Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
At URISA’s 2010 Caribbean GIS Conference in Trinidad, MapAction volunteers who participated in the on-the-ground response immediately following the devastating Haiti earthquake last year, spoke about the importance of readily available and accurate data in such a response. (Recall that the National GIS Centre in Haiti was destroyed in the earthquake and data was difficult
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
URISA is now collecting data for it’s 2010-2011 Salary Survey for IT and GIS Professionals. Similar to the salary surveys from 2003 and 2007, the survey will provide current information related to salary and responsibilities by employer type, geographic location, and professional GIS experience. This year’s survey will also provide information on how department sizes
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Augmentra, the maker of the award winning outdoor navigation app ViewRanger GPS has partnered with Cumbria Tourism to publish walking & biking routes in the Lake District on their mobile platform. The deal means that residents & visitors to the Lake District with a smartphone will be able to use the ViewRanger mobile app to
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced its first release of eB Insight, the foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform. First introduced a year ago at the 2010 ARC World Industry Forum, AssetWise provides operations information modeling that increases the return on investment for owner-operators of infrastructure assets.
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The beta release of the highly anticipated Esri File Geodatabase API is now available and will help developers improve the interoperability of applications. The API allows developers to create applications that can interact with a file geodatabase without using ArcObjects so that applications can be run on computers that do not have an ArcObjects license.
Monday, February 7th, 2011
3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company and “Data +”, Russia’s leading provider of technologies and solutions for the creation of geographic information systems (GIS) have announced a partnership agreement. Across Russia and the surrounding countries, “Data +” will offer its clients the 3-GIS Express Solution, an ESRI ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Global Geomatics is set to revolutionise the survey market in Africa following the purchase of a StreetMapper mobile laser mapping system. It is the first system of it’s kind to be operational in Africa and will provide Global Geomatics with a competitive advantage with a world-leading rapid surveying capability. Global Geomatics is a multi disciplinary
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Now in their third year, the latest dates for the Best Practice Days run by gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets have been announced. In a change to the previous format that saw them based on the use of gazetteers across the public sector, these events have been split between the use of gazetteers in the emergency services
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
As part of their Public Mapping Project, Dr. Michael P. McDonald of George Mason University and Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, have teamed up with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, to develop District Builder (http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software), an open source, web-based redistricting application.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The National Geographical Institute (IGN) and the company recently Archividéo sign a co-publishing agreement major in the 3D world by creating Territoire3D service, service online access to computer 3D SaaS (software as a service) modeling all cities and villages in mainland France and overseas. This service will allow users to move in a world very realistic virtual; the Internet sites that incorporate this model
