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Where the streets have no name
Where the Streets Have No Name - a catchy U2 guitar hook or the name of an Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) project, coordinated by Victoria-based FrontierSI? Well for us, it’s the latter, and AGO has chosen to work with Team Orbica to test how computer vision and geospatial…

Team UCLA visit Orbica HQ
We've had a great week at Orbica introducing our UCLA Anderson School of Management Global Access Programme team to all things kiwi. Garage pies, fish & chips, Tim Tams and even Marmite. (Sorry about the Tim Tams Australia, but you keep stealing our stuff, sooo...). Oh, and we got some great work…

Orbica launches technical team in Germany
When 200k Berliners took to the streets at FridaysforFuture last Friday, Orbica was right there. Here's Orbica Europe Director Peter Rose and new German technical team member William Jones at the Brandenburg Gate supporting positive action to protect our Earth. Love your work guys! Will joined…
Orbica sponsors FOSS4G Oceania
We can't wait for FOSS4G Oceania to be held on New Zealand shores in November this year! We're big supporters of the FOSS4G community so we thought, why not make it official? So we did. We're stoked to be official sponsors of FOSS4G SotM Oceania this year, especially since sponsorship helps to make…

Graffiti map - check out what Orbica's done for Smart Cities
We met a cool bunch of people down at Smart Cities in the Christchurch Town Hall today. We certainly had fun showing off graffiti map too - it's a super sweet web map that Orbican Neal Johnston whipped up to show where all the graffiti violations are across Christchurch. You can click on any dot to…

Orbica hits Bucharest for FOSS4G 2019
Three Orbicans - Kurt Janssen, Peter Rose and Antonin Caen - are in Bucharest this week to join hundreds of other location data junkies at the world's premier opensource GIS conference. Antonin is presenting on the great work we've done on NZTA's CAS project (learn more about it here ). FOSS4G is…