Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – The Plastiki, made from 12,500 plastic bottles, reached Sydney on Monday after just over four months at sea. Its journey began in San Francisco on March 20, carrying a six-member crew. The purpose of the voyage was to raise environmental awareness, and the 18-meter-long boat’s design reflected its goal. The ship’s
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
DEFRA – In the further context of an ongoing review of Defra’s network of public bodies, Spelman explained how and why the Government is changing its approach to driving sustainable development across Government departments and beyond. Defra, with the Department for Energy and Climate Change, will take on full responsibility for sustainability, with Defra’s core
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
GOV CANADA – Today, at the official dedication of the Caribou Wind Park, Tilly O’Neill-Gordon, Member of Parliament for Miramichi, announced an investment of up to $28.6 million over ten years in the Atlantic Canadian success story through the ecoENERGY for Renewable Power program. “The Government of Canada’s support for the Caribou Wind Park is
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Getmapping’s ‘WMS’ (Web Mapping Service) service is being used by Vtesse Networks to plan its optical fibre networking solutions. Getmapping aerial photography is streamed via a WMS feed over the Internet directly into Vtesse’s planning and asset management tool. Increasingly popular, WMS provides an efficient and cost effective way for organisations to access large
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. has entered into a three-year World Bank-funded contract to encourage private sector growth by improving the country’s land administration systems. The Private Sector Competitiveness Project (PSCPII) aims to assist the Government of Uganda in eradicating the primary constraints preventing the international competitiveness of Uganda’s private sector. Fundamental to achieving this
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Critigen, a global technology consultancy, announced it has aligned with the leaders in the geospatial industry, becoming a Platinum Tier Partner with Esri and creating an expanded business partner agreement with Trimble, including support of Trimble Utility Field Solutions and initiatives in the utility industry. “Product interoperability and service delivery are going to be critical
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The next meeting of the Symphony User Group, which is a biannual meeting held by users of Aligned Assets’ Symphony products, is scheduled to be held at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton on 23rd September 2010. This meeting, in addition to best practice, case studies and new product demonstrations will see the users taking
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thousands of hectares of fragile mountainous forest in north-eastern Tanzania have been preserved through a recently completed seven-year biodiversity project managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Eastern Arc Mountains project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was concluded last month after an independent evaluation reported that at least 10,000 hectares of
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Paperless Trail Inc., a leading Philippines based digital mapping & GIS applications developer, recently unveiled Business Mapper a tool that helps businesses visualize location of their customers, saturation, supply chain and other location sensitive operations or activities. Read More
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thematic Cartography and Geographic Information Systems team is one of the users of the recently inaugurated Lucio Lascaray building at the new research centre on the Araba campus of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). It draws up all kinds of maps, from geological ones to those of vegetation and even archaeological maps, the
