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Thursday, March 31st, 2011

‘viaEuropa for PSMA’ Service to Benefit Public Sector Map Users

Europa Technologies has launched a hosted mapping service to deliver time and cost savings to benefit government organisations across England and Wales. viaEuropa for PSMA is a new online DaaS (Data as a Service) offering that brings high-quality cartography direct to the desktop, web and mobile devices. The service bridges the gap between raw data and

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

BroadMap GIS Data for the Enterprise Market Now Available from MapMart

BroadMap announced the availability of BroadMap’s flagship enterprise GIS data platform—MapConnect™ Enterprise—on the MapMart website. MapConnect™ Enterprise is a user-friendly data platform that enables rich map display and superior geocoding functionality right out of the box, or in this case right from MapMart.com.

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

First Consistent Geological Interpretation Study CoveringEast Africa Rift System

Astrium GEO-Information Services has completed a geological interpretation study of the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot for the Oil, Gas and Minerals industry. For the first time, these organisations can have access to an ‘off-the-shelf’ set of integrated data to highlight the hydrocarbon prospectivity

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Combine Multiple Matrox Extio Units to Drive Up to 16 Remote Displays from a Single PC

Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced a new software release for the Matrox Extio F2208 dual-monitor and Matrox Extio F2408 quad-monitor KVM extenders. The comprehensive package enables a variety of new multi-display configuration opportunities that includes support for two PCIe interface cards, main units and Extio F2408E Expander boxes to drive up to 16 displays—plus keyboard,

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Cadcorp Opens the GeoDATA 2011 Road Show at the Emirates Stadium, London

Almost two hundred GIS specialists were present to hear how the UK based developer and supplier of GIS and web mapping software, has been working with customers to help them make cost savings by sharing their GIS resources. Cadcorp Marketing Manager, Richard Spooner, made a plea for the industry to stop hugging spatial data and spatial

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

1Spatial “Mapping on Demand” for German State Mapping Agency

1Spatial, provider of intelligent data quality and integration solutions, is delighted to announce that the Federal State Mapping organisation in Baden-Württemberg, Germany have purchased 1Spatial’s flagship Radius Studio solution. Baden-Württemberg will be using Radius Studio in their TFIS (Special Tourist Map) production workflow. The rules-based technology, at the heart of Radius Studio, will enable previously

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

From Bangkok to Durban : Time to Act on Cancun Deal

The first round of UN climate change negotiations since the Cancun summit in December, being held in Bangkok from April 3-8, will start on the work plan agreed at Cancun for 2011. The aim of the meeting is to build on the Cancun agreements and to work towards establishing a new global climate change regime,

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Ramani Signs Distribution Agreement With RapidEye

RapidEye announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Ramani Geosystems located in Kenya. The contract allows Ramani to distribute RapidEye products throughout the entire continent of Africa except Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara. Learn More

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Registration Opens for The National Map Users Conference and GIS Workshop

Registration is now open for The National Map Users Conference (TNM UC) and GIS Workshop. The GIS workshop will be May 10-11 and TNM UC will be May 12-13, 2011 in Denver, Colo. For complete information, registration, hotel and other details, please visit the website.

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Nine New Geothermal Areas Ready To Be Developed

The Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced nine potential geothermal areas as geothermal working areas. This is done to increase the geothermal contribution to the national energy mix. This statement is announced by the Director of the Directorate of Geothermal Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation from the ministry, Sugiharto Harso Prayitno in a