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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Bentley – NCS Workspace for Civil with US CAD Standard in InRoads and GEOPAK

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the release of its NCS Workspace for Civil. The new workspace enables designers to incorporate the United States National CAD Standard (NCS) in Bentley’s industry-leading InRoads and GEOPAK 3D civil engineering design software.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Trimble Expanded Capabilities for Business Center Software and Access Services

Trimble introduced today version 2.50 of Trimble Business Center software for surveying offices and a new Data Processing Service, a component of the Trimble Access Services. “For many surveyors, Trimble Business Center software is already an indispensable resource,” said Anders Rhodin director of Trimble’s Survey Business. “It allows survey data managers to combine GNSS and

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Industry Leader Joins Esri as New Public Works Manager

David Totman, former asset manager at Colorado Springs Utilities, joins Esri as the new industry solutions manager for public works. Totman replaces Chuck Cmeyla, who is retiring.Employed in a variety of positions using GIS to solve analytic problems during the past 24 years, Totman brings a wealth of private- and public-sector experience to his new

Monday, June 20th, 2011

ESRI Canada Enhances National Emergency Management with Free Web GIS Tools

ESRI Canada today announced increased support for Canada’s emergency management community with the release of the ESRI Flex Tools for MASAS.  Leveraging ESRI’s geographic information system (GIS) technology and the Adobe Flex framework, the tools interface with Canada’s Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS).  The tools and associated code are provided free to emergency management and public

Monday, June 20th, 2011

New GeoNode

GeoNode is an open source Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data. Read More

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

1:500 Mapping – City of St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

1:500 topographic digital mapping for the developed portion of the City of St.John’s. Mapping at the 1:500 scale is currently being undertaken for the Goulds area. To aid city staff and others in maintenance of city infrastructure and carrying out the city programs for St. John’s. Read More

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Infotech Receives Award from Indo-German Chamber of Commerce

Infotech Enterprises received a high honor at the annual meeting of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce on 9 June 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Martin Trostel, President Engineering Services Europe at Infotech, accepted the prize for “Exceptional Contribution to the Development of German-Indian Business Relations” before an audience of over 400 international guests. Read More

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Shared Footprints Award – Bighorn Backcountry Group

A 30-member committee that provides recommendations on sustainable recreation in Alberta’s Bighorn Backcountry is this year’s winner of the Shared Footprint Award. The award recognizes projects that reduce the impact of recreation and industry on the landscape.The Bighorn Backcountry Monitoring Group, Standing Committee, advises the Alberta government on the access management plan to retain the

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Call for Entries: Visualization Challenge

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, invite you to participate in this year’s Challenge. The competition recognizes scientists, engineers, visualization specialists and artists who produce innovative work in visual communication. Winning entries will be published inScience and Science Online, and will be displayed on the

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

GeoAnalytics for the Masses

The core mission of GeoCommons is bringing the power of geography to the masses.  First we focused on making data more accessible, then quality cartographic visualization of data, and today we’ve added geographic analysis of data.  Over Christmas we blogged about the “12 Analytics of Christmas” we’d built for GeoIQ.  We are celebrating Christmas in