by Benjamin Houston | Dec 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
This year’s annual New York State Veteran Owned Business Conference on Nov 28-29 in Albany (VETCON2023) was a great opportunity for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses (SDVOBs) to not only network with one another, but also connect with New York State... 
by Benjamin Houston | Oct 15, 2023 | Drones
Have you ever seen ghosts in your orthoimagery? Have you looked? Maybe you should… How about goblins crawling up out of your surface model, or gremlins messing up your point cloud? The drone industry is filled with case studies of perfect projects and examples... 
by Benjamin Houston | Sep 2, 2021 | Business Development
With the economy creeping to a halt and everyone shifting to work-at-home and online engagement, there are a lot of unknowns in front of all of us for 2020. We want to reassure you that GroundPoint Engineering has been operating fully and succeeding in this “virtual... 
by Benjamin Houston | Jul 1, 2021 | GIS
The first part of this article was mostly me whining about the problems associated with mapping change. This part focuses on solutions. One of the fundamental principles introduced earlier was the idea that we need to account for “allowable error” in the data. We... 
by Benjamin Houston | Jun 21, 2021 | GIS
What’s the Problem? In the geospatial profession, we really have great data. And we have LOTS of great data. And a bunch of that data has been around for a pretty long time. Which means as more and more new data arrives on the scene, buried in there somewhere is the...