Thursday, January 24th, 2013
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or “the Company”) (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed a contract for US$9.5 million with an undisclosed customer. Under the initial 12-month contract, MDA will provide operational support for the customer’s geospatial data fusion and exploitation projects. The contract includes options to extend
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced that the National Land Survey of Finland has deployed Bentley Geo Web Publisher, together with a Smallworld GIS and open source software, to serve maps free of charge to the citizens of Finland. The National Land Survey has used Bentley Geo
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
At the January meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Redlands, California, Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, was awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) Distinguished Member Award.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
People worried about getting caught in an earthquake will be relieved to know there’s an app for that. The iPhone app, Earthquake Buddy, which was recently featured at an IEEE conference, sends a warning email to those in 5.0 and higher earthquakes to alert them of impending danger. If users fail to respond in a
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Supergeo Technologies partners with Géo.RM to cooperatively promote SuperGIS software and solutions in French-speaking countries, helping users improve work efficiency in decision-making, planning, and operational management by means of GIS technologies.
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Supergeo Technologie announced that SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a and SuperGIS Spatial Statistic Analyst 3.0 are officially launched. SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a assists users from domains in easily displaying, editing, managing, querying and analyzing various spatial data with the plentiful GIS tools and friendly manipulation environment. In addition to improving stability and efficiency of manipulation, SuperGIS Desktop 3.1a adds
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Today Leica Geosystems has launched Virtual Vista, a web based platform which allows farmers to monitor their fleet and field activities in a simple and effective way. Virtual Vista connects directly through the built-in modem of the Leica mojo3D and customers can access the service within a few steps. No extra software has to be
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Esri has released ArcGIS for Aviation, a new solution to support users in the aeronautical information management, air navigation service provider, and airport markets. This solution enables users to create, manage, review, and share aviation data. ArcGIS for Aviation includes ArcGIS for Aviation: Charting and ArcGIS for Aviation: Airports. Together, these products provide a comprehensive
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
Congressman Joe Garcia, a Democrat from Florida’s 26th District, will be the keynote speaker for the MAPPS Winter Conference, to be held January 27-31 at the Trump International Resort in Sunny Isles Beach, FL, MAPPS, the national association for private sector geospatial firms, announced today.
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is seeking comments on the OGC OWS (OGC Web Services) Context Conceptual Model and the associated ATOM Extension document candidate standards.
