Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR – Ambassador Richard N. Swett, FAIA a Vice President and the Managing Principal of the Washington, DC office of Leo A. Daly, will be one of the featured keynote speakers at the Ecobuild® Fall and AEC-ST® Fall Conference and Exhibition, returning to Washington, D.C. December 8 – 11, 2008.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR―Aqua America, Inc., a publicly traded water and wastewater company headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, has selected ArcGIS Server as the basis of its enterprise-wide geographic information system (GIS). The enterprise system built on ArcGIS Server gives Aqua America and its subsidiaries expanded access to information while eliminating stand-alone information systems, reducing redundant software and streamlining
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
URISA is now accepting abstract submissions for its Second GIS in Public Health Conference. The conference, themed “Putting Health in Place with GIS,” will take place June 5-8, 2009 in Providence, Rhode Island. The vision for the conference is to provide an open and participatory forum for advancing the effective use of spatial information and
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR — The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML defines a data encoding in XML for geographic data and a grammar to express models of such data using
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR — The 2008 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) will feature renowned botanist, environmentalist, biodiversity expert, and president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, Dr. Peter H. Raven. Raven will discuss the significance of biodiversity and the environment for sustaining our world.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR – The Pitt Review published today reports that integrating geographic information and sharing data from the numerous organisations that have a role to play in flooding is critical.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
PR – Avineon, Inc., a successful provider of IT, geospatial, engineering and program management services, today announced three major promotions within its Geospatial Division. Al Williamson has been named Director of Operations – Utilities, David Ridderikhoff has been appointed Director of Business Development – Geospatial Solutions, and Tom Finkhousen has been promoted to Project Manager.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
FIG Paper – This paper has been prepared for presentation at the FIG Working Week in Stockholm, Sweden 14-19 June 2008.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
PR – A joint venture between three of Britain’s biggest developers, which accounts for one third of all homes developed in Britain, has selected Autodesk Buzzsaw to act as an information sharing platform. The Ironstone Developer Group (IDG) consortium of Barratt Homes, George Wimpey and Persimmon is developing England’s largest sustainable urban extension, Lawley Village,
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
PR – A visionary government program to provide clean drinking water throughout Pakistan will use GE ultrafiltration systems at over a thousand distribution sites. This initiative is expected to improve the lives of over one million people by providing them access to treated water that meets World Health Organization (WHO) standards.
