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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

MapShark Bites Again…

CloverPoint and NEPTUNE CANADA have teamed up to create an emergency response system using the Free Flex MapShark framework. NEPTUNE had a variety of ArcGIS services set up for responding to fishermen calls when gear got stuck. The purpose of the tool was to provide decision support for snagged nets and lines. It is the

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Mayrise Connects Remote Controlled Street Lights in Coventry

Street lights in Coventry, England, are being equipped with new remote monitoring technology connected to a central street lighting management system supplied by Mayrise Systems.  Following a £250 million PFI award to Balfour Beatty by Coventry City Council, the citywide installation of a centralised system will allow the automatic dimming of street lights and signs

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Insights from the International Geospatial Community

Interviews from the 2010 Geospatial Conference in Vienna with Geospatial experts who have attended the conference. Fleming Europe’s Second Annual Geospatial Summit which takes place on the 1-3 June 2011 in Budapest, Hungary will again provide an insight into the latest strategies and technological advances for using geospatial information in society. We have asked some

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Trimble Introduces ThingMagic Mercury6 RFID Reader

Trimble introduced today the ThingMagicMercury6 (M6) 4-port, multiprotocol RFID reader as the latest addition to its RFID product family. The M6 is based on the ThingMagic M6e embedded RFID reader module and operates with the ThingMagic MercuryAPI, providing OEMs, VARs and end users with high-performance RFID and a common programming interface for enterprise RFID solution development.

Tuesday, March 1st, 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.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

ESDIN – How to deliver a European Location Framework

Experts from the ESDIN team, many of them members of the INSPIRE Implementation Rules Drafting teams, will present and demonstrate the results and achievements of the project. The workshop is targeted to Pan-European /cross-border geoinformation users, ESDIN reference group members, other SDI stakeholders and data providersincluding National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs).

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Exprodat ArcGIS Training Develops E&P Careers

Exprodat Consulting’s oil and gas based GIS training courses are now included in the Association for Geographic Information’s (AGI) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme. Exprodat’s ArcGIS training courses are highly regarded by attendees and use petroleum industry workflows, data and best practice to teach E&P professionals how to leverage the power of ESRI’s ArcGIS within their

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Microsoft UltraCamXp Wide Angle Camera and UltraMap Software Win Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry Award

Microsoft Corporation and its subsidiary Vexcel Imaging, GmbH were the winners of the Technology Innovation in Photogrammetry award at the Geospatial World Forum Conference for the company’s UltraCamXp Wide Angle digital aerial camera and for the monolithic stitching capability of its UltraMap workflow software. The honor was received on 18 January 2011 in Hyderabad, India,

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

NAVTEQ Awards Enterprise Reseller Agreement to Tango Management Consulting

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, announced today that it has established a reseller agreement with Tango Management Consulting, LLC (TMC), a full service management consultancy providing technology solutions for retail, commercial and corporate real estate clients. As an authorized

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

PCI Geomatics Derives Ecological Indicators from RADARSAT-2 Imagery

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems, today announced that the company has been awarded a contract valued at over $520,000 (CAD) through the Canadian Space Agency’s Earth Observation Applications Development Program (EOADP). PCI fulfillment of the contract – which is based upon its GeoImaging Accelerator (GXL) product – has two