Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Domestic solar power companies responding to a UK government subsidy cut are turning to an innovative digital map solution for help. From April 2012 Feed-in-tariffs for small-scale household installations made after 12 December 2011 will be halved from 43p per kWh to 21p. As a result, companies have to focus even harder on being efficient
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that a new report from industry analyst Monica Schnitger, of Schnitger Corporation, puts Bentley’s OpenPlant products for plant creation at the forefront of data interoperability. Improved interoperability, says the report, enables owner-operators to achieve faster project completion and more efficient operations. Schnitger cites comments by early adopters of OpenPlant –
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the PDF Maps app for iOS and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Suite, including Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop, is pleased to announce the release of MAPublisher 8.6 for Adobe Illustrator. In addition to a large number of new features and enhancements to existing ones, this release is the first
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Esri’s ArcGIS system has been certified with the VCE VblockInfrastructure Platform, and Esri is now part of the VCE independent software vendor (ISV) program. Vblock platforms bring together best-of-breed technologies from Cisco, EMC, and VMware into a prepackaged, prevalidated converged infrastructure system. Esri’s certification will accelerate the deployment of on-premises private cloud solutions with mapping
Monday, December 12th, 2011
3-GIS, a GIS software solutions company based in Decatur, Alabama and Handheld US, a supplier of rugged PDAs and devices throughout North America have announced an agreement of partnership. 3-GIS’ mobile data management solution Field Express Chameleon, leveraged by Esri’s ArcGIS Server and Handhelds rugged high technology products will be available for use by utility
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
New records have been added to the MEDIN Data Discovery Portal since the last edition of Marine Data News now taking the total number of searchable records to over 2300. Latest additions include those added by the British Oceanographic Data Centre covering a range of physical, chemical and biological oceanography.
Saturday, December 10th, 2011
Two intrepid Geo Professionals from Astun Technology, Managing Director, Mike Saunt and Matt Walker have spent the last month developing the latest Open Source technology the ‘Geotache’. This ground breaking work involves precise manipulation of the facial platform. The result is a highly detailed digital terrain model of the upper lip area, certain to frighten
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
FARO Technologies, Inc. and AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, announced today that they have signed an Interoperability Agreement. Under the terms of this agreement AVEVA and FARO will co-operate closely to provide an efficient integration between FARO’s laser scan hardware technology and AVEVA’s portfolio
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
In February 2011, Germany informed the European Commission of its intention to opt out of the planned common platform for auctioning emission allowances for the third phase of the EU Emissions Trading System starting in 2013. Germany has now published the Tender Specifications for the Transitional Auction Platform. Tender A 381 “Transitional Auction Platform for
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Sylviane Bilgischer (Belgium/ Perú), Roberta Colombano (Italy/Netherlands), and Carolina Quiroz (Mexico) began developing a project to restore and conserve a fragile Mangrove ecosystem in a village in Perú in January. El Bendito is located close to the Tumbes in Perú comprising a portion of the eco-region of mangroves in the Gulf of Guayaquil. This is a
