Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Land mafias are once again out to sell plots of land without original title deeds to citizens for amounts as little as SR10,000. The reappearance of land thieves has been reported at a time when the concerned authorities are struggling to tackle encroachments. They are currently concentrated outside the residential areas of Makkah and Jeddah, precisely
Monday, July 25th, 2011
The products of administrative regions 1: 250 000 (VG250) and administrative regions 1: 1 000 000 (VG1000) are content with the date 01.01.2011 in the revised sale. Test data and product documentation you can free our GeoDatenZentrum down load. Please note some changes in the attributes. Detailed explanations can be found in the documentation to VG250 and VG1000 under the “Current Information”. The employees of
Monday, July 25th, 2011
In this configuration, the model can be used to perform simulations of “dispersion”. Are injected artificially in a model grid an arbitrary amount of tracer, and calculate the transport and dispersion of this tracer by the winds, turbulence, convection. These simulations look at how the air mass was over Japan at the initial moment, moves and dissolves
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Do you have terrestrial, mobile or aerial LiDAR data available for your transportation project? Whether or not you are collecting yourself or outsourcing, you need the ability to quickly process this large data and extract exactly what you need, when you need it.
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Bath & North East Somerset Council has adopted the Getmapping Integrated Solution (GMIS). The solution helps Authorities to save money, extend and improve the use of GIS and mapping across the organisation whilst enhancing data sharing and collaboration. The package also includes an aerial photography update programme on a three year cycle. The Getmapping Integrated Solution
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Esri UK announced that it is working with the Geographical Association (GA) to help stimulate a nationwide debate about the core geography knowledge that children should be taught at school. “Geography skills are becoming increasingly important for employers, yet many young people have a very limited understanding of the world in which they live,” says Richard
Monday, July 25th, 2011
Peru and Germany have signed a financial cooperation agreement thereby the European country agrees to give Peru 5 million euros to finance a biodiversity protection project. The agreement was signed by Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde and German Ambassador to Peru, Christoph Müller. The signing of this document shows the willingness of Germany
Monday, July 25th, 2011
China’s leading e-commerce company Alibaba said Friday it will launch a mobile operating system, joining industry giants Google and Apple in providing software for smartphones. The group will also unveil its first smartphone at the launch, to be held next week in Beijing, Alibaba spokeswoman Florence Shih told AFP by telephone from Hong Kong. Read More
Monday, July 25th, 2011
With confusion over number of households in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is contemplating to use geographic information system (GIS) to map all assessed properties in Greater Hyderabad. On a pilot basis, one block will be selected for GIS mapping and later it would be extended to the entire city to bring all
Monday, July 25th, 2011
The universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam are planning to merge, theNRC reports on Friday, quoting university sources. The paper says the universities were planning to make the announcement at the opening of the new academic year in September. The merged organisation, which will be known as Leiden University, will have 55,000 students and 11,500 staff, excluding people
