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Monday, December 5th, 2016

TomTom Confirms Reorganization Rumors

AMSTERDAM – Responding to questions in Dutch media today, TomTom (TOM2) announces that within the Consumer business unit 170 roles have been reorganized. Of those roles, 110 will move to other areas within the company and 60 roles are made redundant, of which 24 are in The Netherlands. About TomTom At TomTom (TOM2) our mission

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Technology Companies Move into Transportation

(Pleasanton, CA) December 05, 2016—Tech companies are moving to the automotive market, because that’s where the money is. In mid-November, Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, took the stage at the Los Angeles Auto Show to deliver his company’s first keynote address at an automotive event. The headline news in the widely anticipated speech was

Monday, December 5th, 2016

OGC Invites Participation in Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is calling for participation in its newly established Electromagnetic Spectrum Domain Working Group (EM Spectrum DWG). This group will review requirements for an international open standard data model and derived encoding(s) for data describing electromagnetic fields in real-world environments. After reviewing requirements, the group may charter an OGC Standards Working

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Innovative Partnership Will Deliver Quicker Response Times Near Customer’s Homes

An industry-leading innovative partnership between Northumbrian Water and data management specialists 1Spatial will help to enhance response times for customers who experience problems with the sewer network in and around their properties. By configuring 1Spatial’s unique software using Northumbrian Water’s expert engineering knowledge, a new model of the network was created. In 2011, some parts

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Lockheed Martin Advances Modernization of Current GPS Ground Control System for U.S. Air Force

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has completed a major upgrade to modernize the current ground control system of the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation.   The Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Upgrade #2 (CUP2) project is the latest step in the Air Force’s multi-year plan to refresh technology and transform

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Europe Takes Off for Space

“Europe’s ambitions in space have received another boost today and we applaud ESA’s decisions to furtjer develop Europe in space. European citizens will benefit greatly from our new innovative solutions,” said Nicolas Chamussy, Head of Space Systems, on decisions by ministers from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 22 member states. At their meeting on 1-2

Monday, December 5th, 2016

Celebrate the Legendary Leaders of the Geospatial Industry at GWF 2017’s Hall of Fame

Noida, India – Geospatial Media and Communications is glad to introduce the ‘Geospatial Hall of Fame’, a platform that celebrates and recognizes the unsurpassable legends of the geospatial industry. Ten visionary leaders, whose passion, vision, knowledge, leadership, and business acumen have brought geospatial industry to a global arena, will be felicitated and added to the

Monday, December 5th, 2016

BTS Opens New Fellows Program in Geospatial and Library Science

The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), one of the federal government’s principal statistical agencies, has opened a new fellows program for people looking to bring transformative change to data and geospatial information. These post-graduate research and developmental opportunities are currently available in the areas of Geospatial, Information Science/Library Science, and Data Visualization

Saturday, December 3rd, 2016

GIS/CAMA Technology Conference Heads to Chattanooga

Des Plaines, IL  – URISA and the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) are pleased to announce the 2017 GIS /CAMA Technologies Conference, March 6-9, 2017 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For more than twenty years, the organizations have hosted a conference that assists assessment and appraisal professionals in visualizing how they can work more effectively through

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

The Highway Authority of Indonesia Chose SuperGIS Desktop 10

Supergeo is pleased to announce that its brand-new Desktop GIS software- SuperGIS Desktop 10 was recently selected by the Directorate General of Highways (DGH) of Indonesia to map and analyze spatial data. Under Ministry of Public Works, Indonesia, the Directorate General of Highways is responsible for planning, building, and managing national road networks. Because a