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Sunday, May 15th, 2011

TomTom Delivers Real Time Traffic Products for U.S. Market to Industry Partners

TomTom extends its portfolio of real time traffic products for the United States market to industry partners. By expanding coverage of these real time traffic products to the U.S., TomTom will enable its industry customers in hardware, wireless, enterprise and government markets deliver solutions based on the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic information. Real

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

FMS’s Sentinel Visualizer Software Assists Videre to Expose Human Rights Violations

FMS, Inc. is pleased to announce that Videre Est Credere, www.videreonline.org, an innovative international non-profit organization is using the Sentinel Visualizer software program in Videre’s efforts to record and publicize human rights abuses. Sentinel Visualizer is a software program that offers a knowledgebase for users to store and analyze information on people, places, and things

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Satellite Images Display Extreme Mississippi River Flooding from Space

Recent Landsat satellite data captured by the USGS and NASA on May 10 shows the major flooding of the Mississippi River around Memphis, Tenn., and along the state borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas as seen from 438 miles above the Earth. The flood crest of 47.87 feet on May 10 is the second highest

Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Has Deployed 3-GIS Network Express

3-GIS, an Alabama based software development and services company, has announced that Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative (TREC) has deployed 3-GIS Network Express, an Esri enabled full edit engineering GIS application, to manage their fiber network. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative (TREC) is migrating from legacy CAD to enterprise GIS using 3-GIS’s geospatial asset manager Network Express. TREC

Friday, May 13th, 2011

World’s First GLONASS-enabled Tablet Unveiled in Russia

After rolling out the world’s first GLONASS-enabled smartphone, Russia is thinking bigger — it’s tablet time. This 7-inch Froyo-powered panel runs on a 800MHz processor, and sports 512MB of RAM, a 3.2 megapixel camera, and support for both GPS and GLONASS navigation. Russian provider Skylink hop. Read more 

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Ordnance Survey Exhibition – Tower of London

The exhibition offers the opportunity to discover the stories and personalities behind the major organisations of state, who took care of Royal business behind the mighty Tower walls, from 1100 to the present day. The Board of Ordnance established a Drawing Office at the Tower of London in 1716, which was used by Ordnance Survey when

Friday, May 13th, 2011

HP Introduces Web-connected, Large format ePrinters for Design

HP today expanded its portfolio of web-connected HP Designjet ePrinters that make large format printing easy and offer instant file access to professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction industries. The new HP Designjet T1300 ePrinter primarily serves large work groups, while the HP Designjet T790 ePrinter is tailored for small, mobile technical design teams. Both devices

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Europa Technologies Announces New Release of Global Data Products

Award winning geo-data service provider Europa Technologies has announced a major update to its comprehensive range of global map products. The 2011.1 release will benefit international clients including insurers and telecom companies who require consistent, definitive global data with extensive support for localisation. Europa Technologies’ renowned portfolio, as used by Google and other popular Internet-based map services,

Friday, May 13th, 2011

ILS to Conduct User Needs Analysis in Trinidad & Tobago

International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. in partnership with GISCAD Limited has been awarded the User Needs Analysis (UNA) to guide the design and implementation of a GIS-based Land Information System (LISTT). The purpose of the project is to determine the needs of the Land Management Division (LMD) and create the conceptual design for the forthcoming LISTT. ILS and

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen Recognized for GIS-Based Economic Gardening System

ESRI Canada today presented Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen (CFOS) with an Award of Excellence for advancing its Economic Gardening initiative with ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology.  Through the use of Esri Business Analyst (Canadian Edition), the nonprofit provides small and medium-size businesses in southwestern British Columbia with market research assistance that supports effective business planning