Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones – a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GPS enhanced Google Maps for all HTML5 enabled mobile web browsers to provide locating, searching and routing services supported with detail street maps,
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
MaxSea’s Time Zero software offers a new ultra fast cartographic engine with unparalleled seamlessness and speed of zooming. Nautical charts, 3D data, and aerial photos are combined to provide you with the best maritime information and a realism that has never before been achieved. Read More
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
TU DELTA – Last week Dr Akke Suiker was chosen as TU Delft’s ‘Best Teacher of 2010’. His secret of success: stripping the subject down to its bare essentials. Read More
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Over the last two decades many countries throughout the world have taken steps to establish national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDls). These actions have sought to provide an infrastructure for accessing and sharing spatial data to reduce the duplication of spatial data collection by both users and producers, and enable better utilization of spatial data and
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
On Thursday (December 16) at 15:30, the environment minister and a doctorate in environmental planning, Izabella Teixeira, will participate in a live debate, which will make a retrospective of his performance in the current government and a balance sheet of the 16th Conference United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP-16), promoted recently in Cancun. Read
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
The IBGE launches a collection of thematic maps addressing Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Soils of the Amazon. With scale representation of the state official (1:1.800.000, that every inch equals the 18 kms) and updated satellite images, fieldwork and data from previous studies, the material was prepared as part of the commitment of IBGE produce information about
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
This is a first version of provisionally (pending the publication of the first final version of NGBE v1.0), which have extracted all the place names of Numerical Cartographic Base 1:25.000 (BCN25) and have briefly subjected to purification consisting of partial removal of repeated place names and the total elimination of place names for foreign countries.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
IGN SPAIN – Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess of Asturias preside over the opening ceremony with Minister of Public Works, José Blanco, and the presidents of the autonomous communities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha, Esperanza Aguirre and José María Barreda. Read More
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Swedish greenhouse gas emissions are declining substantially. In 2009, emissions fell by over 3.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents, the largest reduction in any single year to date* . This means that Sweden s total emissions have now dropped by a total of around 17 per cent since 1990, and levels have never been
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
As a direct result of a Crown Estate–Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum, Hannah Evans of the British Geological Survey has produced this report on historic changes in the Great Yarmouth spit and the related coastal system.