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Monday, May 17th, 2010

Intergraph Chairman and CEO Halsey Wise Named Finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year

Intergraph Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Halsey Wise has been named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2010 Alabama/ Georgia/Tennessee award program. Wise was among 20 outstanding entrepreneurs from the region selected by an independent judging panel made up of past winners as well as business and community leaders.

Friday, May 14th, 2010

NOAA’s Modernized Positioning System Key to Improved Mapping, Emergency and Land Planning

NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey – the official U.S. government source for determining precise latitude, longitude and elevation – is undergoing a modernization effort that takes into account advances in GPS and other technologies. The effort is important to all activities requiring accurate positioning information including levee construction projects, the design of evacuation routes in hurricane-prone

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Bentley Announces Availability of FAA-Compliant Data Model for Bentley Map V8i

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the immediate availability of a Bentley Map V8i data model for airport information modeling that is compliant with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mapping guidelines. The new data model includes a comprehensive database schema, feature

Friday, May 14th, 2010

SierraSoft Introduces Topko CE Version 5.0 for Cadastral and Topographic Survey

SierraSoft has released Topko CE 5.0, software for field data collection that supports all the features and capabilities of the Ashtech ProMark 500 GNSS receiver. In a clear and foolproof way, Topko CE 5.0 manages the complete range of ProMark 500 capabilities, including receiver configuration, all surveying procedures, even the most complicated, such as localizations

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

City of Kamloops Receives ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence

ESRI Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to the City of Kamloops for improving access to municipal geographic data and imagery and enhancing public services using ESRI’s geographic information systems (GIS).  The award, which recognizes organizations and individuals for their outstanding achievements in the application of GIS, was presented at the 2010 ESRI Canada

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

OpenGeoscience Web Mapping Service Serves Free UK Geology Data

The British Geological Survey (BGS) ushers in a new era of geologic mapping services with the launch of its OpenGeoscience Web site, built on ESRI’s ArcGIS technology. The Web site is the world’s first Web map service built on vector data serving attributed geologic data for an entire country. Built on ArcGIS Server, OpenGeoscience enables

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

AIA and USGBC Joint Task Force

Last year, the boards of The American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council established a Joint Task Force to explore how our organizations could work more closely together to advance our respective missions and give stronger voice to our shared values. The desire to use our interdependence as a catalyst for stronger

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

USGBC and GBC Italia Enter into Momentous International Green Building Agreement

May 5, 2010 (Rome, Italy) – It was an historic moment set in a 17th century opera house in Trento, Italy.  What started last fall as an idea during World Green Building Day, culminated with representatives from both the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Green Building Council Italia (GBC Italia) signing a Memorandum of

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Map World Forum 2011 – 1st Call for Papers

Map World Forum is a premier platform for the various stakeholders of geospatial technologies from across the globe to come together to deliberate upon the various dimensions and directions of Geospatial Industry. The forum will offer a unique in-depth learning environment on different aspects of geospatial technology. It will bring together some of the most

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Versatility & Productivity Enhancements for Leica ScanStation C10 Laser Scanning System

Following the successful Q4 2009 release of the revolutionary Leica ScanStation C10 laser scanner, Leica Geosystems announces new system enhancements that provide users with further increased versatility and productivity for as-built and topographic surveys. These are based on new versions of scanner firmware (v1.2) and Cyclone software (v7.0.3) – part of a continuous upgrade program