Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Augmentra, the maker of the award winning outdoor navigation app ViewRanger GPS has partnered with Cumbria Tourism to publish walking & biking routes in the Lake District on their mobile platform. The deal means that residents & visitors to the Lake District with a smartphone will be able to use the ViewRanger mobile app to
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
The document sets out actions that will be taken by a strong network of business organisations who are keen to promote the job opportunities a low carbon Scotland can bring. What people can do in their daily lives to save energy and contribute to Scotland’s climate change targets are also highlighted. Read More
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced its first release of eB Insight, the foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform. First introduced a year ago at the 2010 ARC World Industry Forum, AssetWise provides operations information modeling that increases the return on investment for owner-operators of infrastructure assets.
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Did you know that over 200,000 years ago you could walk from Britain to France? Or that during the 19th Century Russian Czars would shoot pheasants in Midhurst, West Sussex? Or even that the rich and famous are jetting off to France and beyond in the skies above your head? Read More
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The presentation slides of the Workshop on Methods and Techniques of Use, User and Usability Research in Geoinformation Processing and Dissemination, London, April 13 2010 are available online. The presentation slides of the Third Workshop on Usability of Geographic Information, organized by Ordnance Survey and the Commission (on November 10 2010 in Southampton) areavailable online. The most relevant textbook
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Belfast Harbour and the Danish renewable energy company, Dong Energy, have signed a letter of intent to transform a 50-acre area of the harbour into a offshore wind turbine manufacturing complex. The Harbour is looking to fund the construction of a 450m quay at a cost of GBP40m, creating 150 construction jobs and 300 full-time
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Now in their third year, the latest dates for the Best Practice Days run by gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets have been announced. In a change to the previous format that saw them based on the use of gazetteers across the public sector, these events have been split between the use of gazetteers in the emergency services
Monday, February 7th, 2011
In order to offer Danish builders a certified quality process to ensure that their buildings meet the owners’ operational requirements in terms of functionality and energy consultant firm Grontmij | Carl Bro is now certified according to American Standard for Commissioning. Commissioning, which in Danish is often called ‘concerted commissioning’ is a documented process that
Monday, February 7th, 2011
This publication contains a selection of papers that result of the seminar ‘Management of massive point cloud data: wet and dry’ on Thursday 26 November 2009 at Oracle, De Meern, the Netherlands. This seminar was jointly organized by the subcommissions ‘Marine Geodesy’ and ‘Core Spatial Data’ of the Netherlands Geodetic Commission (part of the Royal
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Bulgaria was again granted the right to participate in international carbon trading. This decision was taken at the12th Meeting of the Implementation Committee considering the obligations of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol held in Germany. The reinstatement of this accreditation will make Bulgaria eligible for inclusion in EU trading with quotas and units under
