Sunday, November 16th, 2008
The International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-Based Navigation and Ground-Based Augmentation Systems and Applications was held last week in Berlin. Bringing together representatives from around the world, the event served to provide as a forum for learning about ongoing activity relating to GNSS. Also included were activities and information relating to additional positioning
Monday, November 10th, 2008
PR – Iberdrola provided the wind-turbine technology that Community Energy was lacking (and ended up buying the company outright), and today the utility provides enough power from the wind to light up about 6,500 homes. Iberdrola is also on the prowl in other parts of the U.S.; buying out two other wind farm developers last
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Traditionally, in the building sector, local materials with low energy costs and low environmental impact were used. Nowadays, global materials such as cement, aluminium,concrete and PVC are used, increasing the energy costs and environmental impact. At present, the building sector contributes largely in the global environmental load of human activities: for instance, around 40% of
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Under sunny skies and with 1600 registered users in attendance, the annual ESRI EMEA User Conference was held in London, UK last week at the Queen Elizabeth Convention Centre under the theme ‘GIS for everyday life’. Richard Waite, president of ESRI (UK) opened the show welcoming guests from across the globe. He said that this
Friday, October 31st, 2008
New technologies are enabling environmental planners to collaborate and communicate in more effective ways. The Virtual Environmental Planning Project is a EU programme Interreg IIIB NWE and Department for Communities and Local Government (UK) effort that was completed in 2008. The project resulted in technologies that support public participation in the planning consultation process through
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
The development of a Global Spatial Data Infrastructure requires the integration of spatial information from a wide number of actors using different technologies through space and time. This fusion of geoinformation poses unique representation challenges because the requirements for 3-D representation are different than traditional 2-D representation. Earl F. Burkholder is the author of
Friday, October 24th, 2008
The Atlas of Sustainability Indicators for Coastal Municipalities of the State of Rio de Janeiro has been developed in order to publish the results of the analysis of 40 sustainability indicators, within the six ecodevelopment dimensions proposed by Ignacy Sachs (spatial, cultural, economical, ecological, social and political), as to the 34 coastal municipalities of the
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
In Zhejiang province in the southern part of the Yangtze River Delta on the southeast coast of China, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of Zhejiang contributed to the completion of digital line graphs covering the entire 101,800-square-kilometer province. All together, 17 maps in scales of 1:250000, 330 maps in scales of 1:50000, 4,107 maps in
Friday, October 10th, 2008
In Sweden most of the 290 municipalities used to have their own local coordinate systems. The national geodata is stored and distributed in a separate national system. This difference has created problems over time when attempting to share and collaborate at both local and national levels based on each set of geoinformation. Sweden is now
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
INTERGEO 2008 opened under rainy skies in the northern city of Bremen, Germany with the theme ‘Knowledge and action for planet earth’. With 478 exhibitors from 29 countries in attendance, presentations included reference to the changing world, climatic threats and the need for authoritative data to meet these challenges – a theme V1 Magazine has
