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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Cartographica for Mac OS X + MAPublisher 8.4

ClueTrust today announces support for information-rich exports from Cartographica to Avenza’s newly-released MAPublisher 8.4 for use with Adobe Illustrator. Cartographica 1.2.2, the Geographic Information System (GIS) for Mac OS X, provides a complete set of tools which enable the user to explore, analyze, and present geospatial data. The solution combines Cartographica’s ease of use for

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

GIS Mapping to Offer 360-degree View of Polling Booths in Bengal

The exact geographical position of each of the 51,919 polling booths in the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly elections can soon be viewed on computer screens, just as locations of landmarks can be seen on Google maps — courtesy the Election Commission’s decision to come up with geographic information system (GIS) maps of all the booths. Apart from

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Britain from the Air Now Available Online Thanks to OS OpenSpace

100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery in the historic centre of Bath. The outdoor

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Smarter Grid Solutions to Supply London Low-carbon Project

A small Glasgow technology firm has been recruited to play an important part in the drive to help clean up the sprawling metropolis of London. Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) has won a £2.9 million contract to supply the software that it developed to help link wind farms and electric cars with the national grid for use

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Province’s Land-use Legislation Needs An Outside Referee

The Alberta government’s proposed land-use framework is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has become mired in controversy. It seeks to end the free-for-all on Alberta’s landscapes that emerged after the dissolution of regional planning commissions by the Klein government in the mid-1980s. The Alberta Land Stewardship Act and two companion pieces of legislation wisely divides the

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Econolite Canada to Distribute TrafficCast BlueTOAD

TrafficCast International, Inc. today announced that Econolite Canada, Inc. will distribute its BlueTOAD™ line of products, enabling localized sales services and technical support in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. Econolite Canada is an innovator of transportation management solutions and represents a wide range of advanced technology products, including traffic signal controllers, traffic management

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Garmin announces the G1000H for Helicopters

Garmin International Inc., announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data — flight instrumentation, navigation, communication, weather, terrain, traffic, identification, and diagnostics and maintenance computer — and presents it digitally to the pilot on large, high-resolution displays. “The G1000H is a highly flexible

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Europe, the U.S. and Japan Adopt a Common Standard for Data Centres’ Energy Efficiency

The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) measurement standard has been chosen by Government organisations in three continents as the common standard for measuring the energy efficiency of data centres. This will allow data centre operators to measure, calculate, improve and communicate the energy efficiencies of their data centres worldwide. Read More

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Maersk Mega Ships Too Big for US

North American harbours are not effective enough for Maersk to place its new behemoth ships on routes to the continent, according to managing director Eivind Kolding. Kolding’s comments came as the company announced it had ordered ten ships, each with a capacity of 18,000 20-foot containers and a length of 400 metres. Maersk also has the

Monday, March 7th, 2011

United Nations Requires Enhanced Structures for International Environmental Policy

The United Nations Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) ended on Wednesday with a clear commitment to sustainable economics and to a fundamental reform of UNorganisational structures. Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, who gave the keynote speech on UN environmental reform on Wednesday, stressed: “The long overdue restructuring of national economies worldwide towards a green economy will only