Thursday, October 4th, 2007
During a visit with local students today, the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, unveiled the brand new 2007 wall map of Canada. The Minister hand-delivered the first map while speaking to a Grade 11 Global Studies class at Parklands School in his home riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. The new map is 25 percent
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Dave Lovell has been appointed as the new Executive Director of EuroGeographics. Dave is currently the Programme Manager at EuroGeographics, a post he has held for the last year, and will take up his new appointment immediately after the General Assembly in Dubrovnik. We congratulate Dave on his appointment and wish him every success for
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
I had the opportunity to interview three prominent people in the UK geoinformation community while at the Association for Geographic Information (AGi) conference in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Vanessa Lawrence is Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the British Ordnance Survey, Andy Coote is Consultancy Services Director for ESRI (UK) and Ed Parsons is Geospatial Technologist for Google.
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
BBC – Another 10,000 baby salmon are being released into a formerly-polluted river, after evidence proved fish stocks are starting to thrive. The fish are being released into the River Churnet in Staffordshire, a river which was once one of the worst polluted in Europe. Salmon were reintroduced to the river last year and Environment
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
AlpTransit Gotthard is creating a flat rail link for future travel through the Alps. At the heart of the new transalpine rail route is Gotthard Base Tunnel. With a length of 57 km, the world’s longest tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. This pioneering achievement of the 21st century will bring major
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
NovAtel Inc. a precise positioning technology company, has achieved a Galileo program milestone through the award of a contract worth €6.3M (US$8.6M) by Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) for the continued development of the Ground Reception Chain (GRC) reference receiver for Galileo, Europe’s state-of-the-art Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). TAS-I, NovAtel and Space Engineering were
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
THE GUARDIAN – Portuguese surfers keeping an eye on the weather will be joined this month by engineers and businessmen, but they will be hoping for very different reports. The men and women behind the latest renewable energy project will be looking for a flat, calm sea. Portugal is poised to open what will be
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
SWECO’s consultants in Norway will prepare a construction plan for the E6 motorway through Gudbrandsdalen, including a four kilometre tunnel. This is the first new tunnel project to be undertaken after the collapse of Norway’s Hanekleiv Tunnel last December. The assignment will be carried out on behalf of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and is
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Tackling the growing spatial information management market, earthmine will unveil its ground-breaking technology to collect, deliver and utilize accurate street-level three dimensional geospatial information for urban environments at the DEMOfall 07 Conference. earthmine co-founders, John Ristevski and Anthony Fassero, will lead the DEMO stage presentation on Tuesday, September 25, 2007. The company, founded in 2006,
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
DENMARK.DK – Copenhagen should erase its greenhouse gas footprint by becoming a carbon dioxide-neutral city by 2025, according to Claus Bondam, the city’s deputy mayor for environmental and infrastructure issues, reports weekly newsletter Mandag Morgen. Bondam would like to present the first measures for reducing the city’s greenhouse gas emissions before the 2009 UN climate
