Eric Colburn, PLS

Tag: MAPPS

  • MAPPS Announces Judges for Seventh Annual Geospatial Excellence Awards Competition

    MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms, today announced the five judges who will evaluate entries in the seventh annual “Geospatial Products and Services Excellence awards competition”. The independent judges have been selected to evaluate projects submitted for the Awards Competition that highlight the exceptional services, products, software and hardware produced by…

  • Ten Members Receive MAPPS President’s Award For Service

    MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, recognized ten individuals for their significant contributions to the association and the geospatial profession at an awards banquet held at association’s annual summer conference in Rockport, Maine.

  • MAPPS Commends Reintroduction of “Map it Once, Use it Many Times” Act in Congress

    MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association for private sector geospatial firms, today commended Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) for reintroducing H.R. 1604, the “Map It Once, Use It Many Times” Act on April 17. H.R. 1604 is intended to reform, consolidate, and reorganize federal geospatial activities. Recently, a number of Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports have identified…

  • MAPPS Elects New Officers And Directors

    MAPPS Elects New Officers And Directors

    MAPPS, the only national association of private sector geospatial firms, elected new members to its Board of Directors and a slate of officers to serve the association for 2012-2013. Jeff Lower, Vice President of Operations, Magnolia River Services, Inc. (Huntsville, AL) was elected to the position of President-Elect and will succeed to the office of…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup January 1, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup January 1, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: ArcGIS Online Overview Video Video-Has The Land Surveying Industry Let You Down? Carlson Takeoff R5 Speeds Up Converting PDF Files & Much More Trimble’s Kirkland to Discuss LightSquared Issue in MAPPS Winter Meeting Keynote Address 4 Ingredients for a Successful Professional Land Surveyor Business Web Presence Professional Land Surveyor Survey-Has…

  • Trimble’s Kirkland to Discuss LightSquared Issue in MAPPS Winter Meeting Keynote Address

    Trimble’s Kirkland to Discuss LightSquared Issue in MAPPS Winter Meeting Keynote Address

    Trimble’s Kirkland to Discuss LightSquared Issue in MAPPS Winter Meeting Keynote Address MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the national association of private sector geospatial firms, today announced that Jim Kirkland, vice president and general counsel of Trimble and a leader in the effort to defend GPS users from interference by the LightSquared system proposal, will be the keynote…

  • Third Win for Kappa Mapping at National Geospatial Excellence Awards Program

    Third Win for Kappa Mapping at National Geospatial Excellence Awards Program

    Third Win for Kappa Mapping at National Geospatial Excellence Awards Program Bangor, ME –  In November, Kappa Mapping took part in the fifth annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition and won an award in the Small Projects category for the third consecutive year. Kappa’s winning entry – Innovative Software use for Danbury Airport (DXR)…

  • MAPPS Launches State Chapter in Colorado

    Denver, CO, August 31, 2011 – A state chapter of MAPPS, the association of private sector geospatial firms, was announced today at the GIS in the Rockies conference in Denver, CO. Speaking at the conference, MAPPS Executive Director John Palatiello and Gary Outlaw, Merrick & Company (Aurora, CO), the first President of CO-MAPPS, said the…

  • Professional Land Surveyor News: MAPPS Seeks Legislation in Congress to Authorize “Imagery For The Nation”

    MAPPS Seeks Legislation in Congress to Authorize “Imagery for the Nation” “Making America Prosperous (MAP) Act” Would Create National Geospatial Image Maps A bill to authorize the program known within the geospatial community as “Imagery for the Nation” is being presented for introduction in Congress, MAPPS announced today. “‘Map it once, use it many times’ is…

  • ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Conference: DIGITAL MAPPING From Elevation to Information

    DIGITAL MAPPING From Elevation to Information ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Conference San Antonio, Texas November 16 to 19, 2009 ASPRS/MAPPS 2009 Specialty Conference MAPPS and ASPRS are once again organizing a dynamic conference around a specialty theme “Digital Mapping – From

  • MAPPS Identifies More Than $73 Billion in Potential Geospatial Spending in Stimulus Bill Analysis

    RESTON, VA, February 23, 2009 – The economic stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed into law last week by President Obama includes more than $73 billion in programs that will require geospatial data, technology, services and applications in at least 24 Federal agencies, according to an analysis by MAPPS (www.mapps.org), the association of geospatial…