Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Safe Software announced today that FME, the leading spatial data transformation technology, is enabling European organisations to successfully resolve critical data-preparation and delivery barriers to achieve INSPIRE compliance. With unmatched support for INSPIRE XML and GML, FME is helping stakeholders to solve complex XML-based spatial data transformation challenges and create scalable, spatial-data platforms that deliver
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
The recent furore over the merits of the Auckland CBD rail loop clearly illustrates the difficulties of planning major transport investments in isolation from land use planning and implementation. The CBD Loop has the potential to positively shape Auckland’s future form but it’s viability is dependent on the concurrent development of high quality, high density,
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
The EMODnet-Hydrography portal development started in June 2009 and now provides a range of options for browsing and downloading new Digital Terrain Models (DTM) for a large part of the European seas free of charge. The downloadable tiles are available in a number of formats, including the Fledermaus SD format for 3D viewing. The EMODnet digital bathymetry
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Sharp Corp. plans to design, build and operate solar power stations in Japan that it expects to become a major money spinner in the aftermath of the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. “It is high time that we build many solar power stations in Japan,” President Mikio Katayama told a shareholders meeting
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Quick Terrain Modeler is the world’s premier 3D point cloud and terrain visualization software package. Designed for use with LiDAR, but flexible enough to accommodate other 3D data sources, Quick Terrain Modeler provides an easy to use software experience that allows users to work with significantly more data, render larger models, analyze data faster, and
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Jeremy Singley is not an engineer. In fact, he doesn’t want to be an engineer. However, thanks to software from Dassault Systèmes (DS) SolidWorks Corp., he doesn’t need to be an engineer to produce the ultra-aerodynamic tractor-trailer designs he’s developing with other members of the SolidWorks user community. Read More
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
BlomDESKTOP Viewer is a front-end desktop application that views offline data, in a range of industry formats, and connects seamlessly to online hosted data via either external WMS or Blom’s online BlomURBEX and BlomURBEX3D platforms. The desktop solution is a Windows application that allows the users to integrate layers, measure, visualize and work with the
Friday, June 24th, 2011
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, will expand its TerraGo Mobile software to support Google Android and Apple iOS platforms to accommodate rapidly growing numbers of tablet and smartphone users. TerraGo Mobile enables field personnel to easily access, update and share geospatial information with TerraGo GeoPDF maps and imagery to
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce its participation at the 2011 Maine GIS Annual Meeting and Summer School. Patrick Cunningham, President of Blue Marble, will present a talk on Coordinate System Fundamentals at Sunday River Ski Resort in Bethel, Maine on June 24th 2011. This has become a very popular event, with excellent workshops
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of simulation technology and engineering services, today announced the general availability of HyperWorks On-Demand (HWOD), a high-performance computing (HPC) solution for design innovation in the Cloud. HWOD leverages Altair’s patented licensing system, providing access to HyperWorks and a modern, scalable HPC infrastructure through a secure and efficient Web-based
