Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Construction has begun on a new hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica, between the provinces of Alajuela and San José. The new plant, named Chucas, will have an installed capacity of 50 MW, and once fully up and running, will generate around 219 million kWh/year, equal to the annual consumption of over 81 thousand households
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
The public can now access the same aerial imagery of Christchurch that Police, Civil Defence, and other emergency responders have been using to assess damage to the area. The imagery of the city was flown on 24 February, and clearly shows the extent of the damage from the 22 February quake. As the country’s national mapping agency, Land Information
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG). WaterML 2.0 is a candidate OGC encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data. WaterML 2.0 is implemented as an application schema of the Geography Markup Language (GML) version 3.2.1 and makes use of the OGC
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Channel 4’s flagship programme Time Team, which has been uncovering the archaeological mysteries of the British Isles since 1994, has used sophisticated 3D laser scanning technology to create high definition flythough animations. A survey team from Digital Surveys captured hundreds of millions of millimetre accurate measurements to map the development of advanced fortifications around Mont Orgueil Castle
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Spatial Energy, the leading source for digital imagery and services for the energy industry, and IHS, a business information and analytics provider, today announced a subscription agreement to provide online access to Microsoft Corp.’s Bing Maps through IHS products. Bing Maps is a worldwide collection of current content and data types, such as street maps, satellite
Monday, March 28th, 2011
DBx GEOMATICS has just announced the launch of the 3rd generation of its thematic web mapping solution, CartoVista 3. A brand-new tile engine has been added to CartoVista 3 that integrates existing map tile providers, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo Maps. This new feature empowers both content managers and GIS professionals to publish interactive
Monday, March 28th, 2011
A meeting on the issues of space technology extended introduction into the work of the MSU’s Department of Geography was held on March 23 in the special computer class (room 19-19 of the Main building of MSU). Starting in December 2010, and first of all at the Departments of Geography, Geology, Biology and Soil, the
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Siemens AG plans a radical restructuring aimed at better positioning the German engineering giant in the growing market for green infrastructure, especially in the world’s expanding urban areas, according to people familiar with the matter. The reorganization plan, which Chief Executive Peter Löscher is expected to present at the company’s supervisory board meeting Monday, would essentially
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
In this day of social media, traditional face-to-face meetings are few and far between. Needless to say, when they do happen, they are most often fruitful. When our Africa Office Director, Joe Njangiru, walked into the offices of the national mapping agencies of Uganda, he walked out with a set of 1:50,000 topographic maps from
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
The first regional headquarters branches for Moroccan bank, BMCE (Banque Marocaine du Commerce Exterieur) have opened in Rabat and Casablanca, with a further branch in Fez due to complete shortly – they are the first buildings by Foster + Partners to be completed in Africa. The banks’ contemporary interior is wrapped by a traditional, energy
