Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The first deployment of Ushahidi in Russia – the “Help Map” project (Russian-fires.ru) that worked as a mutual aid coordination platform during unprecedented wildfires last summer – received the most prestigious award of the Russian Internet. The “Runet Award 2010” (Premia Runeta) was granted to “Help Map” as the best project in a category “State
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) has recently begun a three-year project that will integrate Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology into its digital airport management system. The project will combine GIS and airport management to enhance many aspects of the airport’s operations, such as data, asset, and workflow management. It will also benefit the airport significantly
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Alongside industry-leading GIS consulting and training services for the oil and gas sector, Exprodat provides a range of GIS-based software designed specifically for use in petroleum exploration and production (E&P) departments. One of these is the popular Team-GIS KBridge.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that Somerset County Council has gone live with the UK’s most advanced highways management system, based on Confirm®, PBBI’s market-leading infrastructure asset maintenance and management system.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Forty-nine Ashtech® MobileMapper® 6 GPS/GIS field terminals have been purchased by two key Republic of Kosovo agencies, the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) and the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA), to map property boundaries to help resolve private property claims. While the KPA is specialized in solving property and juridical conflicts, the KCA on the other hand
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced the release of Bentley Pipe Renewal Planner, a new decision support tool that provides water utility owner-operators with a quantifiable and reproducible best practice for optimizing the replacement and rehabilitation of distribution network pipes. Pipe Renewal Planner ranks the worst-performing pipes in the network, helping owner-operators more effectively prioritize network upgrades.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Smartphone application developers appear to be exceptionally interested in the new Windows® Phone 7, according to recent media reports. Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft Press announces a new slate of books and ebooks for Windows Phone 7. Tapping the expertise of Microsoft engineers and software designers, as well as top industry consultants and trainers,
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
We’re sharing some of our PointCloud CAD features with MicroSurvey CAD 2010 – creating an Ultimate edition. A delicious solution for surveyors needing point cloud capabilities. Why should you pay for features that you don’t use? With MicroSurvey CAD 2010 you’re able to choose from four software packages: Basic, Standard, Premium and our all-new Ultimate edition. A solution
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
From January 2011, satellite imagery and geo-information specialists Spot Image and Infoterra, subsidiaries of Astrium Services, will combine forces to form its new GEO-Information business division. The GEO-Information division will offer a one-stop-shop portfolio of multisource, multi-resolution optical and radar satellite imagery under the Astrium brand. “Astrium Services is focused on becoming the world leader
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Pointools has unveiled a Plug-in for Google SketchUp in time for the European LiDAR Mapping Forum, Autodesk University and SPAR Europe. The new Pointools Plug-in for SketchUp streamlines scan-to-model workflows for all SketchUp and SketchUp Pro users by enabling reuse of the largest point cloud models, and by providing a first-of-a-kind solution to create 3D
