Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Historical maps can be the last piece of the puzzle in genealogy research. What did the landscape look like decades ago when your ancestors settled in your town? How have place names, roads, and streams changed over time? Although technically out of date, these historical maps are often helpful to those researching a specific geographic
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Google have chosen the six finalists for the Google Model Your Town Competition. Now it’s your turn to help choose the winner. View the entries, then vote for the team you think did the best job. Take a look at the details page for criteria you can use to make your decision. Public voting ends
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Helix S.r.l., SuperGeo’s exclusive reseller in Italy, presented the GOES project at the OPEN DAYS. The project aims to create local networks gathering daily all relevant information about road conditions related to any criticisms and suggestions on alternative routes which are the important sources to prevent any accidental injury while a
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the integration of its MrSID Generation 4 Decode SDK (MG4 DSDK) into ClueTrust’s CartoMobile version 1.2 for iOS.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Esri Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to Dr. Jason Gilliland, a professor at Western University and a scientist for the Children’s Health Research Institute, for his outstanding application of geographic information system (GIS) technology to help improve children’s health in Southwestern Ontario. Dr. Gilliland led a multidisciplinary team in a research study of environmental
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Teledyne DALSA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has acquired a majority interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Communications via satellite are changing the way the forest industry harvests trees. A new approach being tested by ESA combines satcoms and cellular services to relay important information almost immediately so that fewer trees are used to produce more timber.
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator® and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 3.5 for Adobe Photoshop. This release is encompasses new support for import and export of spatial imagery formats.
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Nature’s Notebook needs you to get outside this spring, join many other observers across the nation, and help it reach its millionth observation of plant and animal life events. People like you — gardeners, farmers, birders, hikers, anglers, joggers, or all-around nature enthusiasts — are already recording the recurring events they see in the lives
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
During 2011, 820 natural catastrophes were documented around the world, resulting in 27,000 deaths and $380 billion in economic losses, according to data compiled by Munich Reinsurance Company and analyzed in the Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs series. The number of natural catastrophes was down 15 percent from 2010 but was above the annual average of
