Friday, April 1st, 2011
OSCRE (the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate) today announced that they have updated their Memorandum of Understanding with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to reflect OSCRE’s new global focus following last year’s merger between PISCES and OSCRE Americas. OSCRE and the OGC organizations are now putting a new level of emphasis on collaborative standards
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Ambarella, Inc., a leader in low-power, HD video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the A7 IP Camera SoC, bringing high-quality 1080p60 H.264 performance to the video surveillance market. The A7 integrates a high performance image sensor pipeline with up to 500 MHz pixel capture rate with a multi-streaming 1080p60 H.264 encoder and power
Friday, April 1st, 2011
When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by providing its satellite imagery of the devastation in northern Japan to relief agencies, governments and the media.
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Starting today, the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 will once again welcome companies, start-ups, research institutions, universities, and even individuals all over the world to submit their innovative ideas in the field of satellite navigation. The overall winner – the Galileo Master – will be chosen from the winners of more than 20 regions in
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
With maps based on Esri technology, Glendale Valley Municipal Authority is able to quickly locate problems and plan for future renovations, a move that will improve water quality and reduce groundwater infiltration to the sewage system. The company, which serves a growing population of 1,000 customers in the State of Pennsylvania, is taking advantage of Esri’s
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Europa Technologies has launched a hosted mapping service to deliver time and cost savings to benefit government organisations across England and Wales. viaEuropa for PSMA is a new online DaaS (Data as a Service) offering that brings high-quality cartography direct to the desktop, web and mobile devices. The service bridges the gap between raw data and
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
BroadMap announced the availability of BroadMap’s flagship enterprise GIS data platform—MapConnect™ Enterprise—on the MapMart website. MapConnect™ Enterprise is a user-friendly data platform that enables rich map display and superior geocoding functionality right out of the box, or in this case right from MapMart.com.
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Astrium GEO-Information Services has completed a geological interpretation study of the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot for the Oil, Gas and Minerals industry. For the first time, these organisations can have access to an ‘off-the-shelf’ set of integrated data to highlight the hydrocarbon prospectivity
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced a new software release for the Matrox Extio F2208 dual-monitor and Matrox Extio F2408 quad-monitor KVM extenders. The comprehensive package enables a variety of new multi-display configuration opportunities that includes support for two PCIe interface cards, main units and Extio F2408E Expander boxes to drive up to 16 displays—plus keyboard,
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
Almost two hundred GIS specialists were present to hear how the UK based developer and supplier of GIS and web mapping software, has been working with customers to help them make cost savings by sharing their GIS resources. Cadcorp Marketing Manager, Richard Spooner, made a plea for the industry to stop hugging spatial data and spatial
