Friday, May 20th, 2011
KADME has developed an interactive map for the Norwegian Oil Museum. The map will be officially unveiled at the European Oil & Gas archives and European Oil Museums conference on 26 May in Stavanger. The Norwegian Oil Museum provides information about technological advances and the way petroleum influences Norwegian society. In order to inform visitors
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
“Being the southernmost fjord in North America, Howe Sound has verdant green mountains with snow-capped peaks rising out of deep blue glacial waters. This is represented in the colour scheme. The design itself honours maritime history, particularly old cartography which knew little of these mysterious waters perched on the edge of the earth and therefore
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Route Planner includes about 15,000 km cycling in an online tour planner. The Google-like map navigation is now available to cyclists the full potential of modern web mapping technology available. “Our development team has done it in a few weeks, a map application to develop, mainly in terms of usability sets new standards. “Ole Seidel, CEO of Geoinformatics alta4
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The Siemens Velaro high-speed train is in revenue service worldwide: It runs through Spanish deserts, travels under the hot sun in China and withstands the Russian winter. The latest generation of the supertrain, the Velaro D, will enter revenue service as the new Class 407 ICE 3 for Deutsche Bahn from the end of 2011.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Russian bloggers are becoming increasingly influential in ecological and environmental issues, participants at a Moscow forum said. “Right now, bloggers probably have more impact on the local authorities,” Yevgeny Arsyukhin, a columnist with the Izvestia newspaper, said at the EcoBlogy forum. “It all depends on the official,” blogger Oleg Kozyrev said. “Some officials want to listen to people,
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Dubai is poised to set up a new committee to regulate urban and regional planning in a bid to match construction projects to future demand, it has been announced. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, ratified the principles of establishing a supreme committee for planning at a meeting
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
It gave me – and many others – a momentous insight: The Earth is humanity’s home in space. Or with the words of the Stockholm conference in 1972: Only one Earth. We learned that the sphere of life, our Earth’s biosphere, is thin, fragile fabric that can easily be disturbed. Here the entire history of humanity
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
We have the pleasure to invite you to the First French-speaking gvSIG users Conference, that will be held in Rennes (France) the 1st July 2011 . With more than 6 years of experience the gvSIG Project has taken an important area at the geomatic world. At the Univerity of Rennes 2, this project has been adopted
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
To coincide with ”European Maritime Day” on the 20th May 2011, SeaZone is launching a range of new services. Many of our customers request not only data, but advice on how the data can be best used to support their operations and business processes. SeaZone has acquired considerable experience and expertise in this area and consequently, we
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Since November 2010, Blom UK have owned and operated the Optech ALTM 3033 LiDAR previously owned by Cambridge University’s Unit for Landscape Modelling. The instrument previously flown by the Unit was purchased by Blom UK as the university no longer wished to capture its own LiDAR data. Specifically optimised with full waveform digitisation for data
