Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Massimo De Martini’s face assumes a look of concentrated pleasure as he slips the delicate sheet of paper, 16in by 27in, from its protective plastic sleeve. He spreads the page carefully across a leather bureau top. It’s a map of the world, printed in Florence in 1482. It smells musty, with a citrus top note, and
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The recent news that the US federal government is looking to purchase cloud-based services with an estimated value of US$2.5 billion should be enough evidence to change the mind of anyone who still thinks that the cloud will float by. Moving data, software and services to the cloud is happening and the pace of this
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Danish civil aviation authorities have closed a sector of Danish airspace off the northwest Jutland coast due to ash in the air from Icelandic volcano Grímsvötn. The ban came into effect at 6am and will be in remain in place until at least 12pm. However with winds continuing to blow in from the west, meteorologists forecast
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is once again awarding a special topic prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. This year, DLR would like to see “Augmented Navigation – Everywhere”. Hence, it is looking for ideas that use the satellite navigation augmentation system EGNOS or multi-sensor systems to improve positioning. The entrant with the best
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Around our facilities in the Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan, we’ve been using samples collected from marine habitats to help us assess potential conservation risks. Before we begin new offshore extraction activities in the Caspian, we first conduct a survey of the seafloor, collecting samples which can be analysed in our labs.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The Goodrich SmartDisplay Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) serves as the cornerstone for the company’s advanced cockpit data management systems. The systems provide turn-key EFB paperless solutions with fully integrated hardware, software and support services. This allows flight crews, maintenance and flight operations groups to perform critical ground and in-flight management operations. Additionally, the SmartDisplay EFB
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data, analytics and communication software and services, today announced the launch of Flood Risk Pro, a new Risk Data Suite™ bundle. This new product will enable National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Excess Flood coverage insurers to build up-to-date flood risk information into their underwriting processes.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Today, Esri announces its first release of Census 2010 data. This release includes not only Census 2010 Redistricting data, but also updated 2010 geographic boundaries. Census 2010 data is available immediately from Esri in reports, dynamic color-coded maps, Smart Map Search, and in geographies that are not available from the Census Bureau.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Google Maps is ideal for vehicular navigation, but less so for exploring the great outdoors on foot. It’s justly popular as a Geographical Information System (GIS) with which you can publish maps with places of interest superimposed as pushpins, but the setup isn’t as flexible as it might be.f you want to display multiple points
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
It’s interesting the prototype of spatial data infrastructure for Guatemala that is preparing the General Secretary of planning and programming of the SEGEPLAN’s Presidency. We had seen in the video presentation of Moses Poyatos and Walter Giron from SITIMI in the 4th gvSIG’s days; at the end of the presentation mentioned that the IDEs was
