Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
MDA Information Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce and welcome Dr. Denise D. Royle as Principal Scientist of Human Geography. Denise will be responsible for developing innovative and efficient geospatial solutions to address challenging defense and intelligence community issues. Denise joins MDA Information Systems, Inc. with nearly twenty years of expertise in analyzing and interpreting
Monday, January 30th, 2012
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, today announced that in collaboration with Planifi-K they are providing cutting-edge solutions for fleet transportation and distribution to Praxair, the largest industrial gas firm in North America and the largest supplier of helium and
Monday, January 30th, 2012
With HTML5 & WebGL it is possible to render 3D content directly in the Web browser without the need for Plugins or Applets. A demonstrator has been put online by the GIScience Research Group (http://giscience.uni-hd.de) at the University of Heidelberg, that shows how to stream large point clouds that have been derived from laser scanning
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
U.S. government agencies are working together to look for ways to reduce the cost of future Landsat missions as a result of congressional direction included in the 2012 budget passed in December. “Although Congress has provided $2 million to the U.S. Geological Service for Landsat 9 program development, they have also requested that the Administration
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Programme managers and technical experts overseeing four of the world’s regional satellite navigation augmentation systems met this week, with ESA coordinating the participation of stakeholders in Europe’s own EGNOS system. The Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) Interoperability Working Group (IWG) was hosted by the German Aerospace Center, DLR, at Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in southern Germany, on
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
It’s been a long time since out last release. We have been busy replacing some of the engines to make sure YVision can execute on as many as possible platforms. This work paid off with better support for Silverlight 5 in this release and mobile devices support in the near future. Check out the features in this latest
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Jameson House is a new 35-storey mixed-use tower in the heart of Vancouver and includes the first residential development to be completed by the practice in North America – completed at the end of last year, already the building is now almost fully occupied. The project combines the restoration of heritage buildings with new construction:
Friday, January 27th, 2012
OpenGeo, the organization behind the OpenGeo Suite has announced their sponsorship of the 2012 FOSS4G-NAconference. The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial – North America (FOSS4G-NA) conference will be hosted by OSGeo North America from April 10th to 12th, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Confirmed keynote speakers include
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Blom ASA (Blom) has signed an agreement to divest its Danish subsidiary BlomInfo A/S to the Danish engineering and consulting company NIRAS A/S. Blom will receive a consideration of DKK 19.4 million as compensation for the equity in BlomInfo A/S and working capital provided by Blom to BlomInfo A/S. After the completion date Blom may receive up to
