Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Aerial photography has been added to Hastings County’s online mapping service, enhancing the existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources. Warden Jo-Anne Albert said the detailed, colour aerial photography is a major improvement to the free service. “With this change our county maps are becoming a powerful source of information resources and a terrific communications tool that
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a global treaty aimed at protecting the biodiversity of the world’s forests, coral reefs, and other threatened ecosystems. The agreement was met with applause and relief after two weeks of heated negotiations, after environment ministers from 193 countries agreed to a landmark deal aimed at ensuring greater protection of nature
Friday, October 29th, 2010
OpenGeo today announced that OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming OSGeo.JP, the regional open source conference series held every year in Tokyo and Osaka. This year’s meetings will be held October 31-November 1, in Tokyo and November 5-6 in Osaka. Ramsey will be delivering addresses on open source economics and
Friday, October 29th, 2010
The MAPPS Political Action Committee (MAPPS PAC) today announced it has contributed $50,000 in support of 45 candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for the November 2 election. The MAPPS PAC is a bi-partisan PAC that supports Republicans and Democrats who have records of demonstrated support for the private geospatial community and
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Inovação, a geographic information company delivering spatial data management solutions through integration, quality improvement and spatial data access services, and OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, today announced a reseller agreement that will bring enhanced sales and support services for the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to Brazil. Learn More
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Over 75 participants joined the 3D modelling for Intelligent Cities during Bentley’s Be Inspired conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday October 20th. Lead with passion by Pat McCrory, 7 time Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, the round table facilitated participants from around the world to share best practices and discuss opportunities around 3D City modelling. Pat
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Rolta today announced that it has acquired the complete portfolio of CommandBridge™ security technologies, including source code, design and software architecture, under an agreement with The Mariner Group, LLC of the United States, with perpetual exclusive rights for world-wide markets, except for non-exclusive rights for North America and certain European countries.
Friday, October 29th, 2010
LMKR, a global provider of geotechnology and information technology services, will showcase the latest geographic information system (GIS) and field planning solutions from GeoGraphix® at the 2010 Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting in Denver, Oct. 17-22, 2010. Conference attendees are invited to join GeoGraphix product experts at Booth 2462 in Hall
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
ESRI Canada has presented J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI) with an Award of Excellence for enhancing forestry operations and management using ESRI’s geographic information systems (GIS). JDI is a family-owned company based in Saint John, New Brunswick that provides diverse products and services from forestry, transportation, shipbuilding, retail and agriculture. They were the first forest products
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
NAVTEQ has extended its relationship with NDrive Navigation Systems. Under the terms of a new global contract, NAVTEQ will supply the European based navigation specialist with maps, worldwide 3D Landmarks and also NAVTEQ Traffic™ services in Europe, North America and South America – the latter delivers comprehensive real-time traffic information aggregated from regional sources plus
