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Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Geomate.jr Expands GPS Geocaching Opportunities for Schools

Apisphere, Inc., the company behind Geomate.jr (www.mygeomate.com), an easy to use GPS-based geocaching device, has teamed with SDG Creations, Ltd. to offer a GPS and geocaching-based curriculum written by a teacher for teachers called Educaching (www.educaching.com).  The object of Educaching is to get teachers and students out of the classroom to experience a fun and

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

FARO and KOREC Sign Agreement

FARO Technologies, Inc. and KOREC, a specialist of surveying applications, have signed an agreement. Under these terms KOREC will supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. FARO is delighted to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with KOREC to supply the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D Laser Scanner, an instrument which uses laser technology to produce

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Faro SCENE WebShare Software V4.9 for Direct 3D Measurements on the Web

FARO  announces the availability of the new version of SCENE WebShare, its powerful tool for easy and safe sharing of scan data over the Internet. Thanks to WebShare scan projects can be published on a web server with only one click. WebShare permits easy access and sharing of laser scans generated with a FARO Focus3D within

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Exchanging Data Between CAD and GIS Systems with FME – Webinar Invitation

Exchanging data between CAD and GIS systems can be difficult and time-consuming. Too often, it requires drawing by hand or an unwieldy process where information is lost during conversion. Fortunately, you don’t need to compromise on time or quality. Join us for a free webinar to discover how to easily exchange data between CAD and GIS

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Vancouver Police Focuses on Intelligence-Led Policing for Proactive Crime Reduction

The Vancouver Police Department maintains peace and order in British Columbia’s largest city, which has over half a million residents and is a popular venue for large events. To support their focus on intelligence-led policing, they deployed ESRI’s enterprise geographic information system (GIS) technology that provides users across their organization with better access to mission-critical data,

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Bentley Announces Commercial Availability of AECOsim Energy Simulator and AECOsim Building Designer

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the immediate commercial availability of its new AECOsim Energy Simulator software and commercial availability in early Q1 2012 of its new AECOsim Building Designer software (currently in Bentley’s early adopter program). AECOsim Compliance Manager for LEED certification was released in May. The AECOsim family of products provides interdisciplinary building design, analysis, and simulation software focused on helping architectural,

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Dotted Eyes Provides Herefordshire with a Web Mapping Solution to Help Reduce Costs

With more and more councils now shifting their costly face to face and phone transactions online, Herefordshire Council announces it has chosen Dotted Eyes’ web mapping solution to enable residents to instantly visualise planning applications in their area, replacing legacy technology.  Residents within Herefordshire will soon be able to use the council’s website to easily pinpoint

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Bentley Announces Release of Innovative Raceway and Cable Management

Bentley Systems, Incorporated launched the first and only comprehensive, integrated software developed specifically to design, model, and deliver both raceway and cable systems, for plant and manufacturing facilities and utility substations. Taking intelligent models from design through construction and into operations, Bentley Raceway and Cable Management V8i uniquely integrates functional design with detailed physical design and includes a wide range

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

English Heritage Milestone in its Thames/Medway Historic Landscape Study

An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage ‘Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project’, designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula’s historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Federal Geographic Data Committee Launches New Geospatial Website

The federal government and its geospatial partners today unveiled www.geoplatform.gov, a prototype Geospatial Platform website providing an initial view of the future of user-friendly, integrated, federal data collections on common geographic maps. This prototype version of the Geospatial Platform combines map-based data and tools with the latest internet technologies to deliver geospatial information in a