Saturday, February 12th, 2011
After a year devoted to biodiversity, the United Nations has turned its attention to forests. In Switzerland, trees cover more than 30 per cent of the country. Olivier Schneider, forestry engineer and expert in forest policy and conservation at the Federal Environment Office, says the year will help raise awareness of the problems facing the
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
The normalization extension is now available for gvSIG 1.10. This version is the previous one, but it has been updated to work on gvSIG 1.10, and allows to separate chains of text in different parts and storing them in table fields. These chains of text can have their origin in plain text files or in
Saturday, February 12th, 2011
The 6th edition of the State of Play reports covers the period 2009 – 2010. This study has been conducted by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, together with a group of International Experts. It also takes into account the first result of the Member States monitoring activities submitted to the EC in 2010 in compliance with
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Bing Spatial Data Services, a next generation spatial search offering added to the Bing API. This new service offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to Microsoft’s servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License. The blog here provides further information. In addition,
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Luxion, the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced the release of KeyShot 2.2 as a free upgrade to the groundbreaking KeyShot 2 application introduced last summer.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
OnAsset Intelligence Inc.wireless asset tracking, sensing, and control solutions, today announced that its SENTRY wireless tracking solution received TMC’s Best-of-Show award at last week’s ITEXPO in Miami.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
These maps show the rate at which the ice sheet over the British Isles during the last Ice Age melted. The ka on the images is short for thousand years and BP is ‘before present.’ So 27 Ka BP is the map of the ice sheet at 27,000 years ago. Read More
Friday, February 11th, 2011
A specially designed bore machine will be needed to dig the 19-metre diameter Orlovsky Tunnel in St Petersburg, Russia. COWI has been selected as Engineer to examine the tunnel project’s documents and conduct an independent design assessment before construction begins in late 2011. Read More
Friday, February 11th, 2011
The Environment Agency today unveiled plans for tailored flood warning services to be developed to better prepare utility providers, emergency services, insurers, retail and transport companies for flooding. From today, organisations can obtain licences to use live Environment Agency flood warning data to develop specialised flood warning products and services. The Environment Agency hopes that these
Friday, February 11th, 2011
MapQuest, Inc. launched a pedestrian routing mode on MapQuest.com making walking directions more direct than ever. Additionally, a new rail transit option links the pedestrian mode with public rail transportation routing in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Boston, reaching roughly 90 percent of the nation’s rail ridership.
