Monday, September 27th, 2010
The INSPIRE Directive lays down general rules for the establishment of an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe based on infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the Member States. In particular Annex III includes the aspects about Area management/restriction/regulation zones and mineral resources themes. The Mining Cadastre in Spain has been developed based on the
Monday, September 27th, 2010
MOSCOW TIMES – Russian Satellite Communications Company is planning to put two new satellites into orbit, which would enable the development of the at-home market for high-definition and 3-D television in Russia. RSCC signed contracts for making Ekspress-AT1 and AT2 broadcast satellites, as well as Ekspress AM8 satellite networks, with Thales Alenia Space and Reshetnev Information Satellite
Monday, September 27th, 2010
A few days ago the ‚Service Portal for Metadata‘ of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Berlin/Brandenburg (GDI-BE/BB) has been launched successfully: the Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Brandenburg (LGB) and the geoinformation service provider DELPHI IMM GmbH from Potsdam announce the official end of the testing phase. The Service Portal for Metadata represents a reliable and freely available
Monday, September 27th, 2010
To exemplify our offer to the market will Chaos systems change the name to Adtollo. We make the name change to put focus at our two business areas: consulting services and systems. The name change does only concern the company name, our software system names Topocad and Chaos desktop remain the same. Stefan Andersson, general manager, says:
Monday, September 27th, 2010
The Czech version is the sixteenth of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule, and follows the release of the International, German, Austrian, New Zealand, US, Italian, Australian, French, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Russian versions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010.
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
RUSSIA NEWS – The flood protection dam Schifffahrtstor the front of the city was successfully tested. “Flood, there will be no longer in Petersburg,” said Vice Governor Mikhail Odejewski. The “dam” is ready. Read More
Sunday, September 26th, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Most people would be delighted to discover that they were sitting on top of natural gas reserves that could potentially supply their needs for the next century or so. No more worrying about complicated Middle East politics or whether oil supplies are past their peak. Yet in the Canadian province of Quebec, news
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) Metadata Profile (version 1.1) is now the recommended e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) geospatial metadata standard for use by New Zealand government agencies. The Profile was endorsed by the State Services Commission in July 2010, following a consultation period which showed support for the Profile from the geospatial community. One of the
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
At the recent Open Source Asia/Pacific conference, I presented on the tricky subject of “How to sell Open Source Software to Government”, which can equally be read as “What logic can I use to convince my boss that using Open Source is a good idea?” This is particularly pertinent to New Zealand’s geospatial community who have
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Alongside software and consulting services, Exprodat Consulting offers some of the most popular GIS-based training courses to the Oil & Gas industry. To prove their point, the company has just completed a course that included their 500th attendee. Such is the popularity and value of their courses, the company expects to pass the 600 mark
