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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Slam Dunk – Water System Saves Big Money with ‘Elements’ GIS

Bountiful Irrigation has recently expanded their GIS-based asset management software to include real-time mobile access and dynamic web-based data forms.   Serving over 12,000 households, Bountiful Irrigation has been using Elements Management Software as their GIS-based work and asset management solution since the product was initially released in 2006.   Until recently, Bountiful has used the

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

SuperGeo Announces Exclusive Partnership with Cody Corporation in Oceania

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announces its new partnership in Oceania, where Cody Corporation will distribute SuperGIS series software exclusively in Australia and New Zealand. Since 1981, Cody Corporation has established a strong distributing network for the Surveying and GIS/GPS market, by reselling rugged handheld computers, total

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

ArcGIS 10 Transforms the Way People Use GIS

ArcGIS 10, which is now available from Esri, is transforming the way people use geographic information system (GIS) technology. With this release, users will be more productive with their work and will be able to take advantage of GIS everywhere: via individual local desktops, across desktops and browsers leveraging central servers, and in the cloud. Learn

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

“Complete Mobility” – Comprehensive Services Link Rail with Other Means of Transportation

The slogan at this year’s InnoTrans is “The future of mobility” and this future is posing great challenges to operators and infrastructure planners. For climate change, growing urbanization, population growth in the emerging markets, and globalization will lead in future to increasing demands mobility and transportation all over the world. With its “Complete Mobility” concept,

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

MetOp-B is ESA Test Centre’s Latest Task

The Payload Module of the giant MetOp-B weather satellite has been lowered into ESA’s largest vacuum chamber. ESTEC Test Centre engineers will be subjecting it to prolonged space conditions – their latest assignment in a busy year. Read More

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

GIS Assesses Impacts of Marcellus Shale Drilling

Today, one of the most diverse meetings ever assembled to address Marcellus Shale gas extraction concerns is being convened by the Center for Healthy Environments and Communities (CHEC) of the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health and the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. The goals of this meeting are to openly discuss the impacts

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Garmin Completes Redomestication to Switzerland

Garmin Ltd. announced the completion today of the change of place of incorporation of the ultimate parent company of the Garmin group from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland (the “Redomestication”). Pursuant to the Redomestication, each outstanding common share of Garmin Ltd., a Cayman Islands company (“Garmin Cayman”), was exchanged for one share of a newly-formed Swiss

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Cisco Collaborates With Living PlanIT to Develop a Sustainable, Intelligent and Connected Community in Portugal

Cisco announced the signing of a strategic Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Living PlanIT, a leading urban technology company that enables intelligent sustainable urban development and operations. The LOI sees the expanded collaboration of two visionary companies with complementary skills, capabilities, technologies, and solutions to create smart, sustainable communities of the future. The strategic collaboration

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

France – Geoportal Maps and Photos on Smartphones

IGN is currently finalizing an offer that will allow any publisher or developer who wishes to incorporate within its own consumer applications for mobile phones smart cards and pictures of the Geoportal (these applications are typically downloaded by consumers through a store online application online). This offer is an operation of data service for private

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

ArchiCAD BIM Server Competition Winners Announced

Student architects are discovering inspiring new ways to perform in teams, even across great distances using the Internet as a virtual design studio. Forty college students from North America recently demonstrated the power of long-distance collaborative design using GRAPHISOFT’s ArchiCAD to co-design fictional projects such as visitor centers for Alcatraz, monuments for Detroit, and facilities