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Sunday, February 20th, 2011

OpenGeo and Pacific Geodata Announce Partnership to Support Geospatial Users

Pacific Geodata, a GIS mapping and analysis firm located in Yountville, California today announced a reseller agreement with OpenGeo, a global leader in open source geospatial solutions.  Through this partnership, Pacific Geodata will be able to offer the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to its clients.

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Legal Aspects of Augmented Reality Development

A must read if you are building augmented reality applications. What are your legal obligations, what happens if you fail to meet them and who will know? We talk to the Pillsbury Virtual World & Video Game attorneys Sean F. Kane and John L. Nicholson to get the inside scoop on what every developer needs

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Navajo Nation Water Quality Project

Many parts of the Navajo Indian reservation in the south-western U.S. are contaminated with radioactive debris leftover from Cold War uranium mining. There are over one thousand abandoned uranium mines in the reservation. Often water sources like wells and springs are contaminated as a result of this.

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

East Africa Gets Into Gear for Cleaner, Greener Fuel

In a move that is set to improve air quality and reduce vehicle emissions across East Africa, Kenya has officially launched its transition to low-sulphur diesel. Containing only 5% of the amount of sulphur present in Kenya’s previous diesel supply, the cleaner fuel is already available in limited stations and will soon be present in

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

German Federal Ministry Discussed with the Building Code Amendment to Planning Practitioners

On 15 February 2011, welcomed the bdla a panel of experts in the federal office.In a technical discussion of the upcoming stories of the Building Code and building ordinance will be discussed. The head of the Department of Regional Planning, Urban Development, Housing, Public Construction Law in MD’in Affairs Ms Oda Scheibelhuber had offered the planner associations

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Measuring Forestry’s Impact on Water Availability

Undertaken by a team of CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientists for the National Water Commission (NWC) and Forest & Wood Products Australia, the project developed modelling tools to provide greater confidence in estimating the impact of new plantations on catchment stream flow. Australia’s blueprint for water reform – the National Water Initiative (NWI)

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Two Open Communications Posts at EFI’s FLEGT & REDD Unit

The EFI FLEGT and REDD unit executes two Facilities: The EU FLEGT Facility and the EU REDD Facility. The Communications Team Leader will be responsible for leading communication activities for both Facilities supporting the European Commission, EU Member States and partner countries in communicating about FLEGT and REDD, and develops and manages a number of

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Register Now: Complimentary Webinar – CompassCom Software Demo

Join us for a Webinar on March 2. CompassCom Software has the most versatile fleet management solution in the industry! Learn what separates CompassCom Software from the competition! Learn more from our live demo and knowledgeable experts!!  

Friday, February 18th, 2011

New 52°North Metadata Management Project

con terra GmbH, specialist in the development and operation of spatial data infrastructures, and the 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH establish a new 52°North Open Source Project on metadata management, based on con terra`s smartEditor software. Metadata is an essential means for providing access to spatial data and spatial information services. Accordingly,

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Partnership Agreement for Leica SmartNet Greece, Incorporating MetricaNet

On 31th January, a Leica SmartNet Greece partnership agreement between Leica Geosystems and its distribution partner Metrica, has been signed in Athens. Locally the network will maintain the name MetricaNet, as part of Leica SmartNet Europe, due to the long standing marketing of MetricaNet in Greece. The agreement forms a new partnership to establish a