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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data Research – OSGIS 2011

The OSGIS conference series has a strong international focus and takes a holistic approach in bringing together speakers and delegates from government, academe, industry and open source communities. High profile speakers from all over the world are invited for giving presentations and running hands-on workshops for the conference series. 

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Amey Rolls Out Confirm OnDemand from Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Support Birmingham Highways Service

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, has successfully deployed and mobilised Confirm OnDemand – PBBI’s on-demand asset maintenance and management system – for the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service, a £2.7bn project run by Amey in partnership with Birmingham City Council (BCC).

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Real Corp 2011 – Changes for Sustainability, Lifecycles for Cities and Regions

We expect about 200 highly interesting presentations from all over the world, keynote speeches by Henk OVINK (NL), Bernd STREICH (DE) and TSENG Tse-Fong (TW), input from leading decision makers and experts from the Ruhr-area and North Rhine-Westphalia as well as tours on world heritage site Zollverein. Like always we will try our best to arrange – hopefully with support of the participants – attractive social events and a good mood and creative spirit during the conference.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Pythagoras Releases Google 3D Rendering Macro

Increasingly, when applying for permits, designing housing estates, integrating new development projects, … a 3D representation is demanded, which clearly shows the newly developed situation. We often got the question from our customers to develop a module that generates this 3D model in a simple way. So today, Pythagoras bvba presents, with great pride, the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

New Pythagoras Partner in Qatar- Al Shabeeb Precision Instruments

Pythagoras is a standalone CAD program that focuses on markets concerning surveying, constructing, engineering,… Powerful and user friendly drawing and calculation functions give the user the possibility to treat measurements accurately and to finish drawings swiftly. Thanks to the modular system, the user can compose a software package according his or her needs. Digital terrain models, road design, importing

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

City of Brantford Wins ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the City of Brantford with an Award of Excellence for enhancing enterprise asset management using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology.  Since the 1990s, the City has recorded and managed information on the location and attributes of their municipal infrastructure.  To efficiently manage the large amount of data they have accumulated, the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

SNN Best Practice Days See Record Attendances

Attendee levels for the Aligned Assets sponsored Street Naming and Numbering Best Practice Days have now passed 200. With over 120 local authorities represented, the five events, being held across the country will see almost one third of all Street Naming and Numbering departments in attendance.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Elektro Celje – First Slovenian Electrical Utility to Introduce the ArcFM UT System

Elektro Celje is one of the leading electricity distribution companies in Slovenia, covering roughly 22% of the territory of Slovenia, comprising the regions of the Savinjska, the Koroška and lower Posavska with a total of around 50 municipalities. The distribution network consists from more than 3500 km high and average voltage power lines, 3500 transformer stations,

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Swiss Meteorological Network Upgrades with Precision GNSS Positioning

As part of a major upgrade and renewal of the Swiss Metrological Network of weather stations, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, is employing an Ashtech® ProMark™ 500, smart GNSS receiver, to measure to centimetre-level accuracy the position of each of its more than 1,100 sensors located at 135 stations throughout the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Applanix Launches POS MV V5 for Hydrographic Surveys

Applanix announced today the release of POS MV™ V5  (Position and Orientation System for Marine Vessels), the next generation of its industry leading georeferencing and motion compensation system for hydrographic surveying. The announcement was made at Ocean Business 2011, a leading international hands-on ocean technology and training forum.