Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that its protest of the California Department of General Services’ (DGS) procurement process for roadway design software (RDS) has been denied. The software was being solicited on behalf of the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and the protest
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has voted to adopt the OGC GeoAPI 3.0 Interface Standard as an official OGC standard. The GeoAPI standard provides a set of Java® language interfaces based on the ISO 19100 series of geospatial abstract models for metadata and feature geometry as well as two OGC Abstract Specifications for metadata
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The City of Sacramento, California, is opening its redistricting process to the public with the help of a free online tool built on Esri technology. Now through May 16, the City of Sacramento Redistricting Online application enables anyone to develop new district boundaries for consideration by the city’s redistricting citizen advisory committee, which will make
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Sentec has been recognised with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. This is the second year in a row that the company has been honoured with a Queen’s Award. The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation, which recognises continual innovation and commercialisation, was awarded to Sentec for its Sterling technology. The Sterling technology is
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Esri UK, the country’s leading provider of geographic information systems (GIS) technology, has announced the completion of a framework agreement with the Isle of Man Government (IoMG) for the future provision of GIS software and services across all its government departments.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
SimActive Inc. is pleased to announce that the Geomatics Centre of Quebec (CGQ) has completed a major mapping project using Correlator3D. The project was done in collaboration with the Nippour Group, whose responsibilities included extensive quality assurance.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Clark Labs and UNIGIS International are pleased to jointly announce their continued partnership to provide students with access to GIS technology. UNIGIS is the leading worldwide network of universities offering postgraduate Geographic Information Science and Technology education via open and distance learning. Dedicated to promoting the skills of GIS professionals, UNIGIS and its partner institutions offer
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Construction has commenced on Foster + Partners first project in Hangzhou, China, with a sustainable, landmark headquarters tower for CITIC Bank. The 100-metre-high skyscraper’s bold diagonally-braced structure will establish an iconic presence for the Bank in a prominent location on a main axis through Hangzhou Qian Jiang New City, a new central business district being
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) announced today that they have selected Dr. Carolyn J. Merry as the 2012 Coalition Chair. Dr. Merry is the Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science Department at The Ohio State University (OSU) and has been an active ASPRS member since 1975. She will serve as
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Esri has signed an agreement with NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data to provide worldwide map data on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Data Appliance. This is useful for organizations that depend on up-to-date, high-quality basemap data for routing and other location-finding tasks. ArcGIS Online provides a common platform to find, share,
