Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
In Part 2 – Manual Reset, SmartGeometry 2010, Barcelona, Working Prototypes, architect Don Chong provides additional coverage of the event. He discusses industrial design, the details of sandstone and begins to lay out the concept of ‘Manual Reset’.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. announced that Athie | Wohnrath has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for the use of a Building Information Modeling (BIM) process on more than 200 projects to date, including interior design, building design, retrofit and new construction. The award further recognizes the firm’s commitment to BIM through its employee training, implementation strategy and the
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) is hosting this geospatial metadata workshop at the University of Cardiff. EDINA, a JISC based data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online Go-Geo! resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Sparx Systems today announced that it will provide support to the Joint Research Centre(JRC) by making licenses of Enterprise Architect, the award winning UML modeling tool, available to the Spatial Data Infrastructure(SDI) unit. The mission of the JRC is to provide scientific and technical support for the development, and monitoring of EU policies. The SDI Unit
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
A new RapidBus service connecting downtown Kelowna with the University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO), and enhancing service to the Rutland area, was unveiled today. These new services will begin operations on Sunday, Sept. 5, helping to bring transit users, including students, to their destinations easier and faster than ever before, and helping to build a
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
At the time, you could only use a limited number of pre-packaged datasets. Bjorn has just announced the Thematic Mapping Engine API, a Javascript library that lets you do thematic mapping in the Google Earth plugin with your own data (including online sources like Google Docs Spreadsheet). Still in beta, and Bjorn is looking for
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Join the authors of Planning for Climate Change and Governing for Sustainable Urban Development for an event that analyses the link between place-making governance and climate change. Jenny Crawford and Yvonne Rydin will examine the development strategies that are available to spatial planners and policy makers before looking at the way in which governance can intervene in the
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Landis+Gyr today announced the signing of a software reseller agreement with Grid Net™, a leading global real-time, all-IP Smart Grid and Smart Home software platforms provider. Under this agreement, Landis+Gyr will offer Grid Net’s PolicyNet SmartGrid NMS™ and SmartNOS™ software platforms, and PolicyNet SmartAgents™ as key software components of its open standards based, highly secure, Smart
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (Herndon, VA) and Highline Electric Association (Holyoke, CO) today announced that Highline Electric would use GeoNav Group’s nVIEW 360° service to map its electric distribution system. nVIEW 360° allows utilities to map their systems using a truck-mounted, photo- and light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based interface, which allows for a complete,
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
ROCHESTER BUSINESS JOUR – ITT Corp.’s Geospatial Systems division in Rochester has received a contract from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, a major operating unit of Lockheed Martin Corp., to continue building the imaging system for the next-generation Earth-imaging satellite, GeoEye-2. The imaging system consists of the camera and sensor subsystem, optical telescope unit and outer barrel
