Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
URISA, the Association for GIS Professionals, is offering two URISA Certified Workshops at its Headquarters in Des Plaines, IL.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
SuperGeo Technologies announced that Bayanat purchased SuperGIS Desktop 3 to support spatial data analysis, cartography and efficient map production; consequently, promoting the services of social development, construction, and national defense in UAE. Founded in 1974, Bayanat was born from UAE Armed Forces Military Survey Department (MSD) and is owned by Mubadala Company. The company primarily aims
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
SuperGeo announces that the latest desktop GIS software—SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 is officially launched worldwide. SuperGIS Desktop 3.1 apply the whole new SuperGIS Engine 3 as the development core and provides more abundant GIS tools so that users in various fields can effectively display, edit, manage, query, analyze spatial data with SuperGIS Desktop 3.1.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations, along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. This is also an investigation
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The ocean is becoming an increasingly crowded place. New users, such as the wind industry, compete with existing users and interests for space and resources. With the federal mandate for comprehensive ocean planning made explicit in the National Ocean Policy, the need for the transparent evaluation of potential tradeoffs is now greater than ever. A study
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Submissions are currently being sought from young New Zealand designers, architects and engineers for two travel scholarships aimed at supporting the design and reconstruction of quake-ravaged Christchurch. The British Council Christchurch Scholarships, in partnership with Massey University, were launched late last year as a way of supporting Christchurch’s redesign and positively transform the living and working
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
When poor nations become richer, their appetite for natural resources grows. Sustainability experts say policymakers meeting in Rio de Janiero this year need to think about just how much growth Earth can support. Almost a billion people around the world are starving, while another billion suffer health problems linked to overeating. Farming subsidies in rich countries
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Steve Riley, technical leader, office of the chief technology officer (CTO) at Riverbed Technology, will provide the Keynote Address at this year’s Esri Developer Summit. Riley’s keynote, entitled In the Cloud, Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong, will seek to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the cloud and give a fresh perspective on geospatial
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Europe has been making the news for the wrong reasons recently. Today I want to rewrite the headlines. While clearly we have difficulties, we are taking the right decisions to ensure an economic road to recovery. Europe is most definitely open for business. As the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, I am responsible for
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Global geoinformation technologies and first of all Earth remote sensing from space, satellite-based navigation and Internet geoportals have certainly considerably changed and keep on changing our lives. A certain turnaround in the minds of people deserves mentioning: in the new world of open data it is easier to feel comfort and to actually become not
