Year: 2012
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Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup January 8, 2012
Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: UK Police Forces Embrace Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 3D Laser Scanning More Bad News for LightSquared From Sprint and President Obama Esri Releases National Geographic World Basemap The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use GeoEye Wins Multi-year, Multi-million Dollar Russian Contract Cartography:…
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UK Police Forces Embrace Leica Geosystems ScanStation C10 3D Laser Scanning
UK Police Forces Embrace Leica ScanStation C10 3D Laser Scanning 6 January 2012 (Milton Keynes, UK 5th January 2012) – Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the largest ever order of Leica ScanStation C10’s as UK Police Forces embrace High Definition SurveyingTM (HDS). The scanners will be supplied as part of a £2.7 million investment from the Department…
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More Bad News for LightSquared From Sprint and President Obama
The Bad, The Ugly and The LightScrewed News from around the web today was not good for LightSquared. Earlier this week, I wrote Sprint Grants LightSquared 30 More Days for FCC Approval, Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon?, and today it seems that possibly the Lightsquared wagon’s axle is now broken too. The bad news…
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Esri Releases National Geographic World Basemap
Highly Detailed Basemap Accessible via ArcGIS Online January 4, 2012 Redlands, California—In cooperation with National Geographic, Esri released the National Geographic World Map. Esri and National Geographic collaborated to produce a distinctive basemap that reflects National Geographic’s cartographic design, typographic style, and map policies. Designed to be aesthetically pleasing, the National Geographic World Map is…
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The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use
The National Land Survey of Finland Opens Topographic Datasets 1 May 2012 For Free Use The Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry issued a decree on 21 December 2011 on the fees of the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS). The decree prescribes that the NLS will open its topographic datasets to the public on 1…
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GeoEye Wins Multi-year, Multi-million Dollar Russian Contract
GeoEye and ScanEx to Provide High-resolution Satellite Data for Russia’s Countrywide Cadastral Project HERNDON, Va., Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it is working with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide millions of square kilometers of high-resolution satellite…
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Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt3-3 1973 US Army Video
Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt3-3 1973 US Army Part 3 of 3 of video from 1973 produced by the US Army on the mapmaking process. “EXPLAINS THE THEORY OF MAPMAKING, AND ILLUSTRATES THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED TO PRODUCE MAPS; PLANNING, SURVEYING, COMPILING, AND REPRODUCTION.” US Army training film TF5-4523 Watch the Cartography: “The Mapmaking…
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Autodesk 2012 Content Explorer Service Hot Fix 2
Autodesk 2012 Content Explorer Service Hot Fix 2 Here’s an AutoCAD 2012 hot fix which will fix issues you might be experiencing with Autodesk 2012 Content Explorer. Autodesk 2012 Content Explorer Service Hot Fix 2 This hotfix applies to the Autodesk 2012 Content Explorer Service (Public and Personal) and addresses the following issues: In some cases…
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CONSTRUCTION SPENDING HITS 17-MONTH HIGH IN NOVEMBER WITH MONTHLY GAINS IN ALL SEGMENTS
CONSTRUCTION SPENDING HITS 17-MONTH HIGH IN NOVEMBER WITH MONTHLY GAINS IN ALL SEGMENTS BUT PUBLIC SPENDING DOWN 5.3 PERCENT COMPARED TO LAST YEAR Date: January 3, 2012 Both Single- and Multifamily Homebuilding Improve from October and Year Ago; Private Nonresidential Increases from November 2010 are Widespread; Most Public Categories Drop from Year-Earlier Levels Construction spending totaled…
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Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half
Pending Home Sales Rise Again in November, Highest in a Year-and-a-Half Washington, DC, December 29, 2011 Pending home sales continued to gain in November and reached the highest level in 19 months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 7.3 percent to 100.1…
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Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt2-3 1973 US Army Video
Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt2-3 1973 US Army Part 2 of 3 of video from 1973 produced by the US Army on the mapmaking process. “EXPLAINS THE THEORY OF MAPMAKING, AND ILLUSTRATES THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED TO PRODUCE MAPS; PLANNING, SURVEYING, COMPILING, AND REPRODUCTION.” US Army training film TF5-4523 Watch the Cartography: “The Mapmaking…
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AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Survey Essential Template Framework
Announcing New AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Survey Essential Template Framework This is a digital download product of an AutoCAD Civil 3D Template called AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 Survey Essential Template Framework. My goal was to create an AutoCAD Civil 3D Template for those of you looking for an affordable base framework to build upon to…
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Sprint Grants LightSquared 30 More Days for FCC Approval, Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon?
Has Another Wheel Fallen Off LightSquared’s Wagon? Today, The Wall Street Journal reports that Sprint, who last year had signed a 15-year agreement with LightSquared to help that company build its proposed 4G LTE network, has given LightSquared a 30-day extension to get FCC approval. The original agreement had a December 31, 2011 deadline for…
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Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt1-3 1973 US Army Video
Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt1-3 1973 US Army Really interesting video from 1973 produced by the US Army on the mapmaking process. “EXPLAINS THE THEORY OF MAPMAKING, AND ILLUSTRATES THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES USED TO PRODUCE MAPS; PLANNING, SURVEYING, COMPILING, AND REPRODUCTION.” US Army training film TF5-4523 Watch the Cartography: “The Mapmaking Process” pt1-3 1973…