Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
A pilot evaluation area for SeaZone HydroSpatial Version 2.0 is to be launched in April 2011. This is a great opportunity for marine data users to evaluate and help shape the next generation of SeaZone HydroSpatial. Developments will include :
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it has recently completed an extensive imagery campaign over Africa. The campaign, which ran for 25 weeks from September of 2010 until March 1, 2011, produced over 107 Million km² of the continent of Africa which is now available for purchase from the RapidEye Library. h
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
NAVTEQ is supplying NAVTEQ map and location content for Panasonic’s LUMIX DMC-TZ20/ZS10 and DMC-FT3/TS3, the newest member of Panasonic’s acclaimed LUMIX Series of digital cameras. Traditionally, consumers can only organize their photo collection via date/time. With the integration of maps and location content in an increasing number of imaging devices, consumers can now geographically organize
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
-Veolia Water and Orange are joining forces in the smart metering sector and are launching m2o city, an operator specialized in remote environmental data and water meter reading services. Building on the expertise of Veolia Water – which already operates over 200,000 water meters – and Orange’s expertise as a telco, the m2o cityjoint-venture offers
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
