Monday, November 29th, 2010
Esri received the top honor in the mapping/geographic information system (GIS) components category of Visual Studio Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards. Esri won the award for its ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The ArcGIS API is designed for developers who want to create Web-based mapping applications quickly and easily with minimal coding. Many governments
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Frequently, geospatial data providers must collaborate with many organizations to collect new data and/or update their existing data holdings. For example, when federal agencies want to synchronize with geodata updates coming from ‘closest-to-source’ publishers such as local or state providers. Another case is when content providers are crowd-sourcing their data updates or supporting volunteer geographic information
Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Interoperability Pilot developed a nation-wide demonstration of standards-based products that make immediate access to current data a reality. The CGDI Pilot showed that municipal, provincial and territorial authorities can update data and automatically make their up-to-date data available online in real time to those who need it, anywhere across
Monday, November 29th, 2010
ESDIN aims to be a bridge between the theory and the practice – from the INSPIRE Directive towards implementation and usage of interoperable geographical data by Spatially-enabled Societies.
Monday, November 29th, 2010
As part of the procedure to realize ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer, both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cartographica is designed for people who need to work with geospatial data to create maps, analyze data, convert between formats, and discover new information about your data and the world in which it exists. As such, we have emphasized easy importation, exploration, analysis, and output in the design of Cartographica and hope that you find
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Bridge enthusiasts are now able to get a preview of the fixed link that might one day connect Germany and Denmark. The conceptual design, which was recently released by Femern A/S, features a cable-stayed bridge that spans 19 kilometres of the Baltic Sea. If commissioned, the bridge will rank among the world’s longest cable-stayed structures with two main spans
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Finmeccanica and Russian Railways (RZD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Rome for industrial programmes in the areas of railway signalling, telecommunications, automation and safety & security. The agreement relates to the supply of technology for 100 stations, 100 vehicles and 50 railway lines by 2020 for a combined value that could be up
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
Senator Edgardo J. Angara said that the establishment of the Disaster Science Management Center (DSMC) should be a national priority in order to better prepare the nation for the dealing with the multiple disasters that hit the country. “We need the DSMC to help us prepare for the typhoons and similar disasters that will continue to
Friday, November 26th, 2010
On November 23, 11 colleagues around the world from GRAPHISOFT, Arktec, DDS-CAD, and Tekla Structures demonstrated the power of Open Collaboration without borders. These professionals in Birmingham, Boston, Budapest, Helsinki, Madrid, Munich, Oslo, and Sydney used the GRAPHISOFT BIM Server to successfully demonstrate how Delta Server™ technology reduces network traffic to a minimum for instant
