Monday, February 13th, 2012
The Cabinet yesterday approved three bills that will overhaul and streamline the National Land Management and Administration policies. The National Land Commission Bill 2012, the Land Bill 2012, and the Land Registration Bill 2012 now await publication and onward transmission to Parliament for debate. These are among the seven bills that need to be enacted
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Large portions of the western half of the U.S. do not have access to 3G or faster mobile broadband service, according to a new map released by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The map, released by the FCC Friday, shows large parts of Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Texas and Montana as not having 3G or faster mobile
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Bentley Systems today announced two key initiatives to support the construction phase of Crossrail – Europe’s largest construction project. The initiatives are aimed at integrating the whole Crossrail supply chain to create best practices in information modelling for construction. Moreover, they are in keeping with the U.K.’s Government Construction Strategy, which calls for replacing adversarial
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Ordnance Survey today celebrates an important milestone as the 2000th member joins the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) just nine months after it was launched. Tatenhill Parish Council in East Staffordshire is the latest public sector organisation to sign up for the agreement, which is delivering improved planning and delivery of services through the use of digital
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Contractors have laid the foundation for Grand Cayman’s digital weather radar station. However, the operating date of the early warning radar has been pushed back again, and its debut is now not likely to occur until after this year’s hurricane season. In December, officials said the Doppler radar would arrive in July, coinciding with the
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) and privately-held SmartBin Corporation of Dublin, Ireland announced today that they have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of solutions that can leverage positioning technology, wireless communications, asset monitoring and fleet management capabilities to enhance productivity for professionals operating in the environmental services and recycling markets. Under the agreement, Trimble
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
After an 18 month competitive tendering process, Leica Geosystems Ltd is pleased to announce it has been awarded the contract to supply over two hundred survey grade Leica Viva GS15 GNSS receivers to Ordnance Survey, the National Mapping Agency for Great Britain. The contract also includes the supply of over two hundred Leica DISTO™ D8
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
GeoEye, Inc., a leading source of geospatial information and insight, announced that it has successfully completed the System Critical Design Review, the last of four critical design reviews in its EnhancedView Program. This program includes the development of the GeoEye-2 satellite and an upgraded ground system architecture.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Trimble introduced today a new generation of GNSS devices for GIS field applications—the Trimble® Juno® 3B and 3D handhelds. With the new Trimble Juno series, mobile workforces ranging from public utilities to municipalities are empowered with rugged, integrated GNSS handhelds that are optimized for everyday field work such as asset management, data collection and inspections.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The event MundoGEO#Connect LatinAmerica in 2012, the largest gathering of geotechnology industry in Latin America, held May 29 thru 31 at the Frei Caneca Convention Center in Sao Paulo (SP), is selecting success stories in the area of geospatial information sharing. The selected projects will be part of lectures and debates programming of the event.
