Friday, February 25th, 2011
A leading map specialist has launched a comprehensive worldwide gazetteer with immeasurable potential for search and reference applications. Multi-award winning Europa Technologies is aiming its Global 360 product at any business that needs to search, reference and geocode locations worldwide. With a range of entries from countries down to localised places of interest, Global 360 can be used
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Dr. Joseph Kerski, education manager for Esri, is the new president of the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE), a nonprofit organization chartered in 1915 to serve geography teachers at all levels of education. Commenting on why geography is important to twenty-first-century education Kerski says, “Geography enables students to understand their world locally to globally,
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the integration of its MrSID® Generation 4 Decode SDK (MG4 DSDK) into GeoCue Corporation’s LP360 for ArcGIS™ and other LP360 software applications. GeoCue Corporation, which is the parent company of QCoherent Software LLC, offers the
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Avineon, Inc. has been awarded 2010’s Geospatial Technology Innovation for 3D Modeling by the Geospatial World Forum. This award recognizes Avineon’s breakthrough efforts in developing 3D tracing software. Avineon was selected for this award by an international panel of geospatial experts out of 173 submissions in various GIS related categories.Bringing the best in the geospatial
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Canada’s minister of National Revenue, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and the Atlantic Gateway says he’s impressed with the work being done by a high-tech firm based in the capital. Fredericton MP Keith Ashfield toured local software giant Caris on Tuesday in what was described as an information exchange visit. “They are a world-class company, and I
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
ERDAS and data partner DigitalGlobe hosted an 11 World Tour event last week at the ERDAS corporate headquarters in Norcross, GA. Users from more than 20 different government, educational, and business entities registered for the event. Mladen Stojic, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, kicked off the ERDAS 2011 product showcase by sharing
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Safe Software, the global leader in spatial data transformation, announced today the kick-off of the FME 2011 World Tour, a customer event series that will be held in 25+ cities worldwide starting this March. Co-hosted with Safe Software’s partners, these one-day free events will offer the opportunity to experience the latest capabilities in FME 2011
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. recently participated in the recording of two television programs designed to educate the Ghanaian public on land administration and procedures for formalizing land rights. The programs also sought to make citizens aware of interventions in the land sector undertaken by the Millennium Development Authority (MIDA) which is funded by the
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
At the beginning of February the European Commission launched a consultation on major improvements to EU research and innovation funding to make participation easier, increase scientific and economic impact and improve value for money. The Commission’s Green Paper also provides the basis for far-reaching simplification of procedures and rules. Stakeholders have until 20 May 2011
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
The beautiful world cultural heritage city of Salzburg is the setting for the Geoinformatics Forum (GI_Forum) symposium to be held from July 5-8, 2011 at the University of Salzburg Austria, organised by the Centre of Geoinformatics in cooperation with the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German University of Technology. A scientifically challenging programme,
