Friday, December 3rd, 2010
UC Santa Barbara Professor Michael Goodchild, a global pioneer in geographic information science, is the first scholar appointed to the Jack and Laura Dangermond Professorship in geography. The Dangermonds established the endowed chair with a major philanthropic gift to advance the development of geographic information system technology in an academic environment. They are co-founders of Environmental
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
WhiteStar Corp has named LandWorks as a reseller of the WhiteStar Exploration Cube™ product line. A developer of land asset management software for the oil and gas, pipeline and utility industries, LandWorks will bundle the WhiteStar map products with its popular LandWorks GIS software.
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Esri has released a mobile geographic information system (GIS) API for the new Microsoft Windows Phone platform. The ArcGIS API for Windows Phone can be used to create interactive applications that combine mapping resources, such as maps, locators, and geoprocessing models, with Windows Phone technologies and frameworks, such as the application bar, controls, and location. The
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
AOL Inc. announced Thursday that its subsidiary MapQuest is launching in the Netherlands and Switzerland, built on open technology and OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Rolta India Ltd., a maker of software for companies such as Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., expects to return to a profit growth this year on increased demand for its products from India’s military. Net income may rise 15 percent in the year ending March 31, said Hiranya Ashar, chief financial officer at the Mumbai-based Rolta. The
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Vue 9 Infinite and Vue 9 xStream offer CG professionals the premiere solution for creating exceptionally rich and realistic Digital Nature environments with seamless integration into any production workflow. While Vue Infinite is a standalone application, Vue xStream operates seamlessly inside of 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, Cinema4D and Softimage. Read More
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Aerial mapping specialist Bluesky has signed up to the ESRI (UK) Partners and Alliance Programme as a Data Partner. Bringing together one of the UK’s leading aerial survey and derived data companies with the largest pool of GIS expertise in the UK the partnership between Bluesky and ESRI (UK) will maximise the potential of each
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Visioglobe®, granting NN4D the rights to distribute Visioglobe’s 3D rendering software development kit (SDK), VisioDevKit. The VisioDevKit allows developers globally to easily create or enhance existing applications with
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Next week the directors of geosciences institutes from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico will have met in IBGE to plan, implement and continue the activities of the Executive Work Group of the Permanent Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (CP-IDEA), presided over by Brazil. One of the purposes of the meeting is
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
NovAtel Inc. was presented last Friday with the 2010 Alberta Export Award for Advancing Technologies, an award which recognizes companies who “have effectively harnessed the powers of intellectual property and value-added know-how”. The award was given out as part of the Alberta Export Awards competition, which celebrates excellence and innovative approaches to exporting by Alberta-based
