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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Ordnance Survey to Showcase New Addressing Products at Industry Conference

The new addressing products from GeoPlace LLP, a joint venture between Ordnance Survey and the Local Government Group, will be showcased for the first time at the annual conference. Delegates will be able to view demonstrations of the new products and find out about the many new features and benefits.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Nokia Car Mode Drives Fusion of Cars with Smartphone Services

Today at the IAA (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung), Nokia announced Nokia Car Mode, a standalone application optimized for the in-car use of Nokia smartphones. Nokia Car Mode features an optimized user interface simplifying the access and use of Nokia Drive (voice-guided car navigation with Nokia Maps), traffic updates, music and voice calls while driving. Nokia Car

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Call for Papers – imagina 2012

Environmental legislative constraints increasingly require architects to turn to environmentally conscious and sustainable designs for buildings. BIM and 3D digital technologies have recently been presented as unrivalled tools that now offer proven productivity gains. To what extent does this technological progress help to make building designs more environmentally conscious? Can 3D help us to reduce

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Announcing the IV International Wildlife Management Congress

In an increasingly globalized and populated world, sustainable management of natural resources has never been more challenging—or more critically important. For those individuals who work every day to manage and conserve wildlife and wild lands, these changes means that international collaboration is hardly optional. That’s why the IV International Wildlife Management Congress (IWMC), to be

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Tekla BIMsight on MyArchiCAD.com

Tekla and GRAPHISOFT’s long-term cooperation continues, as the Tekla BIMsight software application for building information model-based construction project collaboration becomes available on GRAPHISOFT’s MyArchiCAD.com.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Global Mapper v13.00 Now Available

Global Mapper Software LLC is excited to announce the release of GlobalMapper v13.00. Just  downloadthat file and run it to install v13.00. It will install alongside any existing Global Mapper version, so you don’t have to worry about losing what you’re currently working on. Among the numerous significant changes in this release are the following:

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Observations of Climate Change from Indigenous Alaskans

Personal interviews with Alaska Natives in the Yukon River Basin provide unique insights on climate change and its impacts, helping develop adaptation strategies for these local communities. The USGS coordinated interviews with Yup’ik hunters and elders in the villages of St. Mary’s and Pitka’s Point, Alaska, to document their observations of climate change. They expressed

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

Autodesk to Help Drive Data Interoperability in AEC Industries

Autodesk, Inc. announced that the company’s Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) exporter for its Revit products is now accessible as open source code, licensed through a LGPL v. 2.1 licensing agreement. Since 2005, Autodesk Revit products have provided IFC file export, making it possible to export replicas of project models to the standard IFC file format.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

AECOM Awarded $35.5 M Contract for Engineering of Edmonton Light Rail Transit System Expansion

Under the contract, the company will provide preliminary engineering design services for the Southeast LRT line from downtown Edmonton to Mill Woods and the West LRT line from Lewis Estates to downtown Edmonton. The new, low-floor LRT system will include approximately 17 miles of double track with more than half a mile in tunnels and

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

u-blox Selects Spirent Simulator to Evaluate Its GPS + GLONASS Multi-GNSS Receiver

u-blox has selected Spirent’s GSS6700 Multi-GNSS GPS + GLONASS simulator and Spirent’s GSS6400 GPS + GLONASS Record & Playback test system to evaluate performance of its new GNSS receiver components. “u-blox conducts rigorous testing on all new receiver designs,” said Clemens Buergi, Vice President of Software at u-blox. “To make this process as efficient as possible,