Friday, November 11th, 2011
A 3D model from aerial surveying specialist Bluesky is helping developers, architects and planning professionals assess the impact of urban building projects in the North East England. Supplied to Virtual Newcastle Gateshead the Bluesky data forms an extension to an existing city model and will help improve decision making and realise time and cost savings
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
FARO Technologies, Inc. and KOREC, a specialist of surveying applications, have signed an agreement. Under these terms KOREC will supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. FARO is delighted to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with KOREC to supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D Laser Scanner, an instrument which uses laser technology to produce
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
FARO announces the availability of the new version of SCENE WebShare, its powerful tool for easy and safe sharing of scan data over the Internet. Thanks to WebShare scan projects can be published on a web server with only one click. WebShare permits easy access and sharing of laser scans generated with a FARO Focus3D within
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the immediate commercial availability of its new AECOsim Energy Simulator software and commercial availability in early Q1 2012 of its new AECOsim Building Designer software (currently in Bentley’s early adopter program). AECOsim Compliance Manager for LEED certification was released in May. The AECOsim family of products provides interdisciplinary building design, analysis, and simulation software focused on helping architectural,
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
With more and more councils now shifting their costly face to face and phone transactions online, Herefordshire Council announces it has chosen Dotted Eyes’ web mapping solution to enable residents to instantly visualise planning applications in their area, replacing legacy technology. Residents within Herefordshire will soon be able to use the council’s website to easily pinpoint
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated launched the first and only comprehensive, integrated software developed specifically to design, model, and deliver both raceway and cable systems, for plant and manufacturing facilities and utility substations. Taking intelligent models from design through construction and into operations, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management V8i uniquely integrates functional design with detailed physical design and includes a wide range
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project’, designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula’s historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps. This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Nearly 124,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from the USGS
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
International partners are looking ahead to Europe’s second polar-orbiting mission dedicated to operational meteorology – MetOp-B is set for launch next May. The Meteorological Operational satellite programme is providing weather data services for monitoring the climate and improving weather forecasts.
