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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

2012 URISA Vanguard Cabinet Members Announced

URISA is pleased to announce the new members of its Vanguard Cabinet. The Vanguard Cabinet (VC) is a URISA initiative to engage young GIS practitioners, increase their numbers in the organization, and better understand the concerns facing these future leaders of the GIS community.  The VC is an advisory board made up of URISA young

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Half Price DMCii 2011 Country Image Pack in New Year Sale

Remote sensing solutions provider DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has today launched its New Year sale during which customers can purchase its high quality, ready-to-use country image packs half price. DMCii imaging specialists have produced complete, high quality 22m multi-spectral satellite imagery of many countries in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas.  The image packs

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

E-on Software Ships Vue 10 Linux Rendering Solutions

High profile VFX facilities such as Dreamworks Animation, Weta Digital and ILM have been requesting Linux based Vue RenderNodes for years. E-on software is happy to announce that this option is now available to any production facility, big or small, that uses a Linux based renderfarm. “Vue is an important component of the production workflow of

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

GRAPHISOFT Releases ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012

GRAPHISOFT today announced the release of ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012, the latest release of its entry-level Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution. The new ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012 is based on the robust BIM technology of ArchiCAD 15, but with a feature set and price tailored to the needs of small architectural practices, home builders, and building

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

GRAPHISOFT Releases ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012

GRAPHISOFT today announced the release of ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012, the latest release of its entry-level Building Information Modeling (BIM) solution. The new ArchiCAD STAR(T) Edition 2012 is based on the robust BIM technology of ArchiCAD 15, but with a feature set and price tailored to the needs of small architectural practices, home builders, and building

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Learn How the GIS Sixth Sense Can Bolster a Successful GIS Career

Today’s job market demands experts who can not only use GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology, but who also possess a higher level of understanding of how GIS tools are used to create workplace solutions that can meet a broad range of organizational challenges – also known as the GIS Sixth Sense.

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

World Bank and Google Join Forces to Empower Mapping Communities

Today the World Bank and Google announced a collaborative agreement aimed at improving disaster preparedness and development efforts in countries around the world. Under this agreement, the World Bank will act as a conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters,

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Chancellor George Osborne Unveils Plans for UK’s First ‘Airport City’ in Manchester

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, today unveiled plans for the development of a £659million ‘Airport City’ – the first of its kind in the UK – at Manchester Airport in the North West of England. Read More

Monday, January 16th, 2012

The Present and the Future of Tekla and Trimble

“After some confusion at the very beginning, our integration is moving along very smoothly,” says Risto Räty, Executive Vice President of Tekla.  “Our priorities are clear. The first step has involved aligning our business processes with those of Trimble’s. As we are a part of a listed company based in the US, we have shifted to

Monday, January 16th, 2012

Bricsnet and MABEC Group Announce Strategic Alliance

Bricsnet FM America, Inc. and MABEC Group, Inc. today formalized a strategic alliance to create a bi-directional data exchange between cloud-based BIM databases and Bricsnet, the corporate real estate/facilities management tool. “Data exchange between Building Information Models and Geospatial Information Systems will greatly increase the ability of Integrated Workplace Management Systems to improve productivity for corporate