Monday, February 7th, 2011
Did you know that over 200,000 years ago you could walk from Britain to France? Or that during the 19th Century Russian Czars would shoot pheasants in Midhurst, West Sussex? Or even that the rich and famous are jetting off to France and beyond in the skies above your head? Read More
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The presentation slides of the Workshop on Methods and Techniques of Use, User and Usability Research in Geoinformation Processing and Dissemination, London, April 13 2010 are available online. The presentation slides of the Third Workshop on Usability of Geographic Information, organized by Ordnance Survey and the Commission (on November 10 2010 in Southampton) areavailable online. The most relevant textbook
Monday, February 7th, 2011
3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company and “Data +”, Russia’s leading provider of technologies and solutions for the creation of geographic information systems (GIS) have announced a partnership agreement. Across Russia and the surrounding countries, “Data +” will offer its clients the 3-GIS Express Solution, an ESRI ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client
Monday, February 7th, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #3 at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) 2011 this week. LizardTech LiDAR Compressor software enables you to turn giant point cloud datasets into efficient MrSID files that retain 100 percent of
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Global Geomatics is set to revolutionise the survey market in Africa following the purchase of a StreetMapper mobile laser mapping system. It is the first system of it’s kind to be operational in Africa and will provide Global Geomatics with a competitive advantage with a world-leading rapid surveying capability. Global Geomatics is a multi disciplinary
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Now in their third year, the latest dates for the Best Practice Days run by gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets have been announced. In a change to the previous format that saw them based on the use of gazetteers across the public sector, these events have been split between the use of gazetteers in the emergency services
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
As part of their Public Mapping Project, Dr. Michael P. McDonald of George Mason University and Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, have teamed up with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, to develop District Builder (http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software), an open source, web-based redistricting application.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Today, we launched Julia Map on Google Labs, a fractal renderer in HTML 5. Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelbrot studied the set z2 − c and popularized it by generating the first computer visualisation. Generating these images requires heavy computation
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The National Geographical Institute (IGN) and the company recently Archividéo sign a co-publishing agreement major in the 3D world by creating Territoire3D service, service online access to computer 3D SaaS (software as a service) modeling all cities and villages in mainland France and overseas. This service will allow users to move in a world very realistic virtual; the Internet sites that incorporate this model
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
ST-Ericsson is launching the world’s smallest receiver to be able to see both GPS and GLONASS positioning satellites, enabling mobile devices to deliver much faster and much more reliable location-based services. Compared to GPS-only solutions, the combination of GLONASS and GPS technology dramatically improves positioning accuracy in dense “urban canyon environments”, where tall buildings can
