Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Budding innovators and entrepreneurs are being asked to contribute ideas that could improve neighbourhoods and communities across Britain, with a £115 000 prize fund available to help develop the best entries. The GeoVation Challenge, run by mapping agency Ordnance Survey, is looking for great geography, technology and design based ideas, which will deliver solutions to a
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Golden Software, Inc., the leading developer of affordable scientific graphics software announces the release of Strater 3, a powerful, user-friendly upgrade to Strater, a well log, borehole and cross section plotting software package for geoscientists. Strater 3 enables users to quickly create professional well logs, cross sections and location maps from interval, depth, and well
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
In order to improve service efficiency, ease staffs’ loading and provide abundant healthy information, Miaoli County Public Health Bureau, Taiwan is trying to share information through the internet system effectively. Besides, with the development of geographic information, the bureau also wants to present information in a different way with new technology to have people and
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Deputy secretary of the US Department of the Interior David J. Hayes and US Department of Agriculture chief information officer Christopher L. Smith will give keynote addresses at the Esri Federal GIS Conference February 22–24 in Washington, DC. This event will bring together over 2,700 federal government professionals who use Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe® Illustrator® and Geographic Imager® geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop®, announces its latest achievement for its award-winning PDF Maps app with the number of Avenza Map Store vendors topping 100. Avenza brings mobile map technology to the forefront of Apple iOS devices and map producers are
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
NAVTEQ announces an agreement with Farmacos Especializados, the leading Mexican firm in the distribution of specialized medicine, to provide map data and content for its location intelligence and business optimization needs.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Thanks to the advancements in geographic information systems (GIS) technologies and mapping applications like ArcGIS, health organizations worldwide are mapping disease and sickness trends in an effort to treat them locally and globally. GIS tools and ArcGIS mapping applications play an important role in developing data-driven solutions that help health organizations visualize, analyze, interpret and
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
A digital tree map layer, created by Bluesky, is helping Carlisle City Council maximise the benefits of urban green spaces. Following the publication earlier this year of ‘The Natural Choice’ a Government White Paper on the natural environment Carlisle City Council is using the Bluesky ProximiTREE data to map existing trees, highlight areas where additional
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
The European Land Information Service (EULIS) is the first and only service to offer direct access to cross-border official land registration information. EULIS is owned by a consortium of ten European land registry organisations, most of which are government departments. The website (www.eulis.eu orwww.eulis.org), launched at the beginning of February, explains the service with new innovative
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
The Hydrographentag 2012 will take place this year from 11 to 13 June – in keeping with tradition – as a joint event held with the DVW. The venue was first elected in Husum, the city of Theodor Storm in the North Sea – and a center of German wind energy industry. The DHyG is specifically for the conference,
