Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced today that its flagship fleet, logistics and transportation product, NAVTEQ Transport, is now available to support the trucking industry in Argentina, Brazil and Chile. With coverage connecting Brazil and Chile through Buenos Aires
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced today at the ESRI Latin America User Group Conference that development of navigation and location-based solutions in the region recognized a boost with the release of two new NAVTEQ® maps and four new
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Cambridge engineering design and information management solutions company AVEVA has acquired the software division of laser scanning firm Z+F UK. The move follows a long and successful partnership between the two companies – and allows AVEVA to expand its offering in the 3D data capture market. “There is no let-up in the need to extend the life
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Location solutions company Ubisense has bought a geospatial consultancy firm – based in the same building in Cambridge – for £2.4 million. It has acquired Realworld OO Systems – the UK subsidiary of Realworld Holding – which shares its St Andrew’s House premises in St Andrew’s Road. The cash consideration consists of £1.25 million on completion and
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Do wind farms drive down the prices of nearby homes? That question is at the heart of a potentially precedent-setting two-day property value review, which began Tuesday in eastern Ontario. The complainants, Ed and Gail Kenney, a couple from Wolfe Island, near Kingston, Ont., are asking the province’s Assessment Review Board to lower their property tax assessment
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, chaired by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, today released for public review and feedback its comprehensive preliminary strategy for long term ecosystem restoration. The strategy, which will be presented to President Obama at the end of the public review period, represents an historic opportunity for
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
KISTERS presented its final results of the Surface Water Interoperability Experiments #1 and #3 to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Boulder, CO this past week. The end result of this work was KiWIS (KISTERS Web Interoperability Solution), the first commercially available and robust service module on the market. Used in combination with WISKI or
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies today announced that its latest fully functional mobile GIS software, SuperPad 3.0a, is officially launched to global market. SuperPad 3 consists of comprehensive and complete GIS functions, which integrates mapping, GIS, and GPS functions with hand-held devices and assists field surveyors in collecting, editing, and measuring spatial data in an easy and effective way.
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Westernport Water, a utility in the state of Victoria, Australia, is using Bentley’s WaterGEMS water distribution modeling software, integrated with Open Spatial’s geographic information system (GIS) and Control Microsystems’ supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA), to cost-effectively operate and manage more than $43 million in water assets. The SCADA system
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Google Earth has been downloaded more than one billion times since it was first introduced in 2005. That’s more than one billion downloads of the Google Earth desktop client, mobile apps and the Google Earth plug-in—all enabling you to to explore the world in seconds, from Earth to Mars to the ocean floor. Read More
