Thursday, November 4th, 2010
NAVTEQ announces their agreement with the FCC to supply nationwide map data in support of broadband availability analysis for U.S. states and territories. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 charges the FCC with developing a national broadband plan so that all Americans have access to broadband capability. Under the National Telecommunications and Information
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Laser mapping technology is being employed to predict avalanches in the Himalayas. The SiteMonitor laser monitoring system, developed by 3D Laser Mapping and first used to monitor gold mines in Africa, is being distributed by M/s Elcome Technologies, Gurgaon in India. Supplied by Elcome the Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) is now using SiteMonitor
Thursday, November 4th, 2010
Telogis is excited to announce today the addition of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) capabilities into its Telogis GeoBase geospatial platform. Incorporating this NAVTEQ data into the platform allows for features such as adaptive/predictive cruise control, lane departure warnings, collision avoidance and speed adaptation technology to be built into routing/navigational applications. Please review the attached release and
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
IMServ, a leading carbon and energy consultancy and part of Invensys Operation Management, has won its biggest ever contract with BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider. IMServ has been working with BT for the last nine years and the contract renewal follows a competitive tender process. The five year contract comprises the collection of data relating
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
IMServ, a leading carbon and energy consultancy and part of Invensys Operation Management, has won its biggest ever contract with BT, the UK’s largest telecoms provider. IMServ has been working with BT for the last nine years and the contract renewal follows a competitive tender process. The five year contract comprises the collection of data relating
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Digital Map Products (DMP), a leading provider of cloud-based spatial technology solutions, announced that the company’s ParcelStream™ web service for nationwide parcel boundary data, is now available through Microsoft’s new Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket. Through DataMarket, developers and information workers can access DMP’s parcel boundaries and parcel interactivity features through simple, cross platform compatible APIs and
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
The main new features of gvSIG 1.10 are Sextante 0.6 (GRASS 6.4 interface included) and NavTable extensions integration, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 compatibility. Another new features of this version are: – gvSIG 1.9 bug fixes – Binaries compilation for JVM 1.6 (with JVM 1.5 compatibility) – Pie and bar chart legend – Relative
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
CG/LA Infrastructure LLC, the world leader in infrastructure project identification, announced last week the release of its annual list of the Top 100 Global Infrastructure Projects and this year’s list includes key infrastructure from Germany. The total estimated value of the identified projects approaches US$550 billion. The Top 100 List is released prior to the 4th
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Following an exclusive agreement between aerial survey specialist Bluesky and Getmapping the original images that make up the Millennium Map will now be available from www.oldaerialphotos.com. Billed at the time as a modern day equivalent of the Domesday Book the Millennium Map was the first commercial countrywide survey and is credited with the popularisation of
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
ESRI Canada today presented the Township of Langley with an Award of Excellence for its outstanding achievement in the application of ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. In 2010, the Township developed and deployed an innovative Mobile Fire Application that is expected to significantly enhance fire protection and rescue operations in the municipality. The application allows
