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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

GE Smart Grid Technology Could Transform Milton Keynes into World-Class, Low-Carbon City

GE is working with electricity distributor Central Networks on a project proposal to put the city of Milton Keynes at the forefront of the United Kingdom’s transition to smart grid technology and low carbon urban living. The proposal has been submitted to U.K. energy regulator Ofgem in an effort to secure a slice of its

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

John Deere Launches New Precision Technologies

John Deere has launched several new precision ag technologies including a new telematics system, JDLink, GreenStar 3 family of displays, the StarFire 3000 GNSS Receiver, iGrade, that helps producers better manage surface water movement, and iSteer, that improves implement guidance in a grower’s field. “The GreenStar 3 and the new GreenStar 3 2630 display is the

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Esri Releases the Open GeoServices REST Specification

At the FOSS4G Conference in Barcelona, Spain, today, Esri announced the release of the GeoServices REST Specification. This open specification provides a standard way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology. The specification has been opened such that developers can expose the GeoServices API request structure

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Climate and Forecast Data Encoding Standards

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) members are seeking comments on OGC candidate standards Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard, and NetCDF Binary Encoding Extension Standard – NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset Format. NetCDF (network Common Data Form) can be used to communicate and store many kinds of multidimensional data, although it was originally

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

PCI Geomatics to Represent Canada at the Rio Oil and Gas Expo in Brazil

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, is proud to announce its participation in the Canadian Pavilion at the upcoming Rio Oil and Gas Expo taking place September 13-19 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The Rio Oil and Gas Expo is the largest event of its type in Latin America with

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

RapidEye Exhibits With BEO and Santiago & Cintra At INTERGEO 2010

RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that it will exhibit at this year’s INTERGEO, sharing a booth with two of its global distributors, BEO from China, and Santiago & Cintra Consultoria from Brazil. INTERGEO, the world’s largest event and communication platform

Monday, September 6th, 2010

eSpatials iSMART GIS Supports Access to the OS OnDemand services provided by Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

eSpatial today announced that its market leading GIS product, iSMART supports access to the OS OnDemand services provided by Ordnance Survey of Great Britain. OS OnDemand delivers world-class Ordnance Survey mapping over the Web directly to your organisation – when you want it, where you want it, quickly.  This web map service (WMS) offers Ordnance Survey licensed

Monday, September 6th, 2010

WinFrog remains Navigation Software of Choice for OMM

Fugro Pelagos, Inc. has made further software sales to subsea cable specialist Offshore Marine Management’s (OMM) survey services section. The company’s WinFrog integrated navigation software, first released in 1994, remains their flagship product and is the software of choice for OMM who have now invested in four product licenses from the California-based company. For further information

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Introduction – Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SHASM)

Shaanxi Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SHASM), established in 1957, is directly under the leadership of State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China (SBSM). It is one of the largest and most important surveying and mapping production base in China. Moreover, SHASM also performs surveying and mapping administration within Shaanxi Province. It mainly undertakes

Monday, September 6th, 2010

GeoServer 2.1 Beta Released

Just in time for FOSS4G the GeoServer community is pleased to announce the release of 2.1 beta1. The first beta release of the long awaited 2.1 branch is now available for download. Anticipation for this release has been growing over the last few months due to the number of notable new features it brings. Let’s go