Thursday, January 26th, 2012
OnYourMap and Blom announce their partnership and the release of a common high performance mapping platform, integrating the innovative OnYourMap technology and the renowned high resolution oblique and satellite imagery from Blom. OnYourMap, a leading Location Based (LBS) and mapping service provider, and Blom, the European service provider within acquisition, processing and modeling of geographic information, announced today
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The first Galileo satellites are already in orbit, with more on the way. Today ESA’s Director General and the UK’s Universities and Science Minister attended the grand opening of the facility where navigation payloads for the next batch of Galileo satellites are being built. UK company Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) in Guildford, Surrey, is assembling
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
URISA is pleased to announce its Sixth Caribbean GIS Conference taking place November 12-16, 2012 in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The conference theme is “Spatial Technologies – Critical Thinking for Critical Times”. The Conference Program is developed through a Call for Presentations. Abstract submissions are reviewed and discussed by a group of volunteer committee members representing
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
URISA is pleased to announce that 25 GISCorps volunteers have recently been deployed to 9 new missions in 7 countries.
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a new tool that provides the public with important information about pollutants that are released into local waterways. Developed under President Obama’s transparency initiative, the Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) Pollutant Loading Tool brings together millions of records and allows for easy searching and mapping of
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
GIS professionals thinking about taking their careers to the next level and starting their own business need to join Lee Mitchell, owner of G.A.I.A. Professionals, a successful GIS technology firm and Dr. Devon Cancilla, dean, business and technology at American Sentinel University for a free webinar ‘Starting a Geospatial Business’ on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
URISA and the International Association of Assessing Officers (IAAO) are pleased to announce three workshop opportunities at the 16th Annual GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference taking place in San Antonio, Texas March 12-15, 2012. These full-day courses will be presented on Monday, March 12, offering a rare educational opportunity.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
We are pleased to announce the 1st Workshop on 3D Web Visualization of Geographic Data, which will be held on April 24, 2012 in Avignon, France, in conjunction with AGILE 2012 International Conference on Geographic Information Science. The main focus is the visualisation of 3D geospatial data on the web. The new challenges and opportunities are comparable to the
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
As an esteemed aerial measurement services industry leader, Aerialogics has announced a newly signed contract giving the company exclusive rights to access one of the largest geographic imagery databases in Europe. The large-scale provider, BlomASA, is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with business operations spanning across 13 different countries.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
The EU plans sweeping changes to its dated data rotection law, including the “right to be forgotten” and 24-hour breach notification. The changes could have far-reaching implications for the Net industry. Tougher rules on data protection are coming to the European Union with far-reaching implications for Web giants like Google and Facebook. On Wednesday, the
