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Thursday, April 7th, 2011

2011 Version of Tecplot 360 Released

Tecplot, Inc. has released the 2011 version of Tecplot 360, the company’s software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) visualization. The latest release provides enhanced support for unsteady analysis solutions including new tools for time-dependent solutions, discrete Fourier transform (DFT), updated data loaders, additional animation formats, plus a number of new general analysis tools and usability

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

UN Admits for the First Time Interval Between Kyoto and a New Agreement

The president of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, has taken on Tuesday (6) that there is probably a time interval between the end of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 and the beginning of a new climate deal. “Governments must face the fact that it is increasingly difficult to establish

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

United States Air Force Takes Flight with Autodesk Software

Autodesk, Inc. announced the United States Air Force (USAF), Office of the Civil Engineer, has signed a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with DLT Solutions for access to the Autodesk complete portfolio of software products and Autodesk-related services and training. DLT Solutions is Autodesk’s master U.S. government reseller. The contract value under the BPA against which

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Meet the Finalists of MundoGEO#Connect Award

The first edition of MundoGEO#Connect Award will take place in 2011 and it is an unpublished celebration for the geo-technology sector. Between the months of January and February the geo-technology community helped to choose the five nominees in the following categories: Personality of the Decade, Most Outstanding Teaching and/or Research Institution, Geo-technology company having the

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