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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

URISA/NENA Addressing Conference Accepting Abstracts for One More Week

The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2011 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference has been extended one week to April 11. The conference—for GIS professionals, addressing coordinators, 9-1-1 and emergency response specialists —will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 15-18, 2011. The conference is developed through abstracts submitted through a Call for Presentations. The Conference Committee,

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Tarrant Appraisal District, Texas Chooses to Upgrade with Manatron’s State-of-the-Art CAMA Software

Manatron, Inc., a leader in providing integrated property tax and land administration software for governments worldwide, today announced that Texas’s Tarrant Appraisal District (AD) has contracted with Manatron to implement its GRM computer-aided mass appraisal (CAMA) software to serve as its newly integrated assessment system.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Crowd Gathers in Ukraine to Experience ERDAS 2011 Software

ERDAS announces that the recent ERDAS Day in Kyiv, Ukraine was a phenomenal success. ERDAS, Hewlett-Packard and satellite data vendor TVIS-INFO co-sponsored the event, which attracted 200 remote sensing and image processing specialists from the Ukraine, making it the largest ERDAS event in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Navcom – SF3040 Starfire RTK GNSS Pole-mount Receiver

NavCom Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Company announced the release of the SF-3040 pole-mount receiver that features StarFire/RTK GNSS capabilities. The new product provides RTK-level accuracy up to 40km away from the base station or decimeter-level accuracy anywhere in the world through the StarFire service. The SF-3040, with NavCom’s Ultra RTK™ and

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Skanska Invests EUR 29M – New Green Office Project in Łódź, Poland

Skanska invests EUR 29 M in the office project Green Horizon in Łódź in Poland. In a first phase Skanska will build 19 000 square meters. This can later be extended to 33 000.  The first lease on 11 500 square meters has already been signed. Green Horizon is Skanska Property Poland’s first office investment in Łódź. The total

Monday, April 4th, 2011

The Road to a Living Countryside

Land Survey invites you to an evening on the theme – The road to rural livelihoods, in collaboration with the County Board, Transport Board, Forest Service, National Association of private roads and Saffle municipality. Read More

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Italy’s Project SEE GeoForm Pursues WebGIS

“The project SEE-GeoForms” Site Effects Evaluation – Geological Form “was created with the objective of creating a simple, yet extremely powerful and comprehensive management of geological, geomorphological, geotechnical and geophysical surveys on the entire Italian territory.” The website can be accessed at a webGIS fact that, to date, presents data on the seismic hazard of Italy. WebGIS

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Agencies Blast FCC Over LightSquared Decision

Top officials at the Defense and Transportation departments sharply criticized the Federal Communications Commission for giving the go-ahead for a new hybrid cellular and satellite network that could interfere with Global Positioning System navigation and timing elements. FCC failed to consider sufficient input from federal stakeholders, they said. In addition, Deere and Co., which manufactures farm and

Monday, April 4th, 2011

World’s First GLONASS-enabled Smartphone Ships in Russia

The planet’s first GLONASS phone is now available, but it surely looks like you’ll want to soar over to Russia so that it will use it. For sure, in the event you’ve followed the GLONASS story in any respect you wouldn’t find that shocking in the slightest degree, and in case you favor to pick

Friday, April 1st, 2011

OS OpenData is One Year Old Today

Since the launch, the service has helped underpin a range of applications, helped promote government transparency and encouraged greater take up of geographic information. Among the uses is the Windsor and Maidenhead Council DataTap website, which last week won the MediaGuardian Innovation Award for best use of data. The site, built by Arcus Global, uses Ordnance