Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Trimble introduced today a new version of its Trimble® Field Inspector solution for utility infrastructure and smart grid asset maintenance and inspection. The solution is comprised of the Trimble Field Inspector software for handheld computers and Trimble Field Inspector Desktop software. Scalable and easy to deploy, the solution leverages Trimble Global Positioning System (GPS) and
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Esri and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) announce the formation of a strategic alliance to strengthen national geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) capabilities. The agreement was signed in June by U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Robert B. Murrett, NGA director, and Jack Dangermond, Esri president. The alliance will provide a framework to advance the strategic goals and objectives
Monday, July 12th, 2010
3-GIS, a GIS product development and services company, has announced the creation of a BlackBerry smartphoneapplication that allows users to collect and modify data in a disconnected environment. 3-GIS will preview and demonstrate this new product, a hybrid of the 3-GIS Buzz application, at the ESRI International User Conference inSan Diego, California from July 12-16,
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Esri has released a new, no-cost add-on for ArcGIS 10 that allows ArcGIS users to contribute data, using the editing capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop, to OpenStreetMap. Volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as that available from OpenStreetMap, is playing an increasingly significant role in emergency response during crises like the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
ArcGIS Desktop users can now easily and quickly add demographic reports and data for the United States to their geographic information system (GIS) projects with Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) Reports Add-In. With it, users can create reports for their map layers and attach demographic data as attributes of those map layers for use in their
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Esri offers a new, easier way to deploy ArcGIS Server called ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure, a preconfigured deployment of ArcGIS Server in a cloud environment. Users can license ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure for 1, 3, or 12 months and renew their licenses indefinitely without incurring added costs or paying maintenance fees. There’s no need
Friday, July 9th, 2010
TerraGo Technologies will demonstrate its latest software for creating and interacting with TerraGo GeoPDF® maps and imagery, including 3D GeoPDF assets, in booth 2825 at the ESRI 2010 International User Conference in San Diego, Ca., from July 13-15. At the conference, TerraGo will host the GeoPDF Users Special Interest Group Meeting at 2 p.m. on
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Geosparc, the company commercially supporting the open source GIS application framework Geomajas, today unveiled a new suite of commercial licenses as part of an expanded strategy targeted at providing the Geomajas technology to companies that want to build commercial applications with it or that want to buy a license to use the technology for internal
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Zhangjiagang is a small city of one million inhabitants, which is not much by Chinese standards. But this particular city, 80 kilometres northwest of Shanghai, may prove essential for COWI’s future activities in China. COWI China has just signed a three-month contract with the Mayor of Zhangjiagang to develop a concept that focuses on sustainability
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The gvSIG workshop that was held at OSGIS 2010 (Nottingham – United Kingdom) in June, is available in the gvSIG website. It contains a course about gvSIG Desktop , and another one about gvSIG Mobile . The gvSIG Desktop course was made on a Live-DVD, that is also available to download. We would like to
