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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

CSR’s SiRFatlasV Multifunction Platform Powers PND Product Line

CSR pl announced that Mio Technology Corporation (Mio), a leading maker of mobile GPS devices, has extended its strategic collaboration with CSR, deploying CSR’s SiRFatlasV SoC and TriG RF-based platform to provide the multimedia and navigation capability for its new-generation line of personal navigation devices (PNDs). The new line is the latest member of Mio’s popular line

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

URISA to Present Tools for Developing Good Addresses Webinar

URISA is kicking off the New Year with the second installment of the URISA Connect Addressing series. Scheduled for January 18, 2012 at 1 PM EST/ 10 AM PST the webinar, Tools for Developing Good Addresses, will discuss the various ways to collect, maintain and share good address data across the enterprise. Other topics include

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Scientists Confirm Official Estimate Of Gulf Oil Spill Rate

Scientists working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have determined just how fast gas and oil were leaking into the deep ocean, the surface slick, and into the air during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software Enter Strategic Alliance Agreement

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software, and Pitney Bowes Software, Inc., a global leader in customer data, location intelligence, analytics and communication software and services, today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement. The new agreement will serve as a framework for both companies to

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Avenza’s Popular PDF Maps app Introduces Waypoint Importing and Exporting

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and Geographic Imager geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop, announces its latest social sharing feature to its award-winning PDF Maps app with the introduction of waypoint importing and exporting which allows users who have recorded specific map points of interest the ability to share them

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

UK Police Forces Embrace 3D Laser Scanning Technology with Leica Geosystems Ltd

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce the largest ever order of Leica ScanStation C10’s as UK Police Forces embrace High Definition SurveyingTM (HDS). The scanners will be supplied as part of a £2.7 million investment from the Department of Transport to reduce motorway closures following a collision. Delivery of the instruments, full onsite training and

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Trimble Handhelds Help Latvian Rural Support Service Manage EU Agricultural Program

Headquartered in the capital city of Riga, the Latvian Rural Support Service (RSS) is responsible for implementing European Union (EU) policy in the sectors of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and rural development across the Eastern European  country that is home to more than 2.2 million people. One of the organization’s primary tasks is to oversee the EU’s Single Area Payment

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Iberian Conference on SDIs 2011: Presentations Now Online Available

The presentations of the II Jornadas Ibericas de Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (November 2011)  can now be downloaded at the website:  II JIIDE 2011 

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

A New Vision for Water Management

Launching Defra’s water white paper last month, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman described the urgent need for a new approach to water management: “Making sure we’ve got enough water for everyone is going to be one of the major challenges this country will have to deal with in the years ahead.” Business has a key role to play: we look

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

1st Call – 26th International Cartographic Conference

The 26th International Cartographic Conference will be held in Dresden in August 2013. This conference returns to Germany again, with ICA conferences being held previously in Germany in Frankfurt in 1962 and Cologne in 1993. The International Cartographic Conferences take place every two years. 2013 sees the conference in the “Florence of the North”. It will bring together