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Auckland Council Keeps on Winning

  GBS has been involved with the Auckland Council’s GFMO (Geospatial Future Mode of Operation) project for some time now – and especially with regards to the replacement of their internal and external viewers. The internal viewer has now gone live and we are getting some good feedback from Council staff.  That the GFMO project has […]

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PLACE 2015

GBS attended the recent national Maori GIS hui in Pahia.  Pahia is such a beautiful place so it was a pleasure to be there enjoying the surrounds with a great group of GIS professionals and enthusiasts.  I say enthusiasts because in some instances, the delegates are new to GIS and have such energy to get […]

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2 Fat Thumbs lists on the Esri Marketplace

    GBS is the first New Zealand Esri partner to list an application on the Esri Marketplace.  On Friday 19th December, we listed 2 Fat Thumbs.   2 Fat Thumbs is built for Windows 7 and 8 using the Esri Runtime .NET SDK. It is designed for in field data viewing, data editing and data collection […]

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NZEUC / Esri User Conference

Tony Elson, along with a couple of our clients attended the UC in San Diego.  We had a great time looking at the user presentations, the technology presentations and plenaries, and meeting new people.  The scale of this event is just mind boggling.  But it is a great opportunity to get some knowledge updates and […]

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New release from Motion – R12

Motion Computing announces the latest offering in their mobile technology portfolio:  The Motion R12 Rugged Platform! What is the R12 Platform? The R12 includes a sleek and lightweight FHD 12.5" tablet along with a wide array of thoughtfully designed accessories including a wireless keyboard, the SlateMate data acquisition module and an in-vehicle dock.  All products in [...]
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Community Support

Community Support GBS are proud to support community and charitable organisations.  Since 2009 GBS has been supporting the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust cause.  This is a great organisation who do a lot of hard work in the greater Auckland region transporting the injured and ill.  We are proud to support this vital organisation. GBS also supports community sports […]

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Esri Partner Conference and Developer Summit 2014

In March, Tony, Harley and Shane travelled to Palm Springs CA, for the Esri Partner Conference and Developer Summit.  As usual, Esri put on an excellent event and it was great to get an update on what is going on in terms of the Esri strategy and technology .  Apart from a couple of major introductions (JavaScript […]

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New release – StatsMap online web mapping

StatsMap Statistics New Zealand has just released their online web mapping application StatsMap. GBS are proud to be associated with this project and the development of the Web and Web Mobile sites. You can view StatsMap here >>

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Staff Spotlight: David Aalbers

David has been with us coming up to two years now.  He’s a quiet achiever who gets the job done – usually with the minimum of fuss.  David is also our resident Flex specialist, although I’m sure he would rather be not spending so much time in  Flex as he would in other environments.  Given […]

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Around the World in …..20 Days

Nga Whenua Rahui Well, not quite around the world.  In fact not even half.  But yes, we spent some time in the wilderness here in NZ – i.e. a communications wilderness otherwise known as Te Kaha on the East Cape.  Te Kaha is a beautiful spot and while being incommunicado had its challenges, we enjoyed […]

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