Friday, September 16th, 2011
OpenGeo, the global open source geospatial software company behind the OpenGeo Suite is making a huge impact at this year’s FOSS4G Conference. OpenGeo team members hosted five workshops and over a dozen other tutorials and talks. The conference kicked off with a keynote by Paul Ramsey, Senior Consultant at OpenGeo and PostGIS co-founder. Entitled “Why
Friday, September 16th, 2011
A EuroGeoss Web Seminar on “The Earth’s Environment, Observations and Benefits” is planned for Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 14:00 UTC. The seminar will focus on the benefits of improved Earth observation on decision-making at local and global scales. The event will last one hour, with time for questions at the end. It will be presented by Steffen
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Thvilum started working with g.on aimPort by using it when providing services to their numerous Danish customers. These mostly use AutoCad LT with Thvilum GIS to edit and view their maps of water or heating distribution networks. After editing these maps, the users are now able to upload them directly to aimPort and view their
Friday, September 16th, 2011
GRAPHISOFT VP of Product Development Miklos Szovenyi-Lux and President of CABR-ADI Ma Lidong signed the Memorandum setting out the terms of the strategic partnership. The parties have agreed to cooperate in a concerted effort to promote the application of GRAPHISOFT’s leading BIM software, ArchiCAD, and lead the development of China’s architectural design and construction industry.
Friday, September 16th, 2011
SeaZone is significantly expanding the data available in its products, both in terms of geographical coverage and data features. Data from hydrographic offices, research institutions, private companies and NGOs throughout the world is being incorporated into the SeaZone suite of products. SeaZone sources datasets from definitive data providers, ensuring only official and accurate information is utilised in its products. Read
Friday, September 16th, 2011
HOK has added four new leaders to its global Aviation + Transportation leadership team to support continued international growth. Steven Morris,AIA, ASCE, is the new director of global marketing for HOK’s Aviation + Transportation group. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, he is leading HOK’s efforts to bring its aviation and transportation industry expertise and design
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) will present a report to the Government today on the latest climate change research. The report will be used in support of Sweden s actions on climate change. In the report, SMHI indicates that the effects of climate change are expected to be more serious than previously estimated,
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
TerraGo Technologies, an innovative provider of widely adopted geospatial collaboration software, and GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY), a leading source of geospatial information and insight, have formed a partnership to increase the access and application of digital imagery. This innovative partnership enables GeoEye to offer TerraGo’s GeoPDF® production capabilities in the next version of its EyeQ®
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
A re-modeled home might not always be better than the original. For many of the world’s tropical fauna and flora, home re-landscaping has in fact proven to be quite deleterious. An international collaboration of researchers compiled data from over 100 studies comparing the biodiversity of primary forests (forests subjected to little or no human disturbance) with
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
The Welsh Government is publishing essential flood risk mapping after a hosted solution from Europa Technologies was implemented in less than a week. ‘viaEuropa for PSMA’ is a new Data as a Service (DaaS) offering that includes key Ordnance Survey data sets covered by the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). It gives PSMA signatories access to rendered
