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    WorldView-3 Remote Sensing Spacecraft Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base for Launch

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    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has delivered the next-generation commercial remote sensing satellite built for DigitalGlobe, to the launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The WorldView-3 satellite is slated to fly aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in mid-August for DigitalGlobe, a leading provider of commercial high-resolution earth observation and advanced geospatial solutions.   The WorldView-3 spacecraft passed a full suite of environmental, function

    Microsoft Shutting Down MapPoint in Favor of Bing Maps

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    For years, Microsoft has supported its older MapPoint technology in addition to its online Bing Maps product, but that duality is coming to an end.   The company has posted a notice to its website that it plans to end work on MapPoint technologies, though online support will run through at least July 2015. MapPoint formed the heart of a number of products, most notably Streets & Trips. It is also available as a $299 software tool that integrates with Office, allowing companies to merge bus

    Tech Preview of ArcGIS for Azure now available

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    The ArcGIS Team is excited to announce that the Tech Preview ArcGIS for Azure Starter Package is now available for download. This package includes step-by-step documentation and scripts to help you quickly deploy ArcGIS 10.2.2 for Server on the Microsoft Azure Cloud.    The package consists of a set of workflow driven scripts (using Windows PowerShell) that you can use to create VM Images, deploy working sites, and optionally register an enterprise geodatabase in Microsoft Azure SQL Database a

    Geodetic Transformation Method Inquiry

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    What is the difference between this three methods of transformation?   I am now setting parameters for Philippines Reference System of 1992 in GeoCalc of GeoComp Systems.     Although I'm sure that my parameters are correct, I can get a fine result that is corresponding with our government conversion results.     One thing that catches my attention is the transformation method: In one of my office mate geocalc that runs on 32 bit, I saw a "MOLODENSKY method"   Then in our Government W

    Odyssey.js from CartoDB: Telling stories with maps

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    Check out this beautiful tool for combining story with maps. With a $35,000 grant from the Knight Prototype Fund, creators of the cloud-computing platform CartoDB have released a beta of the open-source tool.    CartoDB hopes the tool will push the art of storytelling into new bounds, rather than the traditional form of text, photos and videos.   The Knight Prototype Fund was established about a year-and-a-half ago, says Chris Barr, media innovation associate at the Knight Foundation. The fu

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