Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ABC.AZ – The State Committee for Land &and Cartography of Azerbaijan has conducted work on the opening of a new riverbed of the Arax River. Committee’s head Garib Mammadov says that in this connection it was carried out work on inventory of lands with total area of 11,800 hectares. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
AAG – Stanford University humanities professors Dan Edlestein and Paula Findlen are currently working with academic technology specialist Nicole Coleman and other colleagues to map the flow of tens of thousands letters across Europe sent by key Enlightenment thinkers during the eighteenth century. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ESDIN was well represented at the GSDI 12 conference in Singapore in October. Laila Aslesen (WP 5) shared her thoughts at the end of her team’s work on licensing models for a European Spatial Data Infrastructure. The presentations below take you from the background through the approach to the conclusions of this work. They then go on to
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
BALTIC TIMES – The company Aerodium, maker of the vertical wind tunnel, has acquired 20 new potential customers in China through its participation in the Shanghai World Expo 2010, reports Nozare.lv. Specific details still have to be agreed on within the next few months, says company Chairman Ivars Beitans. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
IRISH TIMES – ‘Mapping” has become one of the great metaphors of this age. Running parallel to this trend has been a renewed interest in the history of mapping. Rachel Hewitt’s Map of a Nation is a valuable addition to this genre. Her Biography of the Ordnance Survey , is a lively, well-written and carefully researched evocation of
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
GLOBAL VOICES – “Help Map” is a project to crowdsource and map unprecedented wildfires outside of Moscow in summer 2010. The project quickly became an important base for volunteers to provide resources and lend a hand during weeks of crisis. Global Voices articles covering the “Help Map” can be found in Global Voices ‘ Russian Wildfires 2010
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
EFI’s Winter and Summer School 2011: Making values work – exploring multiple perspectives in understanding the valuation of forest ecosystems will be organized in late March 2011 in Freiburg, Germany and in late September 2011 in Croatia.
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) is scheduled for July 5-8, 2011, at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Audience. GI_Forum focuses on an international audience that shares an interest in GIScience and Technology. This Call for Papers aims at researchers who design, develop and apply advanced methods and techniques of Geoinformatics to a broad range of application
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Envista Corporation announced it has secured $4.1M from seven investors toward a $7.6 million equity-based funding round. The company’s initial investors included New England-based Borealis Ventures (Hanover, NH), Egan-Managed Capital (Boston, MA), and Point Judith Capital (Providence, RI). Envista will leverage the capital to fund business expansion and product development to meet global demands to
