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Saturday, April 16th, 2011

1Spatial Holdings Acquires Lagen Spatial

1Spatial, a holding company focused on improving the quality and access to business critical location-data across the globe, is pleased to announce that on 15th April 2011, it entered into a binding share purchase agreement relating to the acquisition of Lagen Spatial pty Limited (the “Transaction”). Lagen Spatial pty Limted (“Lagen”), based in Sydney, is

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Microsoft Launches Streetside Mapping Service in UK

Microsoft will launch “Streetside”, its own version of Google’s mapping service StreetView, on Bing maps in the second week of May in the UK. A Microsoft spokesman said the company has started collecting 360-degree photos of streets in London. Next month the company will start gathering images form other countries in Europe including Germany, France

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Geomatics 2011 : Call for Exhibitors

This coming October 12th and 13th, Montreal will be hosting the largest geomatics symposium in Quebec, Geomatics 2011. We are very pleased to invite you to feature your products and promote your services during the commercial exhibition, which will be an excellent opportunity to increase your exposure. The commercial exhibition plays a key role throughout

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Esri Signs Strategic Contract with GeoEye

GeoEye, Inc. announced today that Esri has signed a strategic contract to license a large amount of GeoEye’s high-resolution IKONOS archive imagery. Esri, based in Redlands, Calif., will blend this highly accurate imagery with its current imagery data from multiple sensors to produce a global, static cache map layer. This imagery base layer will be

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

PCI Geomatics Congratulates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton on Winning Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal

PCI Geomatics, a world-leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, congratulates Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, a Professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science, on winning this year’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal award. The individual award, widely regarded as Canada’s top award for science and engineering, recognizes continued excellence and influence in research

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

16 Diverse Programs & Events, 100+ Speakers at COM.Geo 2011

COM.Geo 2011 conference includes 16 programs and events, such as keynotes (NASA, U.S. FCC, Microsoft, OGC, etc.), full papers, short papers, tech talks, demo talks, posters, panels, courses, OGC workshop, Microsoft workshop, demo show, reception, cruise, banquet, exhibitions, job fairs, etc. There are more than 100 speakers to present their latest work on innovative geospatial

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

“Mashathon” Announced for the USGS National Map Users Conference

The USGS has heard from many map users and developers that they would like to showcase their efforts and learn more about using The National Map services, viewer and data. To address these desires, the upcoming The National Map Users Conference (TNM UC), has added a “mashathon.” A geospatial mashathon is similar to “map galleries,”

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Registrations Are Now Open for ISDE7

ISDE7 is renowned for attracting the world leaders in digital earth technologies. The dynamic conference program will see over 130 papers and many posters from the world’s leading thinkers on areas of economic and social sustainable development, environmental protection, disaster mitigation, natural resource conservation and improving living standards.

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Geospatial Enters Into Strategic Alliance with Reduct

Geospatial Holdings, Inc. (Geospatial) and Reduct NV (Reduct) have formed a strategic alliance to expedite the deployment of Reduct’s DuctRunner/Smart Probe Pipeline Mapping Technologies and Geospatial’s GeoUnderground™ Web-based GIS Portal into the global marketplace. Highlights of the alliance include :

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Access American Community Survey Data in Esri Business Analyst

Today, Esri released its innovative American Community Survey (ACS) ACS Population Summary and ACSHousing Summary reports, containing data from the 2005–2009 ACS five-year period estimates. Esri added value to the ACS data by offering the data for nonstandard geographies and simplifying use of the ACS margin of error (MOE). The reports are available immediately to guest users and subscribers