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Monday, March 9th, 2009

UK – Northwest Regional Strategy Open for Consultation

PR – The Regional Strategy for the Northwest provides a unique opportunity to bring together its spatial, economic, social and environmental strategies and build a new long term vision for the region. 

The goal is to produce an agreed strategy that will guide action and investment by Business, National and Local Government and the Voluntary

Friday, March 6th, 2009

AGI GeoCommunity ’09 – “Realising the Value of Place”

PR – As a delegate at one of the previous events I wanted to keep you informed about the progress of this year’s AGI GeoCommunity conference. At the end of last year’s GeoCommunity most of you told us that you wanted to return to the Holiday Inn at Stratford-upon-Avon, so that is what we are

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

The European Urban Atlas – Supporting City Habitability

Consumption of natural land for settlements, industry and transport infrastructure proceeds with an alarming pace in Europe and disagrees with the stagnating population. Every three years we lose a surface area equivalent to the size of Luxemburg. Structural Funds of the EU have been held partially responsible for the ill-development. In order to obtain an

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Is It Time to Rationalise and Re-Invent Geospatial Conferences and Workshops?

“Recent events in the world economy have turned the budgets of most companies inside out and upside down. Stock prices have dropped, earnings are being impacted and travel budgets are being limited in many cases. Both industry and individuals are looking for value as they deal with the economic situation. But ruling out the opportunity

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

Pour a glass of water out of a kitchen tap throughout the Canterbury region of New Zealand and chances are you’ll be staring at what many consider the finest drinking water in the world. Cool, clear and untouched, it’s originated in the mountains of the Southern Alps, travelled across the Canterbury Plains in the large

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Spicycles – Sustainable Policies For Cities On Cycling

When the Spicycles project was launched in 2006, cycling was not the ‘hot’ mode of transport that it has become today. As project partners, we wanted to gather experience related to specific areas of cycling policy. We were keen to explore how key elements such as communication and awareness raising, and the building of local

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Farmers to Receive New Set Aside Payments

THE TELEGRAPH – The compulsory set-aside scheme for farmers in receipt of support under the Single Payment Scheme was effectively abandoned by the European Commission in 2008 following widespread flooding and concerns about high global food prices. Read More

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Designing Geodatabases for Transportation

Transportation networks are highly spatial in nature and dependent upon a high level of planning in their design, operation and maintenance. Accordingly, they are well suited to geographical information systems (GIS) tools. While we tend to think of transport networks in a continuous fashion, primarily to get us from Point A to Point B, these

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

AGI 2009 Business Plan now published

AGI UK – The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) has today published its Business Plan for 2009. The document, freely available in full as a PDF, is the result of significant input on the part of AGI’s members and contributions from AGI staff. Read More

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Product Review: Visual Nature Studio 3.0

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