Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Microsoft Corporation’s UltraCam L/Lp digital aerial camera was selected winner of the Technology Innovation category in the 4th Annual MAPPS Geospatial Products and Services Excellence Awards competition. The award was presented on GIS Day, 17 November, in Kissimmee, Florida, at the MAPPS Fall Policy Conference. Learn More
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Cadcorp partner, Vicrea Solutions B.V., continues its success in local government with the decision by the municipality of Groningen to deploy Vicrea’s Neuron Property Registration System (BAG), based on Cadcorp web mapping and GIS technology. The solution will be used to comply with the ‘Nederlandse Overheid Referentie Architectuur’ (NORA) – the Dutch Government Reference Architecture.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Applanix Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trimble and developer and manufacturer of advanced products and solutions for mobile mapping and positioning, and ITRES Research Limited, a leader in the commercial airborne remote sensing industry with high-performance hyperspectral and thermal airborne mapping imagers, announced today they have entered into an OEM supply agreement. Under the
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Autodesk University: Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, today announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), has signed a multi-flex, enterprise license agreement for Autodesk products and Autodesk-related services and training. The contract value of the deal is $6 million over a three year period
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Esri received the top honor in the mapping/geographic information system (GIS) components category of Visual Studio Magazine’s Readers Choice Awards. Esri won the award for its ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). The ArcGIS API is designed for developers who want to create Web-based mapping applications quickly and easily with minimal coding. Many governments
Monday, November 29th, 2010
Frequently, geospatial data providers must collaborate with many organizations to collect new data and/or update their existing data holdings. For example, when federal agencies want to synchronize with geodata updates coming from ‘closest-to-source’ publishers such as local or state providers. Another case is when content providers are crowd-sourcing their data updates or supporting volunteer geographic information
Monday, November 29th, 2010
The Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Interoperability Pilot developed a nation-wide demonstration of standards-based products that make immediate access to current data a reality. The CGDI Pilot showed that municipal, provincial and territorial authorities can update data and automatically make their up-to-date data available online in real time to those who need it, anywhere across
Monday, November 29th, 2010
ESDIN aims to be a bridge between the theory and the practice – from the INSPIRE Directive towards implementation and usage of interoperable geographical data by Spatially-enabled Societies.
Monday, November 29th, 2010
As part of the procedure to realize ESA’s series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer, both address key climate and environmental change issues. The selection follows ESA’s Call for Earth Explorer Proposals that was
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cartographica is designed for people who need to work with geospatial data to create maps, analyze data, convert between formats, and discover new information about your data and the world in which it exists. As such, we have emphasized easy importation, exploration, analysis, and output in the design of Cartographica and hope that you find
