Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS mapping software and solutions, announced that Indocement, a cement manufacturer company in Indonesia, used SuperPad 3.1a to complete field data collection for helping the management make informative decisions and company policies with accurate information about cement, production plants, vehicle dispatching, etc.

To improve overall operational efficiency and achieve a significant saving in labor and vehicle dispatching costs, the mobile GIS software allows Indocement to capture and report surveyed data, as well as update database to effectively distribute and manage the use of the company’s resources, making improvement in its products and services.

SuperPad 3.1a offers Online Map Tool which enables surveyors to apply online map sources like OpenStreetMap as the base maps to increase survey efficiency and achieve great cost-saving in data preparation. In addition, GNSS driver is also available to record satellite signals information while collecting spatial data and consequently improve the accuracy of the collected data.

To widely promote the use of GIS technology in Indonesia, Datascrip has assisted many government sectors and enterprises in establishing integrated solutions using SuperGIS mapping software to meet their needs of geospatial applications. By working in collaboration with Datascrip, Supergeo expects to achieve new market penetration in the Indonesian market.

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Parco Naturale del Conero, Italy employed SuperPad 3.1a to efficiently capture spatial and attribute data for helping develop and implement feasible park management plans to sustain a balance between human needs and nature.

Today, the increasing environmental awareness has promoted the conservation on everyone's minds. Public parks are considered as effective approaches to protect and preserve nature. GIS allows ecologists and decision makers to better understand the natural environment through accurate geographical data and analysis and therefore to make prompt decisions on sustainable natural resource management.  

With an easy-to-use user interface and smart editing tools, SuperPad 3.1a allows surveyors to effortlessly collect, display, and report environmental data for greater open space protection, conservation practices, as well as park maintenance and management. The mobile GIS software also offers Online Map Tool that enables users to improve field operations by applying online map sources like OpenStreetMap as basemaps without preparing pre-generated map ahead.

Helix S.r.l. is Supergeo’s principal business partner in Italy. The company focuses on providing the local governments and enterprises with custom GIS platforms to overcome their geospatial-related problems. Supergeo will continue cooperating closely with Helix S.r.l. in order to meet the demand of GIS solutions in the broad European market.    

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced the new release of SuperPad 3.1a. The full-function Mobile GIS software helps surveyors improve the accuracy and reliability of GIS data.

Designed for effective field mapping and survey, SuperPad 3.1a is capable of helping surveyors carry out measurements, collect and edit spatial data with Windows Mobile devices, and greatly enhance the validity and usability of data.

In addition to supporting GPS satellite add-on to comprehend real-time GPS signal information, SuperPad 3.1a performs Online Map Tool that allows users to apply open map sources such as OpenStreetMap as the basemap in field surveying.

Moreover, the enhanced manipulation interface and editing function are available for supporting feature measurement and improving connection with SuperGIS Server services for data synchronization.

To optimize the accuracy of collected data, GNSS driver in SuperPad 3.1a enables to record satellite signals information while collecting spatial data. Consequently, users can add the collected data to SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a and post-process it with differential GPS add-on to increase the accuracy of spatial data. 

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has been dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Ok, I did it again, way too much time since our last batch mode edition, but here it is, thanks for your patience!

On the open source / open data front:

• Amongst the numerous FOSS4G summaries out there, I selected Paul's for you to read... and here's to watch, the FOSS4G talks on YouTube, that's 86 videos. Amongst what else happened at FOSS4G this year, Arnulf Christl Received the Sol Katz Award
• Open source GIS software not ready for real maps? Look at this FOSS4G State of the Art Digital Cartography Collection
• We now know what's new in GeoServer 2.4, thanks! :)
• That's easy, mapping csv files with Leaflet Simple CSV
• This demonstrate how OpenStreetMap data is great, New York City and OpenStreetMap Collaborating Through Open Data
• And yes the recent iD editor helped OSM and here's OpenStreetMap's Contributor Community Visualized - Individual by Individual
• The open source GeoMesa software proposal seems interesting, 'a foundation for storing, querying, and transforming spatio-temporal data in Accumulo [read the cloud]'
• OSGeo officially has the non-profit status to the eyes of the IRS
• On Creating a WebGL Earth with three.js, a topic mentioned before
• I also became aware of the GeoTriple / Geozilla open source software to handle WMS services, Windows-only
• Already, MapStore 1.3.0 released

On the Esri front:

• Here's What’s New in ArcGIS Online (September), including the ArcGIS Marketplace, CityEngine Web Viewer and more
• A new term pushed by Esri, What is CyberGIS?, essentially, it's WebGIS / CloudGIS to me
• A list of ArcGIS Online Learning & Help Resources
• Another major update to Esri's World Topographic Map, specifically for France
• There's ArcGIS API for JavaScript Version 3.7 Released with lots of new features

On the Google front:

• For developers, Full screen maps and new marker features now available in the Google Maps Mobile APIs, with marker animations!
• A hot topic, Mapping climate change in Google Earth
• Here's how to Embed your Google+ posts into Google Earth
• The GEB shares The best 3D models of all time for Google Earth
• Street View arrives at CERN
• Google share a blog entry on The HALO Trust: Helping communities reclaim the land with Google Maps for Business, but you know me, as much as I like Google, I still can't understand why they don't user OpenStreetMap data

Discussed over Slashdot:

• Metadata On How You Drive Also Reveals Where You Drive
• Ordnance Survey Creates Minecraft Model of Great Britain
• Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap
• Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data
• Bypassing US GPS Limits For Active Guided Rockets
• Yeah, privacy... NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City
• I tell you, we'll see this on the roads sooner than later, How Google, Tesla, and Uber Could Team Up For the Driverless Taxis of the Future
• Regulations need to be updated, FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods
• Social and location, Wi-Fi Sniffing Lets Researchers Build Graph of Offline Social Networks
• Researchers Develop the Most Detailed Map of Gravitational Variations Ever

In the miscellaneous category:

• Last time we mentioned GeoGit was a year ago, Geoff shares an entry named Distributed spatial data management with long transactions
• An excellent reminder of the contributions of SAR imagery, SAR – we love it, we hate it. Take a general look!
• Or even more general, an ESA article named Looking to the future of Earth observation
• More easy access to Landsat data from the ESA, currently, it's Landsat 5 data, with Landsat 7 planned
• Rumors are rumors, Apple's Maps Team Hiring Web UI Designer for 'New Secret Project', maybe they need such a project, Apple's Maps App Directs Alaska Drivers onto Airport Taxiway
• Still Apple related, Tidbits discusses The Promise of iBeacons in iOS 7, to help you locate things around you via Bluetooth
• A real improvement, now wireless, 3DConnexion releases their wireless SpaceMouse
• It's been several years that we mentioned eCognition, well, its version 8.9 has been released
• You can Add MapBox to iOS 7 with One Line of Code
• Here's an excellent question we'll eventually have to answer, Can crowdsourced land cover data be used as an authoritative data source ?
• Yahoo's not dead yet, Updated Yahoo Maps for the U.S. which includes public transit and pedestrian routing

In the maps category:

• APB links to a long series of maps related to drug use in the U.S., from a survey, impressive stats
• An excellent way to understand geographic projections, This is Your Brain on Maps
• Poison, Mapping Arsenic in the United States Is Not Pretty
• My wife would love this, Mapping emotions across the World
• Some free time? Things that look like other things in Google Earth

And the final bonus, totally unrelated to geospatial though, if you have a smartphone or tablet, try Just a Reflektor

Here's the recent geonews in batch mode. With FOSS4G next week, I expect exciting news soon!

On the open source / open data front:

• OpenStreetMap's State of the Map ended, here's an outsider overview, keywords: growing and healthy
• It's been a while since we mentioned that one, New MapProxy 1.6.0 released, a reminder, "It caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client"
• GeoMoose is now officially an OSGeo project, reminder, it's an "Open Source Web Client JavaScript Framework for displaying distributed GIS data"
• Paul shows us Census Mapping Made Easy with open software

On the Esri front:

• Esri added Landscape Layers to ArcGIS, "over 60 layers are available at your fingertips as input to geoprocessing models and for the creation of beautiful and informative interactive web maps"
• Here's for next Tuesday, Check Out What’s Coming in ArcGIS Online
• Esri also introduced GeoEnrichment for JavaScript developers, which helps you "create a web app that’s full of interactive demographic, consumer spending, and lifestyle data for the viewers of your map"

On the Google front:

• The GEB shares More great Google Earth resources for teachers
• Google invites us to Explore the Galapagos’ biodiversity with Street View, and why not boats, Kurt shares the R/V Falkor in Street View and still on the same topic, Updated Street View imagery of tsunami-affected areas of northeastern Japan, including the exclusion zone
• Same old story still making the news, Court Declares Google Must Face Wiretap Charges For Wi-Fi Snooping when collecting data for StreetView
• In the trivia category, Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case
• Nice to look at, Tri-bridges around the world, three-way bridges

In the everything-else category:

• Bing Maps got a major imagery update, 13 Million Square Kilometers of Imagery, or 315.92 terabytes
• Here's a beautiful 4-minutes video on the last 50 years of the satellite industry made by DigitalGlobe
• Amazon improves its geo offerings with a New Geo Library for Amazon DynamoDB, allowing a basic set of spatial queries
• Another way Apple Maps will improve, Apple Working to Leverage New 'M7' Motion-Sensing Chip for Mapping Improvements
• Wired reviews the book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by Harvard's John Edward Huth
• An OGC entry named Smart Cities Depend on Smart Location Communication
• Efforts mentioned before, 3 million data points collected by Safecast to warn Japan about radiation
• Yes, the NSA knows where you've been, NSA Can Spy On Data From Smart Phones, Including Blackberry
• Geoff has an entry on the successful use of satellite imagery to reduce illegal deforestation in Brazil
• On GhettoTracker and segregation through geospatial knowledge, Could Technology Create Modern-Day 'Leper Colonies'?
• When geospatial apps goes too far, New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car', this other app might be more useful: Dangerous Neighbourhood? Kovert App Will Navigate With Vibration From Your Pocket
• In the maps category, Wired offers links and maps on The Geography of American Agriculture

Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperPad 3.1a, the full-function Mobile GIS software, will be released for improved accuracy and currency of GIS Data.

Especially designed for mobile GIS and outdoor mapping, SuperPad 3.1a is capable of helping surveyors carry out measurements, collect and edit spatial data with Windows Mobile devices, and greatly enhance the validity and usability of data.

In addition to supporting GPS satellite extension to comprehend real-time GPS signal information, the latest SuperPad 3.1a performs Online Map Tool that allows users to apply open map sources like OpenStreetMap as the basemap in field surveying. Moreover, the enhanced manipulation interface and editing function are available for supporting feature measurement and improving connection with SuperGIS Server services for data synchronization.

To improve the accuracy of field data collection, SuperPad 3.1a provides surveyors with GNSS driver to record the data through satellite signal. Therefore, they can load the collected data to SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a and adjust it with DGPS Add-on for precise data acquisition.

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has been dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that SuperSurv 3.1a Beta, the mobile GIS application for Android devices, is available for improving data collection and filed operations.

SuperSurv 3.1 enables surveyors to overlay layers in their tablets or smart devices to effortlessly collect surveyed data using GPS and waypoint guidance tools. The mobile GIS software supports global coordinate system settings, helping users save the collected data of point, line and polygon in SHP, GEO or KML formats for further application use.

Primarily leveraging the connection of SuperGIS Server 3.1a, SuperSurv 3.1a allows to access the server services and to edit feature service online for seamless data synchronization. In addition, the Online Map Tool supports to apply online map sources like OpenStreetMap and Google Maps as reference basemap for efficient field surveys.

To efficiently display the attribute data in multi-languages in other GIS applications, the code page settings will also be added into “Creating a New Layer.”

A batch mode edition while on holidays. Next one will be late August since I'll be away from computers (and even without electricity!) for a few weeks.

From the open source / open data front:

• With open source software, you can get Super Sharp 50cm Pléiades Satellite Imagery on MapBox, "Any point on Earth, everyday, with 50cm resolution. With this guide you can go from image download to rendered maps in minutes, all with open software."
• Here's a Digital Trends article named Google Map Maker vs. OpenStreetMap: Which mapping service rules them all?
• With Foursquare direct OpenStreetMap editing, could encourage others to provide the same direct OSM editing (via Mapperz)
• Fiona 1.0 released, "Fiona is OGR's neat, nimble, no tears API", a Python library
• Work continues, OpenLayers 3.0 alpha 4
• Interesting, Why OpenGeo Has Taken on Outside Investment

From the Esri front:

• There's New Developer Subscriptions for ArcGIS Online​
• Esri and open source, New Esri Open Source Javascript Projects: Esri-Leaflet, Geoservices.js, Terraformer, Pushlet
• Still competing, Esri and MapBox play well together via Arc2Earth
• More integration with Microsoft too, Esri Maps for SharePoint 3.0 Released!

From the Google front: 

• Google is Introducing “Views” - A new way to contribute your 360° photo spheres to Google Maps
• Many will be happy, Google pushing out 3D Imagery at a rapid pace, with about 150 new cities with the 3D imagery
• Not intuitive, What the imagery dates really mean in Google Earth
• Tips on Making high-quality movies with Google Earth
• I have one too and I agree, The SpaceNavigator remains the best way to use Google Earth

A big bunch of geospatial-related news discussed over Slashdot:

• We mentioned a few times GPS spoofing, Students Hijack $80 Million Superyacht With GPS Spoofing
• Autonomous, aka driverless cars, are really getting closer, Full-Size Remote Control Cars
• For 3D printing, Fuel3D Start-Up Promises Affordable Point-and-Shoot 3D Scanner
• And an 'undo', 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function
• Privacy again, Fifth Circuit Upholds Warrantless Cellphone Location Tracking
• Privacy in Russia, Moscow Subway To Use Special Devices To Read Data On Passengers' Phones
• And we told you before that RFID isn't safe, Long Range RFID Hacking Tool To Be Released At Black Hat
• Drones in the sky? No, that's underwater drones now, DARPA Hydra: An Unmanned Sub Mothership to Deploy Drones
• Stores too, Retail Stores Plan Elaborate Ways To Track You
• Crowdsourcing the perception of cities via pictures, MIT's "Hot Or Not" Site For Neighborhoods Could Help Shape Cities
• If you feel up to, DIY Satellite Tracking
• To end with a map, A Circular New York City Subway Map To Straighten Things Out

In the everything-else category:

• Geoff shares a summary of the UN report on The future of national mapping agencies over the next 5-10 years - this is a must read even to those not in the governmental sector
• More free imagery, from the Sentinel satellite this time, The European Commission Plans Remote Sensing Satellites and Free Access to their Data  
• Apple is looking to improving power management of mobile devices by remembering charging locations and usage patterns 
• Interested in contributing to Apple Maps? Apple Filling Out its 'Ground Truth' Mapping Team with New Regional and Local Job Listings
• For your non-geo colleagues, Get to Know a Projection: Mercator
• Here's a 4-minutes video, DigitalGlobe takes a look at the last 50 years of the satellite industry
• An ESA article on watching wetlands from space

In the maps category:

• Cars, Visualizing New York’s Road Accidents With the Interactive ‘Crashmapper’

Supergeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, announced that Android-powered SuperSurv 3.1a will be released with the enhanced connection of SuperGIS Server 3.1a services.

SuperSurv is the mobile GIS application for Android devices, which enables field surveyors to overlay layers in tablets or smart phones to collect spatial data, position with GPS, use waypoint guidance, etc. Moreover, the mobile GIS software supports global coordinate system settings, allowing users to save the collected data of point, line and polygon in SHP, GEO or KML formats for further application use.

Primarily leveraging the connection of SuperGIS Server 3.1a, SuperSurv 3.1a allows to access the server services and to edit feature service online to synchronize the updated feature and attribute data with server.

In addition, Online Map Tool will be offered to support OpenStreetMap and Google Maps as reference basemap for field surveys. To efficiently display the attribute data in different languages in other GIS applications, The code page settings will also be added into “Creating a New Layer.”

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About Supergeo

Supergeo Technologies Inc. is a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions. Since the establishment, Supergeo has been dedicated to providing state-of-the-art geospatial technologies and comprehensive services for customers around the world. It is our vision to help users utilize geospatial technologies to create a better world.

Supergeo software and applications have been spread over the world to be the backbone of the world’s mapping and spatial analysis. Supergeo is the professional GIS vendor, providing GIS-related users with complete GIS solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms.

A week ago MapBox released the excellent and nicely designed OpenStreetMap Data Report. Here's the blog entry about the report. Really worth looking at the report, even if it's just for appreciating its superb presentation.

From the entry: "We've looked back on the project's 10 years in the making, the skyrocket growth to over 1 million users, 21 million miles, and 78 million buildings, and tried for the first time to tell the story of OpenStreetMap as a whole in data. We have traced through OpenStreetMap's 67,629,368 roads and tallied up the incredible sum of 21 million miles - that's 40 years of driving at 60 miles per hour."

Other OSM-related news:

• The beta version of iD 1.1, tuning OpenStreetMap editing
• Here's a scientific article named Towards generating highly detailed 3D CityGML models from OpenStreetMap