Gemma Smith E92 Chris Cooper E112 Flora Salim E98 Jacob Baskin E86 Joaquim Alvarez There are a few main themes that come up over...
SoundCloud: Episode 34: A maritime achievement 150 years in the making | Geointeresting
It’s not often that you get to celebrate a sesquicentennial, but that’s just what the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency did this fall at its Springfield, Virginia, campus. For 150 years, the Notice to Mariners has kept navigators and shipmasters informed with the most current navigational information. The average observer would be forgiven for not knowing the notice even exists. Vessels navigating safely rarely make headlines. Notice to Mariners have neither dramatic moments nor hair-raising adventures....
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AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL REALITY
Fighting on New Frontiers
ONE WORLD TERRAIN
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Workshop on Automatic Vectorisation of Historical Maps | International Cartographic Association
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ESRI
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VECTOR & RASTER DATA
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Online GeoJSON Editors | Maps Mania
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GRASS GIS 7.8.1 released with PROJ 6 and GDAL 3 support | OSGeo
What’s new in a nutshell
As a follow-up to the recent GRASS GIS 7.8.0 release we have pusblished the new stable release GRASS GIS 7.8.1....
QGIS
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YouTube Video: 1 How to Generate Longitidunal Sections using Profile Tool in QGIS | DMoC 2019
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GRASS GIS 7.8.1 released with PROJ 6 and GDAL 3 support | OSGeo
What’s new in a nutshell
As a follow-up to the recent GRASS GIS 7.8.0 release we have pusblished the new stable release GRASS GIS 7.8.1....
