Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Saint-Laurent is a highly industrialized borough in the City of Montreal and the second-largest employment hub in the city, after downtown Montreal. To support its strategic development plan, Saint-Laurent developed GeoUSOL, an urban planning system that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. The innovative system provides planners with advanced mapping and geographic analysis capabilities that
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
1Spatial is delighted to announce the company’s participation in a new, collaborative project OpenStreetMap Great Britain (OSM-GB), in partnership with the Centre for Geospatial Science at the University of Nottingham, to create a quality enhanced and topologically structured version of OpenStreetMap covering Great Britain. OSM is a free and open worldwide map created by a
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
This document defines a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) digital topographic map. This map series, named “US Topo,” is modeled on what is referred to as the standard USGS 7.5-minute (1:24,000-scale) topographic map series that was created during the period from 1947 to approximately 1992. The US Topo map product has the same extent, scale, and
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
A 31-year-old Ghanaian geodetic engineer, Richard Appiah Otoo, has won the African Geospatial Excellence Award for Utilities Management. Mr. Appiah Otoo, Geographic Information on Systems Manager (GIS) at Ghana Water Company Ltd. , (GWCL) received the prestigious award at a ceremony during the 6th Africa Geospatial Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 6th, 2011. Read
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
A radically different web mapping solution which simplifies and improves data management and security, whilst allowing users to self-serve data, has been launched by Dotted Eyes. RMX4 was developed in response to a challenge from Dotted Eyes’ existing customers. Ben Allan, MD of Dotted Eyes, explains, “Too often, the richness of the front-end is the sole
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
We enable organizations and individuals to easily manage and access geospatial data. Data is securely hosted on our cloud or behind your firewall and available through a range of geo tools and APIs. Read More
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the agreement it reached with Esri CIS in Russia to become an authorized reseller for its GeoExpress®, Express Server® and LiDAR Compressor™ geospatial imaging products. Esri CIS, headquartered in Moscow, Russia, will sell LizardTech’s software products to companies and organizations in the
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Liverpool, Mexico’s largest department store chain, has chosen GRAPHISOFT’s award-winning ArchiCAD to implement BIM in expanding its chain of stores across Mexico. Liverpool embraced BIM as a means to plan, administer and control the processes involved in the construction, expansion, and modification of its stores.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
HP today announced that two HP Designjet Printers and HP ePrint & Share) received top honours from Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories (BERTL) and Buyer’s Laboratory Inc. (BLI), reflecting their overall ease of use, application versatility and output quality.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Since Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway have signed a declaration of intention to make the North of functional airspace blocks (NEFAB), held this week in Helsinki working group meeting on policy issues and strategic direction treaty. Block of the establishment for the three-tier contracts – air navigation service providers, monitoring and implementation of control, as well
