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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

MAPPS Elects New Officers, Board of Directors

MAPPS, the only national association for private sector geospatial firms, elected three new members to the association’s Board of Directors and re-elected five others. The MAPPS Board also elected a slate of officers to serve the association for 2011-2013.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

DWI Supplies GRPS to Smart4Aviation

DW International Ltd now supplies RAIM prediction information from the GNSS RNP/RAIM Prediction Service directly to Smart4Aviation for its airline operator partners such as Air Canada for use with their pre-flight planning. RAIM prediction is required by airline operators performing PBN operations relying on GNSS as a navigation aid.

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Country’s First 525-MW Sets Go On Stream

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has announced the successful commissioning of the country’s first thermal set of 525-MW rating at Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand. The company had won the order for the 2×525 MW greenfield power project outbidding a leading Chinese equipment supplier under an international competitive bidding process from Maithon Power

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Bulgaria, Romania Set Stage for Massive Danube Hydro-Energy Projects

Bulgaria and Romania’s economy ministers have discussed two large-scale hydro-energy projects on the Danube, whose future realization is said to harbor great economic potential. Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Traicho Traikov was received Monday in Bucharest by his counterpart, Romania’s Minister of Economy, Commerce, and Business Environment Ion Ariton. Read More

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Ordnance Survey – Part of Dept for Business Innovation and Skills

The Prime Minister announced today that Ministerial responsibility for Ordnance Survey, alongside Land Registry and the Met Office, will pass to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS). The Government shareholding of Ordnance Survey and the Government’s customer functions both move from the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Monday, July 18th, 2011

City of Calgary Wins 2011 ESRI Special Achievement in GIS Award

ESRI Canada congratulates the City of Calgary for receiving the  ESRI Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award for its Core Mapping Project. The City was selected from more than 100,000 organizations worldwide for its outstanding use of geographic information system (GIS) technology to centralize municipal land information maintenance. This enables the City to produce consistent basemaps

Monday, July 18th, 2011

INSPIRE – Realisation Aspects in Austria

A framework / network that allows to search, view and download datasets and data series, allows advanced functionality and services (extending the core modules), implicates technical and organisational harmonisation and is accessible for third parties. Read More

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

RAMSAC – National Geodetic Reference of Argentina

The National Geodetic Reference Framework is the essential foundation on which rests all the mapping of the country. No frame of reference no mapping possible. The National Geographic Institute through the National Law of the Charter and Administrative Provision 526/96, National is responsible for establishing, maintaining, updating and improving the National Geodetic Reference Frame. On this framework perform

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

Buildings in OSM-3D: Now With Roof Geometries

The project OSM-3d.org becomes a bit more detailed and realistic. Since a couple of weeks, different OSM keys with building roof information (e.g. building:roof, building:roof:shape, building:roof:type, building:roof:angle and building:roof:height) are considered while building model creation. That is, based on this information, an approximate roof geometry is generated at least for simple building shapes in a

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

Cities Worldwide Destined to Save Billions While Becoming More Livable

Under the concept of Smart Cities, Smartmatic supplies the most innovative and advanced technological resources to solve the needs of cities in the fields of Public Transportation and Public Safety. “Launching Smart Cities is a response to the need of integrating different technological solutions already offered by Smartmatic and to allow authorities to take care of