Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
OpenGeo today announced that Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, has agreed to an OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition contract to support its ongoing spatial data infrastructure initiatives. The OS OnDemand service from Ordnance Survey has recently adopted GeoServer as its primary Web Map Service to customers, and the OpenGeo Suite contract will fund core development
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
The central economic importance of the world’s natural assets is now firmly on the political radar as a result of an international assessment showcasing the enormous economic value of forests, freshwater, soils and coral reefs, as well as the social and economic costs of their loss, the head of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the release of its inaugural Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking. This unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure is based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
For its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones, the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, the European augmentation system that
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
CellGuide, the GNSS SNAP technology pioneer announced the availability of its patent-pending HiMap technology for precision urban positioning. HiMap is now being made commercially available for CellGuide’s ACLYS chip, ACLYS IP Core, and GPSense engine. HiMap is also available for licensing as an add-on to GNSS receiver manufacturers. Read More
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
GeoVation, Ordnance Survey’s innovation awards programme, is to receive an additional £150,000 in funding for its current challenge, “How can we improve transport in Britain?” to help winning entrants develop their ideas. The cash injection comes from the Ideas in Transit project funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the Department for Transport and the Engineering
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
RapidEye announced today that GEOSYS has been chosen by Cemagref to provide the complete coverage of the French territory with RapidEye ortho-rectified satellite imagery at 5 m pixel resolution, taken over the period from May to September 2010. The ability to acquire several million square kilometers of images daily with the RapidEye satellite constellation allows
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
1Spatial Holdings plc (“1Spatial”), the AIM quoted provider of products and services that enable clients to collect, audit, manage, modify and reuse geospatial (location based) data, today announced the admission of its share capital to trading on AIM and the first day of dealings in its ordinary shares following the completion of the reverse takeover
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. and materials information technology innovators Granta Design Ltd. have announced a new strategic partnership, combining Autodesk’s Digital Prototyping vision with Granta’s materials information and eco design technology to help enable sustainable product design. Granta and Autodesk are co-developing software that will add new sustainable design capabilities to the Autodesk solution. The companies are
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Guildford-based small satellite company Surrey Satellite Technology has won a £770,000 grant to begin the design phase of a technology demonstration satellite. When TechDemoSat-1 is completed, in 18 months, it will provide cost-effective ways of putting experiments into orbit so they can be developed into commercial ventures. The TechDemoSat-1 will be developed using a grant
