Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
EEA – How clean is the air in your city? Is the local transport environmentally friendly? What about noise pollution and the state of the green areas? Four out of five Europeans now live in cities and the environment in urban areas is directly linked to our quality of life. Read More
Monday, June 30th, 2008
THE TELEGRAPH – Prince Charles is planning to launch a £1bn property fund that will invest in sustainable building projects and expand his burgeoning business empire. Read more
Friday, June 27th, 2008
PR – Geospatial Holdings, Inc. today announced the completion of a project mapping underground fiber optic conduit for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in the City of Milpitas, California utilizing the Company’s proprietary Smart Probe Technologies.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Two of the fundamental questions natural resource managers should pose to themselves from time to time are: “What is it that is being managed and over what time frame?”. In this article I will delve into these questions using the boreal forest as an example and consider the consequences of the answers for natural resource
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Free State of Saxony in Germany has been developing a forest management system that has evolved into the Saxon Forest Geographical Information System (FGIS). The system not only supports forestry but it integrates tightly into the wider Saxony Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Both government agencies and citizens can access the system, sharing information and
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
GUARDIAN / OBSERVER – The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans – and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer. Read More
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
PR – Children are set to benefit from the first educational wall map to clearly show the worldwide impact of global warming. Dynamic World, produced by British cartographic company Global Mapping, offers a unique way to view the areas most at risk due to the consequences of human activity and natural phenomena.
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industry consortium of 369 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. Several of these members originate from Europe and that is where Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston met with Mark Reichardt, president and CEO, Martin Klopfer, European Programs
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
PR – With 10-times the performance, optional 64-bit processing, standards-based ECAD-MCAD collaboration, and new integration with Microsoft Office, what’s not to like about ProductView 9.1? Read More
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
CityGML is emerging as a model for defining the structures for organising urban information. It aims to identify the meaning and function of objects in a city. Thomas Kolbe became initially involved in CityGML from the beginning. Vector1 Media editor Jeff Thurston met up with him at the recently held Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability
