Tele Atlas joint venture Tele Atlas Kalyani India Ltd. has become the first value-added reseller of digital maps of India produced by the country's national surveying and mapping organization, the Survey of India (SOI).
Fujitsu's latest ultra mobile PC (UMPC) in the North American market boasts a GPS receiver and Garmin Mobile PC software, which features pre-loaded maps of the United States and Canada and turn-by-turn, voice-prompted navigation.
Hemisphere GPS reported a 46 percent increase in revenues in the third quarter (Q3) to $13.2 million, enabling it to narrow its losses to $200,000.
Trimble has acquired the assets of privately held Tru Count Inc., a manufacturer of air and electric clutches that are compatible with Trimble's GPS guidance technology and are used on agricultural planters.
Topcon Positioning Systems is expanding its relationship with OEM partner GeoAge Inc., with GeoAge now representing TopCon across the entire United States.
The annual GIS Day this year will be held on Wednesday, November 19, as part of Geography Awareness Week.
Global Minds Inc. has announced that its data streams from Metro Vancouver's Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) GPS Service for Vancouver, Canada, can now be accessed via the Internet.
On October 28 GPS World survey and construction Editor Eric Gakstatter will be discussing the U.S. Department of Defense GPS Wing's proposal to discontinue supporting Civil P(Y) semi-codeless on GPS L1 and L2 after December 31, 2020 — rendering a massive amount of high-precision GPS equipment obsolete. The webinar is hosted by GPS World and sponsored by Magellan GPS.
Magellan has introduced a post-processing option and new features, including 3D shapefile support, for MobileMapper 6, its low-cost handheld GIS/GPS receiver.
