Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Isfahan, Iran’s second city and a global Islamic cultural hub, has set its sights on becoming the Republic’s leading ‘e-municipality’ and a regional e-government leader. The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world’s largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT masterplan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
EDINA, a JISC-funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online Go-Geo! resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data repository. Workshop participants will also be introduced to a range of accessible web sources for spatial data. The workshop is part an effort
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
LEDAS Ltd today announced the release of version 4.0 of LGS 3D, its powerful geometric constraint solver. This is the core technology for parametric design software, allowing users to express their design intent in 3D parts and assemblies through geometric and dimensional constraints. Version 4.0 introduces important new functions that customers will find useful for assembly
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Trimble announced that it has acquired the business of ThingMagic, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. ThingMagic is a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and offers advanced development services to facilitate the integration of RFID into a wide range of applications. The acquisition expands Trimble’s technology portfolio and will enable the company to provide
Monday, October 25th, 2010
GeoCue Corporation, the inventor of LIDARgrammetry, has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property for creating and exploiting a variety of LIDAR data using image processing and conventional photogrammetric techniques. LIDARgrammetry, among other features, provides producers and exploiters of LIDAR data methods of using these data in conventional photogrammetric workflows. These tools are encapsulated in the
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator® and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 3.2 for Adobe Photoshop. Along with support for Adobe CS5 and Mac OS 64-bit, it includes the ability to create and export geospatial PDF documents and terrain shading functionality.
Monday, October 25th, 2010
Asustek Computer and Garmin will not be renewing their dual-branding partnership to sell location-based service (LBS) smartphones when their contract terminates in January 2011, according to reports. In other news, navigation services vendor TomTom is reported to be working with HTC to provide “location-rich” map services. Read More
Monday, October 25th, 2010
StreetMapper GIS, a new version of the mobile laser mapping system with an integrated panoramic camera, has been launched by 3D Laser Mapping and IGI mbH. StreetMapper GIS is easy to mount on any type of vehicle and offers a cost effective solution for collection of street level asset information for use in geographical information
Monday, October 25th, 2010
A new white paper commissioned by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) outlines the importance of integrating geographic information system (GIS) technology into the building life cycle. Available to download for no fee, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Facility Management offers detailed information on using GIS to more efficiently manage facilities. Learn More
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
A ground-breaking ceremony has been held for VietinBank Business Centre, Foster + Partners’ first project in Vietnam. Bringing together the Bank’s headquarters, conference, hotel and leisure facilities, the landmark towers are strategically located between central Hanoi and the airport, demonstrating the emergence of Vietnam as an international financial centre. The 300,000-square-metre mixed-use development comprises two towers,
