TWINGEO: NEWS mapping and location data, allows us to deliver market-leading solutions and get closer to our partners and customers,” said Justin Duling, Senior Vice President, Commercial Director at Loqate. “We look forward to expanding our collaboration with HERE to answer future use cases for location data from our partners and customers.” The digital conversion of postal addresses into accurate latitude and longitude points plotted on a map (geocoding) has become a critical tool for everyday commerce. As customer journeys become further digitized, location data will be a foundational attribute to delivering superior experiences. “Every day, globally, millions of addresses are recorded or read by people and computers, all of which require validation for completeness and accuracy,” said Jason Bettinger, Head of Retail & Financial Services at HERE Technologies. “We’re thrilled to expand our ongoing partnership with Loqate as we combine best in class location technology to ensure businesses are only working with validated and enriched location data for their internal and customer needs.” The HERE map consists of multiple layers of data – such as postal and administrative boundaries, addresses, road networks and transport systems, points of interest and more. The data will enrich Loqate’s proprietary data curation capability that creates the premium reference data used by its global address capture and verification technology. Today, Loqate delivers one complete global address verification solution, made of two products, powered by leading global data providers: 1) Capture, a predictive type-ahead product that allows for interactive address capture of any global address in real-time at the point of new data creation; and 2) Verify, a product that can continuously update, verify and enhanced address databases, appending geocode, and reverse geocode, to those validated records.
Leica Geosystems brings in new 3D laser scanning bundle The new bundle consists of the Leica BLK360 imaging laser scanner, Leica Cyclone REGISTER 360 (BLK Edition) desktop software, and Leica Cyclone FIELD 360 for tablets and phones. Customers can get started straight out of the box with seamless connectivity and workflows from Leica Geosystems Reality Capture products to Autodesk’s Reality Computing and design solutions. With this bundle, Leica Geosystems will deliver point cloud production while Autodesk’s technology will consume the data. “We have been on a path with Autodesk to democratise the reality capture landscape through a blend of software and sensor technology,” said Faheem Khan, Leica Geosystems Vice President of Survey Solutions. “This new bundle provides an improved and seamless captureconsumption workflow for our customers with direct connectivity into the Autodesk ecosystem.” The new, streamlined workflow supports scan control, optional pre-registration, and GeoTagging in the field. It includes an automated and scalable registration and QA workflow that fully integrates with other Leica Geosystems reality capture solutions, such as Leica CloudWorx plug-ins for Autodesk products.
“For years Leica Geosystems and Autodesk have shared a common vision to provide industry professionals with a near-seamless data experience, which we continue to build upon,” said Bryan Otey, director of Autodesk Reality Solutions. “The Autodesk technology ecosystem offers project teams the ability to use information more efficiently from design through construction. From data capture to consumption, this is an important relationship for our customers.” 19
