Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Scott David, Vice President of DPRA, announced today the launch of a new division of the company, called A-Prime Software. A-Prime will now provide enhancement technologies that address the limitations of the current ArcGIS ESRI platform used by so many GIS professionals–from environmental engineers and mining analysts to geologists and construction developers.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The European Commission launched a call for tender for a study on modelling work in the field of agriculture. The Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI) has been using the European Simulation Model (ESIM) as a tool for economic analyses. It is a partial equilibrium model which represents the agricultural sectors of
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Two of the outdoor industry’s leaders in mapping and navigation, Magellan and National Geographic, today announced an alliance that will make National Geographic’s award-winning, full-color topography maps fully compatible with handheld GPS receivers for the first time. Beginning this fall, Magellan will become the first GPS manufacturer to offer full, onscreen compatibility, usage and display
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
SLIDESHOW Factors Enabling the Use of Geoinformation in Africa’s Development Craig Schwabe Download
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
REPORT Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) Dr. Wilber Ottichilo, Director General of RCMRD Download
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
REPORT Data content standards in Africa Antony K Cooper (CSIR), Sives Govender (EIS-Africa), Kate Lance (USGS/EROS), Larry L Tieszen (USGS/EROS) Download
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
SLIDESHOW The geoinformation industry in africa: prospects and potentials Craig A. Schwabe, Director, GIS Centre, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa DOWNLOAD
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
URISA Journal, Authors: Yola Georgiadou and Michael Blakemore Mainstream GIS journals are studied to assess whether the papers they contain reflect the present diversity of GI and GIS research issues, as well as the extent to which the journals can be differentiated as separate GIS brands. Then, focusing on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) as an
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
‘Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow’ Society faces many challenges that increase the importance of developing suitable and sustainable physical infrastructure. There’s a growing need to understand the processes and systems that build infrastructure to support healthy, sustainable and quality living conditions. To gain this understanding requires geospatial tools and technologies, applications and
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE — eSpatial, a global enterprise geospatial software and technology company in partnership with Geomatic Technologies (GT), one of Australia’s leading providers of location-based business intelligence solutions, information products and services, today announced the deployment of an advanced web editing pilot for the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria, Australia. The TOE
