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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

‘Are You On The Map?’ Launches

The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust announced the launch of  ’Are you on the map?’, a campaign designed to offer organizations and individuals involved in Bermuda’s creative and cultural industries a no-cost marketing and cross-promotion opportunity. The Bermuda Cultural Map Trust is a Bermuda-registered charity whose vision is to provide a platform for Bermuda’s creative and cultural

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Rolta, Qatar’s Ashghal Implement Unique System For Capital Project Management

Rolta India Ltd. said the company in partnership with Qatar’s public works authority Ashghal had successfully implemented a unique, geocentric system for capital project request management called ‘Moazanah’. The implementation of this project reinforced Rolta’s strong track record in providing domain expertise and sophisticated technology solutions to lead and manage innovative large projects. Read More

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

INTERGEO Trend and Media Forum Boasts a High-Quality Programme

At the third Trend and Media Forum, taking place during INTERGEO in Nuremberg, the geo industry will be looking ahead to what the future holds in store. The packed programme at Hall 6, Stand A10 includes more than thirty presentations and will also see the winners of the GIS Best Practice Award and the Geo

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Borough of Saint-Laurent Develops Award-Winning Urban Planning System

Saint-Laurent is a highly industrialized borough in the City of Montreal and the second-largest employment hub in the city, after downtown Montreal.  To support its strategic development plan, Saint-Laurent developed GeoUSOL, an urban planning system that leverages ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology.  The innovative system provides planners with advanced mapping and geographic analysis capabilities that

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

1Spatial and University of Nottingham Collaborate on OpenStreetMap Data Quality Project

1Spatial is delighted to announce the company’s participation in a new, collaborative project OpenStreetMap Great Britain (OSM-GB), in partnership with the Centre for Geospatial Science at the University of Nottingham, to create a quality enhanced and topologically structured version of OpenStreetMap covering Great Britain. OSM is a free and open worldwide map created by a

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

INTERGEO 2011: Trend and Media Forum Boasts a High-quality Programme

 At the third Trend and Media Forum, taking place during INTERGEO in Nuremberg, the geo industry will be looking ahead to what the future holds in store. The packed programme at Hall 6, Stand A10 includes more than thirty presentations and will also see the winners of the GIS Best Practice Award and the Geo

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

US Topo Product Standard

This document defines a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) digital topographic map. This map series, named “US Topo,” is modeled on what is referred to as the standard USGS 7.5-minute (1:24,000-scale) topographic map series that was created during the period from 1947 to approximately 1992. The US Topo map product has the same extent, scale, and

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Ghanaian Engineer Wins Top Award

A 31-year-old Ghanaian geodetic engineer, Richard Appiah Otoo, has won the African Geospatial Excellence Award for Utilities Management. Mr. Appiah Otoo, Geographic Information on Systems Manager (GIS) at Ghana Water Company Ltd. , (GWCL) received the prestigious award at a ceremony during the 6th Africa Geospatial Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 6th, 2011. Read

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Dotted Eyes Pushes the Boundaries of Web Mapping

A radically different web mapping solution which simplifies and improves data management and security, whilst allowing users to self-serve data, has been launched by Dotted Eyes. RMX4 was developed in response to a challenge from Dotted Eyes’ existing customers. Ben Allan, MD of Dotted Eyes, explains, “Too often, the richness of the front-end is the sole

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

GIS Cloud Starts HTML5 Mapping Revolution

We enable organizations and individuals to easily manage and access geospatial data. Data is securely hosted on our cloud or behind your firewall and available through a range of geo tools and APIs. Read More