Thursday, September 6th, 2007
The Emerging Norwegian Municipal Structure In Norway, as in the other Nordic countries, a discussion is currently taking place in respect of how to reform sub-national political and administrative structures. At present Norway, with a population of 4.7 million, holds direct elections to 431 municipalities, in Norwegian termed kommune, and 19 counties (in Norwegian fylkeskommune).
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
SDI Social and Economic Impact – Users’ perspective SDI is recognized as an essentially tool and promot Download Slideshow (2006) (13 slides, 391 KB PDF)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Data Harvesting – SnowFlake Software The concept of data harvesting can be quite daunting to most users. It provides yet another theory to learn, more industry terms (round-tripping) to follow and, undoubtedly, there will be more acronyms to study. But the concept itself is really very simple. n effect, data harvesting is the gathering of
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
FIMR Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Environment: Annual Report 2006 Report Series of the Finnish Institute of Marine Research. Download (2006) (113 pages; 21.55 MB PDF)
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Implementation of the North European Gas Pipeline Project A basic agreement on the construction of the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) through the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany was signed on 8 September 2005. Due to the scale of the construction, the project requires Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Under the Convention on Environmental Impact
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced that SSi Solutions Ltd. has selected Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System as the digital mapping/GIS core of the new SSi Fire Hydrant Management System (FHMS). This fourth generation of SSi’s hydrant management system is a powerful, digital map-based management tool that is
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
BETWEEN THE POLES BLOG: Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges in the construction industry, I think that they are going
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced that its business partner in the Netherlands, Vicrea Solutions BV, has recently won contracts from several Dutch municipalities to supply and implement Vicrea’s Geo Vastgoed Registraties (GVR) application, which has been developed using Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System. Read More
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
DER SPIEGEL – Tallinn is not just a world heritage site with a history ranging far back to the Middle Ages — by bestowing its citizens with the fundamental right to free Internet access, Estonia has also become the most-wired country in Eastern Europe. Read More
