Archives for June 20, 2011

Elop Announces Nokia’s Strategy to Connect the next Billion and the Nokia N9

June 20, 2011 by gisuser

From the Nokia Connection livestream, Nokia’s new strategy… Stephen Elop took the stage to address the Singapore crowd and the Global web audience and immediately recalled Feb 2011 and Nokia’s announcement to use the Win Mobile platform as a standard. This will play a big role in Nokia’s plan for connecting the next billion to the Internet. Part one of the strategy comes in Nokia’s planned release of their next dual SIM device, the Nokia C2-03.

WhereCampDC IgniteSpatial Videos

June 20, 2011 by gisuser

Yes indeed, you’ve likely been waiting patiently but now there’s no more waiting… the videos from IgniteSpatial at WhereCampDC are now online… You can visit the website HERE or jump to the event YouTube Channel HERE… enjoy!

LightSquare Responds to the Lightsquare GPS Interference Issue

June 20, 2011 by gisuser

Lightsquared has just today responded to the company’s solution to the “GPS issue” in a PR announcement. According to the company, their solution will permit LightSquared to proceed with its business plan, protect the public’s stake in GPS and lay the foundation for the future co-existence of a variety of wireless broadband services and GPS. Regarding the tests… Early test results indicated that one of LightSquared’s 10MHz blocks of frequencies poses interference to many GPS receivers. Test results show this lower block of frequencies is largely free of interference issues with the exception of a limited number of high precision GPS receivers that are specifically designed to rely on LightSquared’s spectrum.

From the company… LightSquared believes that its next-generation, 4G LTE wholesale network can live harmoniously, side-by-side, with GPS users.

See more details in the official PR announcement from Lightsquared

Recall also that Esri has recently announced that a special forum will take place at the Survey Summit to address the Lightsquared issue – See Surveyors to Discuss LightSquared Issue at Survey Summit-ACSM Annual Conference

Trimble Supports Surveying Workflows with Trimble Business Center

June 20, 2011 by gisuser

Today Trimble announced the latest update to the Trimble Business Center, now at Version 2.5 – a desktop complement to Trimble’s full range of survey solutions. Trimble Business Center is an office desktop solution that integrates common survey office processing tasks for GNSS and optical terrestrial surveying data into a single, unified package. The new Trimble Business Center 2.50 and the Data Processing Service provide surveyors with substantial new capabilities for processing, enhancing and customizing their survey data and collaborating with the field survey team. New features include:

Start processing integrated survey projects in Trimble Business Center
Readily export/import more reduced-point and observed-point information to/from other applications
Easily compute weighted averages for point coordinates; create and deliver stunning panoramic displays
Perform complicated tasks easily with step-by-step Workflow Guides;
Easily create custom, geo-referenced images to use in the field with Trimble Access;
media files can now be easily displayed, edited, and exported to GIS and Google Earth.

See more details HERE or Like the Business Center on facebook

New, Free iGPSGIS data collection app for iPhone

June 20, 2011 by gisuser

I recently loaded the new free iGPSGIS data collection app for iOS and I must say from the first look that it’s quite robust and very impressive! Besides displaying the GPS coordinates of a geographic location, iGPSGIS also provides a powerful user interface to access the following tasks:

Create sampling grids
Display Google Map as the background map
Import Shapefiles
Collect multi-layer GPS/GIS data
Digitize points, lines and areas
Assign symbols and attributes to Features
View/Edit the collected data
View the area of an enclosed region