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Saturday, September 10th, 2011

OpenGeo a Gold Sponsor at 2011 FOSS4G Conference

OpenGeo, the organization behind the OpenGeo Suite is supporting the 2011 FOSS4G conference in a major way. This year’s conference features twenty workshops, talks, and tutorials hosted by OpenGeo team members. One highlight will surely be the keynote address by Paul Ramsey, Senior Consultant at OpenGeo and PostGIS co-founder. Additionally, the first meeting of the

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Six National Australian Water Account 2010 Reports Available

These regions are Adelaide, Canberra, Perth, Ord, South East Queensland and Sydney. A quick guide is available to help navigate the information. The remaining two reports – Melbourne and the Murray–Darling Basin – will be released over the next two months. Information presented is similar in style to financial accounting reports and includes the total water resources, the access

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Sacred Stones of the Outback

This Landsat image takes us to the Amadeus Basin in the heart of the Australian outback. Two large rock formations are visible on the lower section of the image. Sacred to the local Aboriginal people, the Anangu, these sandstone ‘bornhardts’ are the main features of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site.The group

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Call for Papers: Global Geospatial Conference 2012

We are delighted to announce that the GSDI World Conference (GSDI 13), 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference, Canadian Geomatics Conference (CGC) 2012 and the 7th 3D GeoInfo Conference will be jointly held as the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 to take place at the Québec City Convention Center from May 14-17, 2012. 

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Envitia is the First Vendor to Support New RTIG Data Standards

Envitia is pleased to announce that its CUTLAS-RTI bus real time information system now supports the RTIG-Inform Digital Air Interface Protocol (DAIP). CUTLAS-RTI is first to market with open standards-based data exchange support. CUTLAS–RTI has a number of open interfaces to enable Bus Operatorsto access strategy-driven functions that can selectively alert on bus operations. This can be used to detect

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

First Galileo Satellite Touches Down in French Guiana

The first Galileo navigation satellite has arrived in Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, ready to begin preparations for launch on 20 October. Packed within its protective, air-conditioned container, the satellite landed at Cayenne Rochambeau Airport aboard an Antonov aircraft at 06:45 local time on Wednesday 7 September, having departed from Thales Alenia Space Italy’s Rome facility,

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Government Willing to Negotiate on Planning Reforms

Government officials are willing to negotiate concessions to planning reforms in order to placate opponents of the introduction of a planned presumption in favour of sustainable development, Building understands. The admission comes as the battle between the government and an increasingly organised group of anti-development and conservation campaigners over the proposed National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Friday, September 9th, 2011

SAP to Acquire 3D Visualization Software Maker Right Hemisphere

 As part of its mission to help customers innovate the way they do business, SAP AG will acquire Right Hemisphere, a leading provider of visual enterprise solutions based in San Ramon, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. The 3-D model-based visualization and communications technologies from Right Hemisphere will enhance SAP software and enable visual navigation and interrogation of an entire product

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union

This monograph contains a selection of scientific papers presented on the conference on Land Quality and Land Use Information in the European Union, hold in Keszthely, Hungary. It covers topics related to various aspects of land quality including: concepts of assessment; evaluation of biomass productivity; bio-indicators of land quality; quality assessment of degraded land; land

Friday, September 9th, 2011

MapInfo Manager Updated, version 1.2

MapInfo Manager is part of the MapInfo suite for Enterprise Location Intelligence.  It is ideal for establishing a Single Point of Truth of spatial assets for spatial data custodians and GIS managers, through fast, efficient, intuitive metadata management. This is the third release of the product by Pitney Bowes Business Insight in a year, as