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Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Nokia Applies for Delisting From the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Nokia has decided to apply for the delisting of Nokia’s shares from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange due to the decreased trading volumes of Nokia shares at the exchange. The application for the delisting will be made to the Management Board of Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Subject to approval, the final day of trading of Nokia shares

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

ESA Opens Landsat Archives

Over 30 years of archived data from the US Landsat Earth-observing satellites are now available, free of charge. The majority of these products are unique to ESA’s archive and have never before been accessible anywhere else by the scientific user community.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

FlexiCadastre to Become Kenya’s new Mining Cadastre System

Spatial Dimension is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Kenyan Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources to implement FlexiCadastre as Kenya’s new computerised Mining Cadastre System.The new Mining Cadastre System will improve transparency and security of tenure; increase accessibility of information to private sector investors including small-scale miners; and

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Nobiskrug Makes Strategic Investment in AVEVA Solution

AVEVA announced Nobiskrug, a leading German shipyard, has strategically invested in the AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management product family (AVEVA ERM).  Already an AVEVA Marine customer, Nobiskrug has now selected the AVEVA Material, AVEVA Planning and AVEVA Production products.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Dotted Eyes Web Mapping Solution – Adopted by Housing Associations

Shoreline Housing Partnership, a provider of affordable housing in North East Lincolnshire, has rolled out Dotted Eyes’ latest intranet mapping solution, RMX4, to provide its customer service team with greater visibility of its assets whilst improving the efficiency of its workforce.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

SuperPad 3 Selected by NAVAIDS in Australia

SuperGeo Technologies shared that NAVAIDS, a GPS and survey company based in Perth, Australia, selected SuperPad 3– the fully-functional mobile GIS software, for the professional project services. The procurement is contributed by Cody Corp., SuperGeo’s distributor in Australia.

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

con terra Released New Version of sdi.suite securityManager

The management of access rights to services and data is increasingly becoming a key requirement, both in service-based spatial data infrastructures as well as company-wide enterprise solutions. con terra GmbH has developed sdi.suite securityManager specifically for these tasks. It limits access to authorized users, filters content according to individual access rights and provides extensive functionality

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

AeroGRID Adds Imagery of Switzerland

AeroGRID has signed a data distribution  agreement with swisstopo, the Swiss national mapping agency. Under the agreement AeroGRID will provide access to aerial imagery of the whole of Switzerland via its WMS server.  AeroGRID now hosts over 1.5 million square kilometres, of continuous aerial survey coverage on its WMS web server and is working actively

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

LAS 1.4 Specification Approved by ASPRS Board

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) is pleased to announce LAS 1.4, a new release of the open file format for lidar data storage and delivery. ASPRS has been maintaining and updating this widely used specification since its inception in 2001.

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Introducing BlomSTREET: a High-resolution Street-level Imagery Service

BlomSTREET is a collection of georeferenced, high-resolution, 360 degree panoramic images that are photographed on street-level. The camera equipment used is mounted on the roof of a specially equipped car taking an image every five meters on average in the collection process. The technology comes from the Dutch company Cyclomedia. Blom signed a partnership agreement with