Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Together, Starpath School of Navigation and Quark Expeditions will provide amateur and advanced sailors alike a unique opportunity to transit the Holy Grail of Arctic exploration while earning certification in several areas of navigation. Starpath has trained passionate sailors in all phases of marine navigation and weather since 1978. Quark, a polar expedition specialist founded
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Audi AG and INRIX announced Audi has selected INRIX’s XD™ Traffic to help further the company’s Audi Connect strategy with real-time traffic information for its navigation systems starting with the mid-2011 model year. At a launch event today for the 2011 Audi A6, the automaker demonstrated how Audi vehicles connected to the Internet via Audi
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Officials said the elevated expressway would link Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in the north of the capital to Kutubkhali point in the southeast to connect a highway leading to the southeastern port city of Chittagong. Read More
Monday, January 24th, 2011
The European Commission presented its midterm review on the development of Europe’s satellite navigation programs Galileo and EGNOS. Recent progress in the development of Galileo, including the signature of four major contracts and the testing of the first four operational satellites, means the satellite navigation system will deliver initial services in 2014. It is expected
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Getmapping’s aerial photographic survey of Scotland is being compiled into a comprehensive set of terrain scenery by Horizon Simulation for the popular Microsoft Flight Simulator, ‘Generation X’ edition. The first volume which complements scenery of the whole of England and Wales was the Western Isles. It has been closely followed by the Shetland and Orkney
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Avia Motor and Avia Sail are affordable and versatile Windows® software products that bring sophisticated instrumentation to the everyday power boater or sailor. Avia software receives data from onboard sensors via the industry standard NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000® protocols, and presents the data as crystal-clear analog and digital instruments on your Windows® PC, netbook or
Monday, January 24th, 2011
UK Government cuts mean some planned flood and coastal defences will not go ahead. But no one wants to tell me which ones. Can you help plug the information gap? Once more unto the breach, dear friends, that is the government’s cuts to flood and coastal defence spending. I need your help to reveal the impact
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Hamidou Jallow, principal lands surveyor at the Department of Lands and Survey has been summoned by the Lands Commission to clear doubts about the state of files containing list of leased lands and their detailed contacts from the year 2005 to date. Read More
Monday, January 24th, 2011
The goal of the “InnovationCity Ruhr” project isn’t to create a model green city from scratch. Its agenda is perhaps even more ambitious: It aims to take an existing city – with all of its industrial facilities, green spaces, swathes of fallow land and neighborhoods both old and new – and reshape it along more sustainable lines.
Friday, January 21st, 2011
A programme organised by HCM City’s Environmental Protection Agency saw around 1.25 million people joining various community-based environmental protection activities and several hundred thousands more increasing their environmental awareness in the last five years. “Environmental protection has become a duty of everybody,” Nguyen Van Hong, deputy director of the city Department of Natural Resources and
