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Selected News from GIS Community
02/24/2019
Selected February 2019 News from GIS Community
Technology changes ways in which professionals and citizen collaborate in geospatial dimension. We picked several February news for you as most interesting ones.
Аutomatic vertical scanning for drones now available. Inspecting vertical surfaces previously required a lot of manual work. and so was a burden for professional drone users. Automatic Facade Scan tool from UgCS changes this.
https://www.geospatialworld.net/news/automatic-vertical-scanning-for-drones-now-available
Peering behind the mapping curtain. Mapbox, a location intelligence startup shares about “live maps” built not from traditional data surveys, but from data collected from hundreds of millions of location-enabled sensors in real time.
http://geospatial-solutions.com/peering-behind-the-mapping-curtain/
Planet’s breadloaf-sized satellites capture Earth surface. Planet Co. now flying 300 12-pound satellites, which transmit 1.2 million images of high-resolution daily. Computer algorithms are being trained to look at new features day to day to identify new roads, buildings, etc.
http://geospatial-solutions.com/planets-breadloaf-sized-satellites-capture-earth-surface/
New ways to add and format text on your ArcGIS Hub sites. Esri continues to empower teams and communities having recently added new features such as text formatting, creating calls-to-action, and customizing pages in ‘code view’.
Esri Press Releases ‘Women and GIS: Mapping Their Stories’. Read about 23 prominent women profiles working in such diverse fields as oceanography, archeology, education, social justice, conservation biology, and government.
https://www.gislounge.com/esri-press-releases-women-and-gis-mapping-their-stories/
Redrawing the Map: How the World’s Climate Zones Are Shifting. This article by Nicola Jones published a while ago on E360 uses maps to tell us how climate has been visibly changing around us redrawing so many lines.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/redrawing-the-map-how-the-worlds-climate-zones-are-shifting
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Rextag: first 2019 GIS Data Update
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As promised, the latest Rextag GIS Data Update has been released. Here are some of the highlights and some examples of what you will find in the overhauled first update of 2019.
Drillinginfo & Rextag Join Forces For New Midstream Business Product
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Drillinginfo has announced a new strategic collaboration with Hart Energy’s Rextag unit to create a combined midstream business product. The Drillinginfo-Rextag integration provides a cutting-edge solution with all relevant datasets in one platform, which provides powerful context and unprecedented infrastructure siting and mapping.
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Rangeland Energy has agreed to sell Rangeland Midstream Canada to Kingston Midstream Alberta and remains committed to future Canadian midstream investments. Texas-based Rangeland Energy, supported by financial partner EnCap Flatrock Midstream, has inked a deal to sell its Canadian subsidiary, Rangeland Midstream Canada Ltd., to Calgary's Kingston Midstream Alberta Ltd. for cash.
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The merger between ONEOK and Magellan received approval from Magellan shareholders, securing just 55% of the total votes at Magellan’s meeting on Sept. 21. ONEOK Inc. has successfully concluded the acquisition of Magellan Midstream Partners LP on Sept. 25. The deal will bring together their respective assets and expertise, resulting in a powerful entity boasting an extensive network of approximately 25,000 miles of pipelines primarily focused on transporting liquids.
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Viper Energy's deal, comprised of cash and equity, secures an additional 2,800 net royalty acres in the Midland Basin and 1,800 in the Delaware Basin. Viper Energy Partners LP, a Diamondback Energy Inc. subsidiary, has inked a deal to acquire mineral and royalty interests in the Permian Basin. The deal, valued at around $1 billion, is with Warwick Capital Partners and GRP Energy Capital. Viper was established by Diamondback with the purpose of owning, purchasing, and capitalizing on oil and natural gas assets in North America, specifically targeting mineral and royalty interests.