Thursday, November 18th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – Finland’s state municipal subsidy system shares the wealth of municipal tax revenue, and the biggest payers are found in the Helsinki region. About three percentage points of municipal tax rate paid by residents of Helsinki and Espoo are paid to other parts of the country. In Helsinki the figure next year will be EUR
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Geographics Forum Salzburg (GI_Forum) will take place on July 5- 8, 2011 at the University of Salzburg. GI_Forum 2011 solicits contributions in GIScience and Technology, and especially welcomes submissions on topics related to Learning with Geoinformation, Climate Change and Spatial Vulnerability Assessment, and Monitoring and Modeling of Global and Climate Change. Read More
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
MecSoft Europe GmbH, distributor of CAD/CAM software in Europe, announced a new distribution partnership with Tri-D Technologies. Tri-D Technologies, located in Ontario, Canada, is the manufacturer of the software solution TerraFlat for Rhino 3D. TerraFlat allows the user to effortlessly create 2D patterns from very complex 3D shapes. MecSoft Europe the distributor of CAD/CAM solutions such
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
CSDi is announcing the September launch of a module of four online field courses on Adaptation to Climate Change. These courses begin by introducing basic climate change concepts, and develop as participants identify local community vulnerabilities, investigate appropriate solutions, develop full projects, launch and manage them.
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Cisco today announced that EnergyAustralia, the largest energy network in Australia with 3 million customers, has selected Cisco Connected Grid solutions as the infrastructure platform for the delivery of a range of business-critical services in its major substations across its electricity network.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Isilon today announced that Aerial Services, Inc.(ASI) has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its aerial mapping and geospatial services workflow. Using the Isilon X-Series, ASI has unified its image processing and analysis onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to accelerate project delivery, while reducing operating costs. With Isilon, ASI has been
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
“It looks unlikely that leaders at the climate negotiations at Cancún will get it together to face reality and prevent catastrophe,” says Alan AtKisson, sustainability consultant to governments and business, and author of the bestselling book Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist’s World, a new edition of which is published this month
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
EUROGEOGRAPHICS – The INSPIRE monitoring and reporting results are now accessible through the INSPIRE website. For every country the overview table provides a link to the country’s INSPIRE Monitoring and Reporting webpage (where avaialable) and a link to the country’s monitoring and reporting documents. Read More
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
DEFRA – A consultation on new guidelines for considering large-scale waste water infrastructure projects has been launched by the Government today. The Waste Water National Policy Statement (NPS), announced by Defra, will be used by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) when deciding whether such applications should get the go-ahead. Read More
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
The Fire Insight product suite is an innovative and powerful range of probabilistic computer models giving a highly detailed perspective into the distribution of Commercial Property risks across the UK. The models are based on extensive research using the latest available information, powerful computing and the most sophisticated analytics to identify areas most likely to experience
