Saturday, April 16th, 2011
So far 1,900 exhibitors from 44 countries have booked stands at the world’s largest exhibition for agricultural machinery and equipment, Agritechnica 2011, to be held in Hanover in November. As the organiser DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) reports, this represents an increase in exhibitor figures of about ten per cent by comparison with
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Launched in November last year, Digimap for Schools provides easy, online access to Ordnance Survey’s most detailed digital mapping for the whole of Great Britain. It was awarded Gold Certification for the most innovative new educational resource available to teachers. The service is designed to improve the teaching of geography in schools – reflecting changes in technology
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
You are cordially invited to a workshop on “The Social Inclusion of the Peruvian REDD Process – a multi-level governance issue”, jointly organized by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and the German International Cooperation (GIZ). The workshop will take place on 26th of April, 9.00 am to 1.15 pm, at Hotel Sol
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The INSPIRE Directive foresees the development of Implementing rules for spatial data services and for network services allowing spatial data services to be invoked. The Commission decided to split the development of the implementing rules for the spatial data services in 2 phases:(1) An exploratory phase to refine the framework for the development of the implementing
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
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 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
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
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, 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
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
