Thursday, November 10th, 2011
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 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
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
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
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Nearly 124,000 high resolution scans of the more than 200,000 historical USGS topographic maps, some dating as far back as 1884, are now available online. The Historical Topographic Map Collection includes published U.S. maps of all scales and editions, and are offered as a georeferenced digital download or as a scanned print from the USGS
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The Forestry Administration has teamed up with the Cambodian Wildlife Conservation Society and Forest Carbon Asia to develop a large-scale REDD project in eastern Cambodia. The project will eventually cover three million hectares in Cambodia, forestry administration spokesman Thun Sarah told the Post. “This is the best way for Cambodia to preserve all its protected
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The border between Spain and France was defined in the mid-seventeenth century but was not marked off until the mid-nineteenth century. The absence of a path well-defined border was an important element of many local disputes, some of which are particularly virulent. This book, written by Joan Capdevila Subirana, tells the story of how he tried to
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The joint GSDI 13 World Conference, GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference and Canadian Geomatics Conference offers numerous opportunities for oral presentations and refereed and non-refereed publication outlets. The joint conference invites presentations covering the full range of practice, development and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of spatially enabling government, industry and citizens. Consult
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
International partners are looking ahead to Europe’s second polar-orbiting mission dedicated to operational meteorology – MetOp-B is set for launch next May. The Meteorological Operational satellite programme is providing weather data services for monitoring the climate and improving weather forecasts.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The Leica GR25 GNSS Reference Server is more than just a reference receiver. With integrated internal and external device management, multi-user management, high end security, modular and scalable design, the GR25 GNSS Reference Server will grow with users’ needs and keep their GNSS applications and networks fully up to date. The newest member of Leica
