Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Ordnance Survey’s (OS) small and mid-scale OS Open Data products are to be included in Esri’s Community Topographic Base Map (CTBM). In 2010, Esri created the CTBM for geospatial data holders, such as governments and organisations, to contribute information to. Esri integrates this data in the CTBM and publishes it through ArcGIS Online as a map service. Many
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Europa Technologies has today announced two new services for the mobile telecom industry to provide accurate and up-to-date roaming coverage information. Network Insight Pro and Global Coverage Analyzer are the result of an alliance with American Roamer, the owner of the world’s largest wireless coverage database. Network Insight Pro is a new and innovative service offering interactive
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Tim Arcano, an ocean engineer with extensive experience in naval submarine and submersible design and engineering was selected as director of NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER). Arcano is slated to begin Nov. 7. OER provides direction to NOAA and advises the U.S. Department of Commerce in the field of ocean exploration, research,
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
A United Nations group established to preserve humanity’s documentary history has selected a portion of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat archive of Earth imagery to be added to the Memory of the World International Register. The continuous data record reveals both gradual change, as in glacier movement or coastline erosion, and sudden change, as in
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Lockheed Martin announced today that it will begin integration of GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later this month. The start of vehicle integration marks the on-schedule progress of installation and testing of satellite components and subsystems over
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
OpenGeo, the open source technology leader behind the OpenGeo Suite, has hired well-known software developer Martin Davis. Mr. Davis is best known for his core work on the JTS Topology Suite, he is joining OpenGeo during a period of rapid growth, and will be bringing his substantial expertise to the continued development of the OpenGeo
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Esri UK has launched the UK’s first GIS solution for local authorities, LocalView Fusion, in the cloud. Local authorities can now benefit from engaging citizens with interactive maps and location-driven information, at both reduced cost and complexity.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
VIRTALIS has just shipped Version 1.1 of GeoVisionary. Sales of the pioneering 3D geosciences visualiser have sky rocketed over the last year, with leading geological institutions, mining companies and nuclear scientists world-wide all deploying GeoVisionary to view their data.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
SuperGeo announced that the branch company of Aurecon Company in South Africa has purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 for their GIS/Data Management Department, which is planning to cooperate with SuperGeo’s South Africa distributor, Spatial Perspective for the purpose of marketing SuperGIS Software jointly in the future.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Herefordshire Council has purchased a package of geo-spatial data from Getmapping. The package includes the latest 12.5cm resolution imagery of the whole county (2,400 sq km) plus 10cm resolution and oblique imagery for Hereford itself. This is complemented by Getmapping’s Digital Surface (DSM) and Digital Terrain Models (DTM) of the county, derived from the same
