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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Cape Town, South Africa Renovates its Appraisal System

The City of Cape Town, South Africa with a population of over three million is the second-most populous city in South Africa and the largest in land area— encompassing almost 1,000 square miles. Manatron, Inc., under the auspices of ILS is working to re-evaluate and replace an obsolete computer-assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) system. Read More

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

SuperGIS Mobile Engine Application Selected by Regione Marche in Italy

SuperGeo Technologies announced that its exclusive partner in Italy, Helix S.r.l., has successfully promoted the Helix Mobile Mapping System (HMMs) to Regione Marche for civil protection and spatial data collection.  

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Yellowbook Launches New Android Tablet App

Yellowbook, a national leader in local search, today announced the launch of a new version of its US Yellow Pages application that is designed for use on Android Tablets. Yellowbook’s US Yellow Pages application has already registered millions of downloads on the Google™ Android smartphone platform.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

The Most Surreal Project Designed in ArchiCAD

The recent “ArchiSUR” competition was held among the architect and designer members of the Russian social network, Vkontakte. Supported by GRAPHISOFT Russia, the objective of the “Architectural design in ArchiCAD” contest was to implement fresh visions in architecture and design using ArchiCAD.

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Fly Your Thesis! 2011 Campaign

The second series of flights in ESA’s ‘Fly Your Thesis!’ programme concluded recently. After many months of preparation, the 10-day campaign culminated with four student experiments making three parabolic flights aboard the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. Four student teams, from the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, were selected for this rare opportunity to conduct their

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service Adopts SAFEcommand

Astrium GEO-Information Services is working with Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (HFRS) to ensure emergency response crews have access to critical information on the front line. Hampshire FRS is now using Astium GEO-Information Services’ SAFEcommand Vehicle-Mounted Data System in all of its 130 appliances across the county. 

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Mangroves to Receive Huge Boost from New Carbon Credit Rules

A new method for calculating the role that mangrove restoration plays in slowing climate change, by capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, has been adopted. The methodology is adopted under the UN climate change convention’s Kyoto Protocol, as part of the Clean Development Mechanism that supports emission reduction projects in developing countries. This

Monday, June 6th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at the Di2E Conference

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in booth #724 at the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) conference in Dallas, Texas this week. The company will showcase its entire line of geospatial products, including the recently launched GeoExpress® 8, which enables

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Surrey Police Select Symphony Bluelight From Aligned Assets

Surrey Police have selected gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets to supply them with software from their Symphony Bluelight suite of emergency services products. Similar to Aligned Assets’ SinglePoint solution that is well-established at British Transport Police, Surrey Police will be using the advanced web services in SinglePoint to act as a bridge between their gazetteer data and

Monday, June 6th, 2011

ArcSoft Partners With Spatial View to Provide an Auto-Stereoscopic 3D Playback Solution

ArcSoft, Inc. announced that its best-selling multimedia player, ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 5, is now integrated with Spatial View’s innovative auto-stereo 3D solution, the 3DeeScreen, allowing users to view glasses-free 3D on standard laptops.