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Friday, September 16th, 2011

Thvilum Includes 36 Danish Water and District Heating Suppliers Into Geo-Portal

Thvilum started working with g.on aimPort by using it when providing services to their numerous Danish customers. These mostly use AutoCad LT with Thvilum GIS to edit and view their maps of water or heating distribution networks. After editing these maps, the users are now able to upload them directly to aimPort and view their

Friday, September 16th, 2011

GRAPHISOFT Signs MOU with China Academy of Building Research Architecture Design Institute

GRAPHISOFT VP of Product Development Miklos Szovenyi-Lux and President of CABR-ADI Ma Lidong signed the Memorandum setting out the terms of the strategic partnership.  The parties have agreed to cooperate in a concerted effort to promote the application of GRAPHISOFT’s leading BIM software, ArchiCAD, and lead the development of China’s architectural design and construction industry. 

Friday, September 16th, 2011

SeaZone Expands Data Coverage

SeaZone is significantly expanding the data available in its products, both in terms of geographical coverage and data features. Data from hydrographic offices, research institutions, private companies and NGOs throughout the world is being incorporated into the SeaZone suite of products. SeaZone sources datasets from definitive data providers, ensuring only official and accurate information is utilised in its products. Read

Friday, September 16th, 2011

HOK Expands Global Aviation + Transportation Group

HOK has added four new leaders to its global Aviation + Transportation leadership team to support continued international growth. Steven Morris,AIA, ASCE, is the new director of global marketing for HOK’s Aviation + Transportation group. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, he is leading HOK’s efforts to bring its aviation and transportation industry expertise and design

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) Report On Climate Change

The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) will present a report to the Government today on the latest climate change research. The report will be used in support of Sweden s actions on climate change. In the report, SMHI indicates that the effects of climate change are expected to be more serious than previously estimated,

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

GeoEye and TerraGo Technologies Form Innovation Partnership

TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, and GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, have formed a partnership to increase the access and application of digital imagery. This innovative partnership enables GeoEye to offer TerraGo’s GeoPDF® production capabilities in the next version of its EyeQ®

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Old-Growth Rainforests Vital to Conserve Tropical Biodiversity

A re-modeled home might not always be better than the original. For many of the world’s tropical fauna and flora, home re-landscaping has in fact proven to be quite deleterious. An international collaboration of researchers compiled data from over 100 studies comparing the biodiversity of primary forests (forests subjected to little or no human disturbance) with

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Europa Technologies Helps Welsh Govt Publish Vital Flood Risk Maps

The Welsh Government is publishing essential flood risk mapping after a hosted solution from Europa Technologies was implemented in less than a week. ‘viaEuropa for PSMA’ is a new Data as a Service (DaaS) offering that includes key Ordnance Survey data sets covered by the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). It gives PSMA signatories access to rendered

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Mapumental Journey-time Maps

For weary commuters fed up with the long journey to work, the answer often seems to be to move closer to the workplace. But a new service, Mapumental, shows that it’s often just as quick or even speedier to travel into city centres from the suburbs. Mapumental, a tech start up founded by mySociety, allows househunters to see,

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Yandex to Replenish Its Maps with 10 M sq.km of Satellite Images

“Yandex” purchases high resolution images from ScanEx – the distributor of satellite images – covering 10 million sq.km of the Earth territory. This territory is comparable to almost 2/3 of the acreage of Russia. “Yandex” and “ScanEx” companies signed an agreement on purchasing images, covering almost 10 million square kilometers of the Earth surface, said ScanEx’s partner. All