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A complete guide to data mapping
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Data mapping is an essential step in uncovering key insights from data. It helps establish relationships between…
Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages
In February 2022, Graeme Cavers and his team of archaeologists set off in search of a mysterious underground passage called a souterrain. There are around…
Luminar buys lidar 3D mapping data company Civil Maps
Lidar hardware company Luminar announced it has acquired Civil Maps, a lidar data company based in San Francisco. The acquisition brings ultra-detailed and…
Govt introduces National Geospatial Policy to promote startups, advanced tech
The 13-year guideline aims to promote the country's geospatial data industry and develop a national framework to use such data for improving…
Microsoft, Meta and Amazon join hands to take on Google in mapping space, here’s how – Times…
The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has announced that it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and Netherlands-based…
Tech giants band together to set up open-source mapping platform
The Linux Foundation has announced plans to create an interoperable open map data set that it will call the Overture Maps Foundation. The project was…
Google Rivals Introduce Overture Maps Foundation With Open Access to Mapping Data
Google rivals on Thursday unveiled a project to make freely available data sets for map features to be built into online offerings.Alphabet-owned Google…
Google’s stranglehold on the mapping space could be challenged by new initiative from Meta,…
Meta, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and mapping company TomTom have launched a new mapping initiative in partnership with The Linux Foundation that…
Mapping the old with the new: Handheld 3D scanning of Oxford’s Sheldonian Theater
Credit: University of Oxford
A collaborative project…