Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UK local authorities can now instantly pinpoint and contact all residents affected by road closures, floods or health hazards following the development of an innovative solution by GGP Systems. The company has combined computer mapping and property ID technology to create address lists allowing instant mail merges for notification or consultation letters and other direct communications. The
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
According to a recent study by ABI Research, cumulative global investment in smart grids will total over $45 billion in the next five years, as both governments and utilities repair, upgrade and transform their aging infrastructure. Much of the developed world relies on energy transmission technology and infrastructure that was built between 60 and 80
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The countdown for Monday’s launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket carrying five satellites, including a cartography one for land mapping and information, began Saturday at the rocket port Sriharikota. The 44-metre tall PSLV is a four-stage rocket powered by solid and liquid propellants alternatively. Read More
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The grandaddy of online mapping sites is turning to an open source library for its cartography data. Mapquest, which is owned by AOL, launched a new beta site Friday that uses data from OpenStreetMap. So far, the OpenStreetMap data is only available on MapQuest for the United Kingdom and some of continental Europe, but MapQuest
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Google is to resume its Streetview mapping in towns and cities around Ireland after discussion with data privacy regulators. Google’s cars, equipped with cameras, low-level radar and GPS technology, will take to Irish roads again next week, snapping pictures of public roads. Google took the cars off the road in May and contacted data protection
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
ArcGIS Desktop users can now easily and quickly add demographic reports and data for the United States to their geographic information system (GIS) projects with Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) Reports Add-In. With it, users can create reports for their map layers and attach demographic data as attributes of those map layers for use in their
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Ashtech® today announced the MB 100 GNSS Board, the world’s most compact dual frequency RTK OEM board. Designed for demanding applications, MB 100 is the only RTK capable board designed to address equally well L1 GPS+SBAS standard applications, L1/L2 GPS+SBAS and L1 GPS/GLONASS + SBAS applications in the smallest form factor and power consumption ever.
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
REDD+ in dryland forests: Issues and prospects for pro-poor REDD in the miombo woodlands of southern Africa. Implementing REDD+ programs involves providing sufficient incentives to land users and requires a supportive policy, legal and institutional environment. Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) in the miombo ecoregion of east and southern Africa has addressed these issues in
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The Italian version is the sixth of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule,and follows the release of the International, German, Austrian, New Zealand, and USversions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010.For more information about the Italian version, please visit http://www.cigraph.it/cigraph/index.jsp.
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Esri offers a new, easier way to deploy ArcGIS Server called ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure, a preconfigured deployment of ArcGIS Server in a cloud environment. Users can license ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure for 1, 3, or 12 months and renew their licenses indefinitely without incurring added costs or paying maintenance fees. There’s no need
