Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Following a change in the Ordnance Survey (OS) licensing agreement that comes into effect today (18 November), partners of OS will now be able to compete on a level playing field for the provision of OS mapping and data. The announcement has been welcomed by mapping and data specialists Landmark Information Group as a positive step
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Clark Labs will be unveiling new tools for REDD+ at the Forest Day 4 event in Cancun that will enable users to measure carbon emissions with the BioCarbon Fund methodology and model the impacts of alternative economic policies with an interface to the OSIRIS modeling tool. These new features will be publicly available within the
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Blom is delighted to announce the appointment of Dave Fox as Managing Director of UK operations. Dave brings considerable experience to Blom and will be instrumental in building upon the foundations Blom has throughout the UK. “We are extremely pleased to have Dave join the management team at Blom. His extensive experience and knowledge will be
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Major L. Clark III, Assistant Chief Counsel for Procurement at the Small Business Administration (SBA), was presented the MAPPS Public Service Award on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at the MAPPS Fall Policy Conference in Orlando, FL. Mr. Clark was recognized for his role in revising the “retainage” regulation. His leadership led to the revision of
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Michael Baker Jr., Inc. has been selected as the Grand Award winner in the 4th Annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition presented November 17 in Kissimmee, FL. Baker’s project, “U.S. Bureau of Census – Accurate Coordinate Datasets Collection”, generated spatial ground control for 1,018 counties/municipalities, spanning 37 different U.S. States and five
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Storm surge is the deadliest hazard associated with hurricanes. Yet, for most people, it is an unfamiliar term. NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami wants to change that, and it has created a new website to help. The new site, a one-stop shop for storm surge data, was designed to arm people with potentially life-saving
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
During the GeoTunis conference (Nov29 – Dec3, 2010) Lorienne, leading developer of cartographic production software and committed to cartographic excellence is pleased to announce a new partnership to leverage and extend the German GeoConsultants Group (3G) offering on its territory. The 3G local presence in North-Africa countries will provide a recognized expertise in the Geo Spatial
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Sales revenue of the State Forest Management Centre (RMK) in the first 9 months of 2010 reached EEK 1.3 billion. During the same period last year, RMK earned EEK 890 million in sales revenue, with growth reaching 46%. RMK’s net profit in the first 9 months of this year was EEK 296 million. That is six times higher compared
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
For the base-DLM (old data model), updated data of the federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brandenburg, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia were included in the distribution. For Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt, this is the last time data update in the old data model. In future, only updated data from these countries in the new AAA
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
We’ve been working hard over the last few years behind the scenes with our partner Telvent, a global IT solutions and business information services provider, to strengthen various next generation smart grid solutions available to utilities. Today we made it official with a press release outlining our collaboration effort. Read More
