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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

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Pan-European Assessment Asks: ‘What do we know about water and green economy?’

Ministers will meet in Astana, Kazakhstan, today to discuss water issues and greening the economy at the seventh ‘Environment for Europe’ Ministerial Conference, running from 21 – 23 September 2011. To support the Conference, the European Environment Agency (EEA) is launching an innovative Assessment of Assessments report, which recommends ways that environmental information and policy

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Cadcorp Reveals New Web Mapping Product at AGI GeoCommunity ’11

East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, 21st September, 2011 – Cadcorp, the UK based developer and supplier of GIS and web mapping software, has unveiled its latest addition to the Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System product family – Web Map Layers. Web Map Layers is an off-the-shelf but extensible web mapping product designed for map

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

LizardTech Announces Esri CIS as Authorized Reseller for Geospatial Imaging Products

LizardTech, a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the agreement it reached with Esri CIS in Russia to become an authorized reseller for its GeoExpress®, Express Server® and LiDAR Compressor™ geospatial imaging products. Esri CIS, headquartered in Moscow, Russia, will sell LizardTech’s software products to companies and organizations in the

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

AVEVA Announce World Summit Agendas

 AVEVA  is pleased to announce the release of the agendas for the global AVEVA World Summits which take place in Copenhagen 17-19 October, Rio De Janeiro 25-27 October and Singapore 8-10 November. The AVEVA World Summits provide a collaborative forum to present and discuss strategic business and technology issues facing the plant and marine industries and attracts managers and decision makers

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Mexico’s Liverpool Chooses ArchiCAD

Liverpool, Mexico’s largest department store chain, has chosen GRAPHISOFT’s award-winning ArchiCAD to implement BIM in expanding its chain of stores across Mexico.  Liverpool embraced BIM as a means to plan, administer and control the processes involved in the construction, expansion, and modification of its stores.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

HP Designjet Printers Receive BERTL and BLI Top Honours

HP today announced that two HP Designjet Printers and HP ePrint & Share) received top honours from Business Equipment Research & Test Laboratories (BERTL) and Buyer’s Laboratory Inc. (BLI), reflecting their overall ease of use, application versatility and output quality.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Latvia – Northern Air Functional Block Contracts

Since Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Norway have signed a declaration of intention to make the North of functional airspace blocks (NEFAB), held this week in Helsinki working group meeting on policy issues and strategic direction treaty. Block of the establishment for the three-tier contracts – air navigation service providers, monitoring and implementation of control, as well