Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Far North First Nation communities will have the opportunity to apply for funding assistance to acquire skills and training related to community based land use planning. The Northern Training Partnership Fund will help Far North First Nations build land use planning capacity within their communities and be better prepared to benefit from future resource-related
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
CompassData, Inc. is excited to announce that a reseller agreement has been signed with Mississippi based Spatial Information Solutions. Under this new agreement, Spatial Information Solutions and their Accuracy Analyst™ customers will have full access to the CDI archive of over 14,000 Ground Control Points. Accuracy Analyst™ version 2.0 provides software-based map accuracy and content enhancement solutions. CompassData
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today released the V8i (SELECTseries 3) version of Bentley Substation, the first intra-operable software for intelligent electrical and physical substation design. Bentley Substation empowers project teams to design substations 30 percent faster than they typically can
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Version 12 includes the familiar ribbon-style interface pioneered by Microsoft in Office 2007. This improves greatly on the appearance of the software – making it more intuitive to learn and use. Geomagic Studio and Qualify 12 are now released. They will ship with both 32- and 64- bit editions on the CD and support English,
Monday, July 26th, 2010
THE NATIONAL – Canadian and U.S. government experts met quietly in Ottawa last week to begin trying to resolve a long-standing boundary dispute in the Beaufort Sea, a Canadian diplomat revealed Monday. News of the surprise talks was disclosed during a briefing by Canadian and U.S. officials on a bi-national seabed mapping mission to be
Monday, July 26th, 2010
BERNAMA – The government is working on a definite policy and legal framework to improve geospatial data management in the country, says Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Datuk Seri Douglas Unggah Embas.He said the policy and legal framework are important to determine the basic principals and responsibilities of federal, state and local authorities.”It is
Monday, July 26th, 2010
The HUMBOLDT Open Day will take place on 28th September 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Português (IGP). The programme is organised by the consortium of the HUMBOLDT project in cooperation with the VESTA-GIS project. The four-year EU project HUMBOLDT contributes to the implementation of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) that
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop from Esri Press is a fundamental geographic information system (GIS) workbook that introduces the underlying principles of GIS within the context of a structured ArcGIS lesson plan. Originally published in 2001, this best-selling workbook has now been updated to ensure ArcGIS 10 compatibility. Written by a team of technical and education
Monday, July 26th, 2010
INDABA – Africa needs to look for home-grown solutions to the challenges of energy poverty, rather than relying on conventional models that respond to conditions in developed countries. So says Brian Statham, the Chairman of the South African National Energy Association (SANEA) and Chairman of the Energy Access Partnership (EAP). Read More
Monday, July 26th, 2010
Winners of the annual international competition “CAD in Construction 2010 or Rock at Sziget with ArchiCAD” were announced at the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. First prize was awarded to Olga Khamatgalieva, a fourth-year student at Southern Federal University (Institute of Architecture and Art) in Rostov-on-Don. Read More
