Bentley Systems, Incorporated has announced its Blyncsy solution is being used by the Hawaii Department of Transportation (Hawaii DOT) in the Eyes on the Road program—an initiative driven by the Hawaii DOT in partnership with The University of Hawaii to enhance roadway safety statewide.
The Eyes on the Road project provides 1,000 free high-resolution dash cameras to Hawaii residents to install in …
Virtual Surveyor has added Local Coordinate System functionality to the 10.2 release of its smart drone surveying package. This means users can easily define a local coordinate system and work with new and existing survey data in those systems.
The Virtual Surveyor V10.2 package is an incredibly robust tool for creating surveys from drone images and …
Vexcel Imaging highlights the City of Espoo, Finland, and its continued success in building one of Europe’s most advanced open 3D city models, powered by high-resolution nadir and oblique imagery captured with Vexcel’s UltraCam Osprey systems. Espoo’s long-term imaging strategy – implemented through service providers using UltraCam Osprey cameras since 2017 – has enabled the city to develop a consistent, scalable, highly accurate …
Ghana opened the joint AfricaGIS 2025 and 11th United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa conference in Accra on Tuesday, November 17, 2025, with a call for stronger investment and policy changes to advance the continent’s use of geospatial information.
Deputy Minister of Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Alhaji Yusif Sulemana, said Ghana is …
Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchi, has been recognised by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay as the Open Source Geospatial Knowledge Centre for the Tiruchi district. The recognition, granted under the Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education, Geographic Information System (FOSSEE GIS) initiative, marks a major step in expanding open source learning and geospatial …
MapmyIndia has announced two major government partnerships: a ₹110 crore contract with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) and a deal to build Survey of India’s National Geo-Spatial Platform, marking a significant expansion of its government business.
For IOCL, the company will develop an integrated tracking and management system for 23,000 LPG trucks across 150 locations, featuring geofencing, …
The Government of Japan has granted approximately 649 million yen (US$4.3 million) to Laos to upgrade outdated topographic maps and establish an online geospatial data system.
A signing ceremony for the Exchange of Notes on the Economic and Social Development Programme (Geospatial Data Platform) took place on October 22 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in …
India has been elected as the Co-Chair of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Asia and the Pacific (UN-GGIM-AP), marking a significant milestone in the country’s growing leadership in the global geospatial sector. India was represented in the election by Hitesh Kumar S. Makwana, IAS, Surveyor General of India.
The elections …
The ICAO Assembly has endorsed the determination of its governing Council that recurring incidents of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) originating from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the territory of the Russian Federation constitute infractions of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation.
Through two Resolutions, the ICAO Assembly …
The European Space Agency has inaugurated a new deep space antenna in Australia as part of efforts to strengthen ties between Europe and Australia in space.
At an Oct. 4 event in New Norcia, Western Australia, ESA marked the completion of a new 35-meter antenna for communicating with spacecraft throughout the solar system. The antenna is …
