Mapping and geomapping giant Esri acquired nFrames, a photogrammetry software company based in Stuttgart, Germany, that automates the process of creating 3D maps from photos and LiDAR data. Terms of ...

Canada’s National Elevation Data Strategy is celebrating a decade of transforming how businesses, governments and communities ...

Geospatial engineers measure the physical features of the Earth with great precision. Combine a love of math, computing, and the outdoors with tools ranging from remote-sensing systems to transits to ...

A new high-resolution ground mapping dataset for the Dunedin and Mosgiel urban areas is now available free for public use - revealing in 3D the urban areas’ bared land surfaces. The geospatial dataset ...

Laser technology known as LiDAR digitally removes the forest canopy to reveal ancient ruins below, showing that Maya cities such as Tikal were much larger than ground-based research had suggested.

This page lists geospatial data (GIS data) that is produced by the Governments of Canada, Quebec, Ontario, and the City of Montreal. The geospatial data on this website consists of: census geography ...

This story appears in the December 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. For cartographers and cartophiles, Harold Fisk’s 1944 maps of the lower Mississippi River are a seminal work. In the ...

Archaeologists discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the jungles of southeastern Mexico. They located the ruins by analyzing 3D mapping data collected from the air using lasers. These sites ...