Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
At this year’s BAU 2011 trade fair, which took place from 17th to 22nd January in Munich, the Leica DISTO™ D8 won an award for product innovation presented by Bundesarbeitskreis für Altbauerneuerung e.V. (BAKA), Bauverlag and Messe München. This regular award is made with the aim of promoting the development of forward-looking product ideas and designs
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Cheshire East Council, one of the nine ‘Super Unitaries’ created in 2009, are set to develop an award winning land and property gazetteer using software from Aligned Assets. After a long assessment period, they selected the gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets, called Symphony iManage, to manage their new central Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG).
Monday, February 21st, 2011
MLC CAD Systems, one of the largest SolidWorks resellers in North America, was recognized by SolidWorks Corporation as the company’s Top Reseller in Overall Performance in North America in 2010. The award was announced at SolidWorks World 2011 International User Conference & Exposition in San Antonio, TX.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Visualant, Inc. a pioneer provider of industry-leading color based identification and diagnostic solutions, announced today that its licensee for environmental applications, Javelin LLC, is focusing its initial development efforts on utilizing the Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching (“SPM”) technology to determine the presence of oil in water and the presence of adulterates in oil.
Monday, February 21st, 2011
When a major disaster strikes in remote parts of the world, knowing if the area is populated, and how densely, is crucial for the effective organisation of humanitarian operations. The Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL), developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), will soon provide this detailed information for the first time on
Monday, February 21st, 2011
ProconGPS, Inc. announced today that it has partnered with Bertram Capital, a private equity firm based in San Mateo, CA with more than $850 million of capital under management, to complete a recapitalization of the company and to fund continued growth. ProconGPS’s existing leadership team will remain completely in place and continue to direct the Company’s strategy and manage
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Weymouth and Portland Borough Council has launched its on-line public mapping system based on the Web Map Layers product from Cadcorp. Sharing geographic information with the general public marks the final stage of corporate deployment of GIS in this popular south coast tourist resort. Read More
Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Pacific Geodata, a GIS mapping and analysis firm located in Yountville, California today announced a reseller agreement with OpenGeo, a global leader in open source geospatial solutions. Through this partnership, Pacific Geodata will be able to offer the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to its clients.
Saturday, February 19th, 2011
Many parts of the Navajo Indian reservation in the south-western U.S. are contaminated with radioactive debris leftover from Cold War uranium mining. There are over one thousand abandoned uranium mines in the reservation. Often water sources like wells and springs are contaminated as a result of this.
Friday, February 18th, 2011
con terra GmbH, specialist in the development and operation of spatial data infrastructures, and the 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH establish a new 52°North Open Source Project on metadata management, based on con terra`s smartEditor software. Metadata is an essential means for providing access to spatial data and spatial information services. Accordingly,
