Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality said the Municipality is one of the leading departments in the government of Dubai which has always sought to achieve the best results and highest levels in all areas as it pursues a policy of well planned steps and works as a team to reach the
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
1Spatial is delighted to announce that they have recently signed a landmark agreement that will establish a dedicated 1Spatial office in Australia and provide local access to highly sought after technical expertise in 1Spatial products. PSMA Australia is a government owned public company, tasked with developing national spatial datasets. Since 2001, PSMA Australia has been
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Keep updated on the 3D industrys current trends and future prospects for urban planning, landscape conservation and territory management over the course of 2 days of specially themed 3D City and Territory Modelling conferences between 4th and 5th February 2010. Visit the Exhibition Hall to discover new 3D tools and the latest technological innovations.
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
ESA – The highly indented and ruggedly mountainous coast of eastern Greenland, one of the most isolated habitations in the world, is featured in this Envisat image. Covering more than 2 000 000 sq km, Greenland is the world’s largest island. Read More
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Soil Action is establishing an action plan for the development of measures/programmes/initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of soil across European society (i.e. policy makers, general public, universities, schools, industry, etc.). Please have a look in the Educatunal Material (Examples) listed in the page: http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Awareness/Inventory.cfm (it is nto yet published officially).
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
The HP – Press Event 2009 was recently held in Barcelona, Spain. The two-day event included a tour of the Institute of Advanced Architecture (Iaac) in the center of the city accompanied by formal presentations from members of the HP Research Print facilities in nearby San Cugat together with a tour and presentations at those
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
DUTCH NEWS NL – People using trams and buses in Rotterdam have ‘given’ the public transport company €40m by not checking out their smart cards when they get off, the Telegraaf reports on Friday. On one in five journeys, passengers forget to swipe their card when leaving a bus or tram, meaning they pay an
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
The geospatial community has long supported the idea that open data leads to the development of applications and new technologies. The prevailing theory goes something like this; if people have access to open geospatial data then they will use it to develop applications. That seems logical and is certainly one of the goals many of
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
ONLINE ATHENS – Geography isn’t a very entertaining subject when textbooks and maps are the only tools students have when it comes time to learn about rivers, lakes and cities. So when wide-eyed second-graders at Winterville Elementary School got to dance and slap high-fives with a living, breathing map of Georgia on Monday afternoon, for
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
As humans, we have an innate and natural tendency to establish patterns and associations in our environment. Consider for a moment, the capability of the human brain to “process millions of visual, acoustic, olfactory, tactile, and motor data, and…the astonishing ability to learn from experience, generalize from learned rules, recognize patterns, and make decisions”.
