Friday, August 26th, 2011
A consultation on the proposal to abolish the Inland Waterways Advisory Council (IWAC) has been launched today by Defra. The Government announced the intention to abolish IWAC in July last year as part of the Arms Length Bodies Review. IWAC was set up in 2007 by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006 to advise
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Obayashi Corporation announced that it has signed an agreement on the joint development of a BIM cloud-computing platform with NEC Corporation and GRAPHISOFT. The goal of the agreement is to provide technology leadership for Obayashi through integrated building information modeling workflows and company-wide BIM-based information sharing.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
High resolution aerial photography is being used to create a new map of Birmingham. Supplied by aerial survey specialist Bluesky the digital imagery will be used to create a royalty free base map to support Interconnect Birmingham a project to raise the profile, image and identity of the city. It is hoped that the interactive
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Trimble’s GIS Data Collection division is pleased to announce two key additions to the North American sales team. In the Northeast region, Bob Lenz will assume the role of Regional Sales Manager. In the Central US and Canada region, Tony Scott has accepted the role of Regional Sales Manager.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Intergraph has established its GeoMedia SDI Pro product as a key supporter of interoperability standards that are essential prerequisites of the UK Location Strategy and the wider European INSPIRE Directive. UK Location, the pan-government initiative to improve the sharing and re-use of public sector location information, recently issued “INSPIRE View Service Resources”, a set of pre-qualification questions
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
You are invited to participate in a first of a kind event, an in-world mixture of conference, workshop and collaboration, to discuss, design, build, operate and evaluate various virtual teaching and learning spaces for the university environment of the twenty first century.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Lessons learned from a study of large transboundary watersheds indicates integrated water resources management is most effective when focused on addressing big- picture issues, according to a report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development produced in partnership with the UNEP-DHI Centre for Water and Environment. The report released at World Water Week in Stockholm reviews
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year’s 32% rise in green energy investments worldwide, according to the latest annual report on renewable energy investment trends issued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Intermap Technologies, a leading provider of location-based information (LBI) solutions created from its uniform, high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface, today announced the appointment of Dr. John C. Curlander to its Board of Directors effective August 10, 2011. Dr. Curlander is internationally recognized for his work in satellite remote sensing and mapping.
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Camptocamp, a leading European open source solutions provider and OpenGeo, a global open source geospatial software company today announced a new partnership. Camptocamp will add the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to its product offerings, and will provide support for the OpenGeo Suite in Western Europe’s trans-alpine region.
