TruPulse 360B laser rangefinder - Seamless offsets with Trimble Handhelds

If you’ve ever been stuck under a tree canopy or tried to capture a point which would require you to lose satellite reception, the LaserTech TruPulse 360B is a great solution for creating real-time offsets directly in your Trimble handheld. In our testing environment, we hooked up the 360B to a new GeoXH 2008 series [...]

ESRI Includes ArcPad in its small government ELA program

The Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) program now offers an option to add unlimited access to ArcPad and ArcPad Application Builder via the ArcPad add-on option.
This offer is available to customers who have entered into or are purchasing an ESRI® Small Municipal and County Government Enterprise License Agreement.
Add-on prices per population [...]

Online Training - GPS Mapping for GIS - June 11

GEO-Jobe is now offering an instructor-led online course for Trimble GPS users. The GPS Mapping for GIS course includes the following:

Fundamentals of GPS

Satellite requirements
Working with base stations

Real-time vs. Post-processing

Overview of TerraSync

Importing and using a data dictionary
Importing background layers
Logging features
Logging attributes
Saving your work to transfer

Overview of Pathfinder Office

Transferring data from the Trimble unit
Post processing data
Exporting [...]

More features of Trimble GeoXH 2008

The GeoXH 2008 is one of most feature packed professional GPS units available today. We showed yesterday that it can provide accuracy down to decimeter level while using the Zephyr antenna kit. Here are some other things that are pretty nifty.
High resolution VGA screen

3.5 inch VGA (480 x 640 pixel) display
For crisp [...]

Trimble Releases new GeoXH 2008 with real-time decimeter accuracy

The new Trimble® GeoXH® 2008 is here! Whether you need to collect high-accuracy GIS data, quickly locate hidden or buried infrastructure, or view existing GIS data in the field, the GeoXH 2008 handheld provides the perfect solution. The GeoXH™ now provides real-time subfoot (30 cm) and decimeter (10 cm/4 inch) accuracy, making it the [...]

Don’t put Home in your GPS

I read recently that thieves are looking for cars with GPS units not so much to steal the GPS device, but to see if your address is listed in the “Home” saved location.  Most GPS devices have a “Home” option where you can store and easily retrieve your home address without having to retype it [...]

TNGIC 2008 GEOcaching Event Winners

The TN Geographic Information Council (TNGIC) Conference was a huge success last week in beautiful downtown Chattanooga, TN. We would like to thank everyone that participated this year and throw out a “special thank you” to everyone involved in organizing the event. I think everyone would agree that this year’s Conference Committees did an outstanding [...]

TNGIC Geocaching Info

Here is the latest Geocaching info for next week’s TNGIC event. You can download the PDF here.
Here’s the scoop:

Date: Tuesday, March 25th
Time: Noon – 3 pm
Location: Chattanooga Convention Center
Teams: should be 4-6 people
Equipment Needed:
- GPS receiver (Bring your own. GEO-Jobe will provide up to 4 Trimble GPS Units)

- Good walking shoes
- Downloaded data/map files [...]

TNGIC Update - its next week?

So where does the time go that it’s almost TNGIC time again? It’s going to be a great event this year with some folks you are familiar with organizing it again - and doing a great job I might add. GEO-Jobe is heading up the Geo-cache event and Cliff is out capturing a [...]

Trimble Announces New Mapping Receiver - Real Time <5″ Accuracy - uses American and Russian Satellites

GPS Pathfinder ProXRT Receiver Sets New Standard for Mapping Accuracies and Convenience
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today introduced a flexible Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver for Geographic Information System (GIS) data collection and mapping—the GPS Pathfinder® ProXRT receiver. The receiver combines a high-performance GPS receiver with Trimble® H-Star™ technology, OmniSTAR correction capability, and optional GLONASS [...]