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  • URISA Texas

    Bad Elf Sponsors URISA Texas

    Bad Elf announces its 2023 sponsorship of URISA Texas, the state chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association. Bad Elf's participation at the 2023 UTM Level sponsorship represents a commitment to connect with professionals and educate and grow Texas's GIS community.
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  • Affordable High-Accuracy GPS for Education

    Obtaining high quality geographic information systems (GIS) data depends on effective field data collection. Poor field collection wastes labor resources and ultimately undermines the value of your GIS database.

    GPS receiver capabilities range from survey grade (centimeter level accuracy) to consumer grade (~5-meter level accuracy). Of course, this demands a cost-benefit tradeoff ranging from free to prohibitively expensive for most educational institutions. Between these two extremes lies mapping grade GPS, which delivers 1 meter accuracy.
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