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Benefits of Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems

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Satellite-Based augmentation system (SBAS) services provide capabilities to improve location data for global positioning system (GPS) devices.

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HERE spearheads private mapping offering empowering enterprises

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HERE spearheads private mapping offering empowering enterprises to build custom maps

  • Unique mapping-as-a-service offering targeted at enterprises wanting to create differentiation and improve operational efficiency
  • Of particular benefit to T&L industry players wanting to build custom maps at scale

CES 2021 - HERE Technologies, the leading location data and technology platform, today announced the introduction of a unique mapping-as-a-service offering. The HERE private mapping offering is targeted at enterprises wanting to create differentiation and reduce operational costs through building, maintaining, and using unique map datasets for advanced analytics and services. The offering is enabled by advanced platform functionality coupled with industry-leading map creation, processing and delivery capabilities.

Available now, bundled as part of a professional services engagement, the first private mapping use cases relate to industrial yard mapping, leveraging probe data from private fleets of vehicles in order to create and update the map. Progressively through 2021, the aim is to enable enterprises to bring their own map data onto the HERE location platform and use it in combination with HERE map data and services which will increasingly be available as a self-serve experience. Enterprises will have the option to do this autonomously or can co-develop with the HERE professional services team, who provide a wide portfolio of globally scalable mapping-related services, to define a...

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HERE Technologies makes EV driving a more seamless, personalized

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  • EV Routing delivers the most optimal route including charging time
  • Trips and charging stops can be planned to take into account both static and dynamic data

January 11, 2021

CES 2021 – Range anxiety is a key concern for many drivers. Therefore, ensuring easy and fast access to chargepoints is essential to persuading drivers to switch to EV vehicles. At the same time, many players in the ride-hailing industry have pledged to electrify their whole fleets and some countries have committed to banning sales of conventional petrol and diesel engine cars. With that in mind, HERE Technologies is unveiling a new EV Routing feature to optimize both private and commercial electric vehicle routing while minimizing the number of charging stops and reducing battery charging times, based on the vehicle’s consumption model.

EV Routing takes into account topography, road geometry, real time traffic information and traffic patterns while planning trips. It can be synced to the consumption model of the vehicle and can be adjusted to different driving styles, loads or weather conditions. EV Routing is a feature of a routing API built on top of HERE map and is included in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) products. It also leverages HERE EV Charge Points[1], a database that includes vehicle...

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Red Cat partners with Skypersonic Completes Long Distance Drone

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Pilot located in Orlando, Florida controls drone flying in Detroit, Michigan

ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 11, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB:RCAT[1]) ("Red Cat" or the "Company"), a leading brand in the drone industry, announced that Fat Shark, a wholly owned subsidiary, had partnered with Skypersonic, the manufacturer of the Skycopter UAV, to complete a long distance drone flight remotely.  The flight consisted of a pilot, located in Orlando, Florida, controlling a drone flying in Detroit, Michigan.  The flight integrated Fat Shark's new digital technology, "Shark Byte" with Skypersonic's Skycopter and remote pilot software system.  The pilot's flight instructions to the drone were transmitted through Skypersonic's servers located in Italy.  The companies believe this represents the first commercial completion of a remote flight similar to how drones are used by military forces.

"The ability to control the flight of a drone from thousands of miles away should accelerate the commercial adoption of drone technology, expand the number of business services that can be provided by drones, and lower travel and training costs for companies deploying drones." stated Jeff Thompson, CEO of Red Cat. "The combination of our recently launched Shark Byte digital system and Skypersonic's patent pending software platform provides video resolution that will enable pilots to navigate more safely and execute commercial...

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NV5 Geospatial Gains Momentum in Canada with Series of

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Projects Include Largest Survey of Major Waterways in Montreal and Extensive Aerial Imagery Surveys of Rail Corridors in Northern Alberta

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Jan. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --  NV5 Geospatial[1], powered by Quantum Spatial, North America's largest geospatial data firm, has dramatically expanded its Canadian operations in 2020, having been selected to provide lidar, aerial imagery and geospatial analytics for projects that span five provinces. Most recently, NV5 Geospatial won and began acquiring data for the largest riverine topobathymetric lidar project, spanning over 900 linear kilometers (nearly 560 miles) of 28 principal watercourses for the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (the Montréal Metropolitan Community).

"Canada presents a significant growth opportunity for the company," said Mark Abatto, president and COO, NV5 Geospatial. "With several successful Canadian projects under our belt, we look forward to bringing our proven expertise and experience in new disciplines, including topobathymetric lidar, thermal mapping and analytics, for use in transportation, utilities, emergency management, forestry, construction and other key applications."

The topobathymetric lidar survey in Montreal is just one of the several projects NV5 Geospatial has undertaken during the past year. Others include:
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  • - Airborne topobathymetric lidar survey of the Chaudière, Petit-Saguenay, Saint-Jean, Batiscan and Sainte-Anne rivers for XEOS Imaging Inc. The data is destined to be used by the Quebec Ministry of Energy and

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Placekey, the new standard identifier for physical locations

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Placekey, the new standard identifier for physical locations embraced by the world's largest organizations, is now available for Snowflake

DENVER, Jan. 11, 2021 — (PRNewswire) — Placekey,[1] the universal standard identifier for physical places that launched in October with the backing of over 500 organizations, today announced an integration with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, with launch of itsSnowflake External Function[2] as part of a larger goal to make Placekey's identifier available to a wider audience.

Placekey, the free and open universal standard identifier for a physical place. Learn more at Placekey.io.

Placekey helps us increase flexibility and lower costs for prospective clients. -Zora Senat, VP Partnerships at Infutor

With this new integration, Snowflake[3] clients can now leverage Placekey's free and open physical places identification standard. Through the Snowflake External Function, the Placekey API will be accessible to Snowflake users without ever needing to leave  Snowflake's platform.

This new addition to the growing list of Placekey third-party integrations[4] will help organizations derive insights by joining location-related datasets easily, while solving problems like address matching, POI normalization, deduplication, and entity resolution. This extension allows easy access to Placekeys by using database queries to interact with location data in Snowflake's Data Cloud - the global data network that enables organizations to easily unify, integrate, analyze, and share data from Snowflake's platform. Placekey's universality means it finds use...

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GISCafe.com: Videos - GISCafe Bunker Broadcast : Brad Burgess,

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  6. ^visit uGRIDD (www.ugridd.com)
  7. ^Next» (www.GIScafe.com)
  8. ^View Video from uGRIDD : Brad Burgess, Business Development Manager (www.GIScafe.com)
  9. ^Visit uGRIDD (www.ugridd.com)
  10. ^View Video from XYZT : Bart Adams, CTO (www.GIScafe.com)
  11. ^Visit XYZT (xyzt.ai)
  12. ^View Video from Aquiline Drones : Barry Alexander, CEO (www.GIScafe.com)
  13. ^Visit Aquiline Drones (www.aquilinedrones.com)
  14. ^View Video from Elistair : Guilhem de Marliave, CEO (www.GIScafe.com)
  15. ^Visit Elistair (elistair.com)
  16. ^View Video from Measure Ground Control : Abigail Lacy, VP Sales (www.GIScafe.com)
  17. ^Visit Measure Ground Control (www.measure.com)
  18. ^View Video from Ware : Ian Smith, CEO (www.GIScafe.com)
  19. ^Visit Ware (www.getware.com)
  20. ^View Video from UP42 : Democratizing Access to Geospatial Technology (www.GIScafe.com)
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OGC seeks public comment on new CityJSON Community Standard

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CityJSON offers an easy-to-use alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML 2.0 for the storage and exchange of 3D city models.

7 January 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on its adoption of CityJSON as an OGC Community Standard[1].

CityJSON is a JSON[2]-based encoding for a subset of the OGC CityGML data model[3] (version 2.0.0). CityJSON defines ways to describe most of the common 3D features and objects found in cities (such as buildings, roads, rivers, bridges, vegetation, and city furniture) and the relationships between them. It also defines different standard levels of detail (LoDs) for the 3D objects, which allows different resolutions of objects for different applications and purposes.

A CityJSON file describes both the geometry (an object’s form) and the semantics (an object’s function) of the features in a given area, such as the buildings, roads, rivers, vegetation, and city furniture.

The aim of CityJSON is to offer an alternative to the GML encoding of CityGML, which can be verbose and complex to read and manipulate. CityJSON aims at being easy-to-use, both for reading datasets and for creating them. It was designed with programmers in mind, so that tools and APIs supporting it can be quickly built.

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GISCafe Voice Industry Predictions for 2021 – Part 1

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January 8th, 2021 by Susan Smith

Looking forward to 2021 brings with it a necessary looking backward at what geospatial organizations and providers have had to deal with in 2020. On a regular basis throughout the next two months, GISCafe Voice will post industry predictions from professional geospatial organizations, looking at what vectors are influencing the industry and what directions the technologies will take. This week we will hear from spokespeople from Maptek, Nearmap, Septentrio and Sinclair Industries. Autonomous solutions, partnering with other technology providers, mapping critical care centers such as testing centers, cybersecurity and increased accuracy and analytics are all areas that geospatial and mapping have stepped up to as a result of Covid-19. The technology was there, ready to meet the sudden and unanticipated demand. What does that mean going forward? Greater resilience and growth, innovation at a more rapid pace, and much more, according to these industry professionals.

Maptek CEO Eduardo Coloma

“This last year has necessitated an exponential growth in new work modalities. In 2021 we must continue to challenge traditional approaches and foster a change management mindset. Thinking smarter is the driver for the fourth industrial revolution,” according to Maptek CEO Eduardo Coloma.

“Mining is already seeing a massive consolidation of automated tasks, and...

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