Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced today that it has appointed General Michael P. C. Carns (retired USAF) to serve on its board of directors. He joins nine other board members. General Carns has been appointed as the board representative of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. GeoEye partnered with Cerberus, which
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Municipality of Recanati in Italy purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 to assist in the service planning and development of land and buildings. The procurement is contributed by Helix S.r.l., the exclusive distributor of SuperGeo in Italy.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
SuperWebGIS is the map server software being able to publish dynamic maps and GIS data to the Internet. SuperWebGIS provides the scalable framework, highly supports geodatabases, and offers complete GIS objects and various website templates. Therefore, SuperWebGIS can meet the demands of publishing and displaying the spatial data to efficiently achieve the goal of data
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
There were reports in the press this week that Polish citizens could see the price of water rocket sky high over the coming four years. According to an article in TVN24’s business section, if tens of billions of zlotys are not spent on upgrading the country’s sewage system and sewage treatment plants, then Poland may find
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
During a meeting in CNET’s offices, Kanwar Chadha, CMO of CSR Technology, noted that all content is becoming location-aware. Smartphone apps and navigation devices can tailor information to a user’s personal surroundings. Taking advantage of that trend, Chadha’s company, which provides GPS chips for navigation devices, has developed a new generation of products that can
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Today, Esri released the second portion of its Census 2010 data that combines the PL94-171 file and variables from Summary File 1 (SF-1) into a single database. Demographic categories include population, age, race and ethnicity, household type, household size, family, housing, and mortgage status.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Virtual Geographic Environments, from Esri Press, is a collection of key papers written by leading members of the geospatial community that examines the relationship between GIS and virtual geographic environments (VGE). Edited by professors Hui Lin and Michael Batty, the book is organized into five sections, beginning with a primer on VGEs and followed by
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, has announced changes to senior management in anticipation of significant growth. Drawing from its pool of talented employees, OpenGeo has named geospatial veteran Eddie Pickle as Chief Operating Officer, Tim Schaub as Chief Technology Officer, Ken Bossung as Senior Vice President, and Alyssa Wright as
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMC) launched a new version of its Geoportal system http://geoportal.cuzk.cz using Intergraph’s GeoMedia SDI suite. By doing so, the Office becomes one of the first national mapping agencies to fulfil its obligations arising from the INSPIRE Directive of European Parliament.
