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Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Council of Governments Looks for Database Partners

With the state grant rapidly running out on its Geographic Information System program, the Northeastern Connecticut Council of Governments is looking to a possible interstate cooperative to keep it going for a low cost.The program, known as GIS, has been funded by an $860,000 state grant the council received in 2008. The program has created

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

eielAC Geographic Information System

eielAC is the geographic information system created and used by the technical staff of the Provincial Council of A Coruña (Spain). It includes a database of geographic information related to local administration, a spatial data infrastructure node (ideAC), a desktop application to visualize and edit the information in the database (gisEIEL, which is a separate

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Round Table on Topic “Spatial Data Infrastructure”

Round table on the topic of “Spatial data infrastructure of federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina” had been held in hotel Sarajevo on June 21st, 2011, in Sarajevo, organized by the Federal administration for surveying and property rights with the Federal Ministry for spatial planning. Participation in this round table was also taken by the Republic Geodetic

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

Orbit GT – New Release of Asset Inventory Management Solution

Many Public Domain objects need to be inventorized. Inventories need to be maintained. Some maintenance programs are steered by law, others remain at the initiative of the local authority or other owner. With the inventory, a series of documents, photographs and other elements are relevent to execute the task of maintenance of the public domain.

Sunday, June 26th, 2011

GI2011 Proceedings Available for Download

The final proceedings of the earlier held GI2011 Conference are now available for download.  The GI2011 final version of the proceedings have been reviewed.  Read More

Saturday, June 25th, 2011

FME’s XML and GML Capabilities Help Bring Success to INSPIRE Initiatives

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

Quality Urban Revitalisation Key To Auckland CBD Rail Loop Business Case

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

New Portal with Digital Bathymetry for European Seas

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 to Build Solar Power Stations in Japan

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

New Quick Terrain Modeler 7.1.4

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