Episode 55

Just how accurate is accurate?  Can better accuracy inside your mobile phone mean a new opportunity for location specialists and consumers?  The Broadcom Dual Frequency GPS chip released in late 2017 providing 10cm accuracy hasn’t found the home you might expect appearing in only one smartphone in 2018.

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Spatial News

• Bluefield GIS Draw Maps

https://marketplace.arcgis.com/listing.html?id=e930e2b2274846a984fe70fe22b08581

• 5 times it wasn’t a drone after all

https://dronelife.com/2019/01/24/5-times-it-wasnt-a-drone-after-all/

• Map Austin – Steetcred

https://www.streetcred.co/blog/2019/2/4/announcing-mapaustin

• There’s a new CEO at Carto

https://carto.com/blog/introducing-new-ceo/

• The privacy of location

https://blog.mapbox.com/prioritizing-privacy-when-using-location-in-apps-f31cdec85fc9

• What’s new in ArcGIS Pro 2.3

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/announcements/arcgis-pro-2-3-is-here/

• Nuclear War

https://blog.mapbox.com/mapping-a-nuclear-detonation-bfd3057b81f3

https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

• Airobotics Wins Unique Drone Flight Approval Down Under

https://dronelife.com/2019/01/22/airobotics-wins-unique-drone-flight-approval-down-under/

• Esri Seeks to woo developers

http://geoawesomeness.com/esri-seeks-to-woo-developers-with-new-affordable-arcgis-plans/

Topic of the Week

• Broadcom BCM47755 Chip

https://www.gpsworld.com/swift-navigation-starling-gnss-engine-available-with-broadcom-bcm47755-chip/