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
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
3TIER released wind performance maps for the third quarter of 2010 covering both Europe and North America. It is the first such map 3TIER has produced for Europe after strong interest in the analysis in North America. The maps reveal that much of North America experienced higher than average wind speeds during the quarter. Meanwhile virtually
Thursday, October 28th, 2010
The Rural Regeneration Centre at Hadlow College in Kent is a showcase of low carbon and renewable technology. One of the top threeagricultural colleges in the UK, the Rural Regeneration Centre will use just 10% of the typical energy consumption of a modern building and is the first such buildingin the UK to be constructed
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
The European Space Agency has signed a fourth contract, out of a total of six, for the setting up of Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite program, the European Commission announced on Tuesday. The contract, valued at some 194 million euros (about 267 million U.S. dollars), was signed by the European Space Agency on behalf of
