Esri tech to help power UN’s new global data hub
December 11, 2017
Esri and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are working with a number of member states to utilize […]
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Esri and the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) are working with a number of member states to utilize […]
The U.S. Census Bureau released a new online service that makes key demographic, socio-economic and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. The Census Bureau’s first-ever public Application Programming Interface (API) allows developers to design Web and mobile apps to explore or learn more about America’s changing population and economy.
This update to a seminal article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy measures. As the driving forces of positioning and navigation change from survey and precision guidance to location-based services, E911, and so on, some accuracy measures have fallen out of common usage, while others have blossomed. The analysis changes further when the constellation expands to ombinations of GPS, SBAS, Galileo, and GLONASS. Software scripts, provided online, help bridge the gap between theory and reality.
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. So reportedly said Benjamin Disraeli, prime minister of Great Britain from 1874 to 1880.
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