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Monday, February 14th, 2011

Toreador Agrees Interim Way Forward with French Government in Paris Basin Tight Rock Oil Program

Toreador Resources Corporation today announced that its subsidiary Toreador Energy France and its partner, Hess Oil France SAS, (“Partners”) along with select other energy industry companies in France, met with France’s Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Energy to discuss the government’s decision to instruct the General Council of Industry, Energy and Technology (CGIET)

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Tekla Gives Professional BIM Application for Everyone in Construction

To make an impact on the construction industry, 3D modeling software provider Tekla is launching a new advanced application for building information model-based project communication and cooperation. Tekla BIMsight is ready for everyone in the industry to download and share over the Internet for free. Now contractors, designers, architects, MEP detailers and fabricators can combine

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Removing the Mist Surrounding the Cloud

The hype surrounding cloud computing is expected to reach unprecedented levels over the next few years. According to recent research by analyst Gartner, CIOs view the cloud as their top technology priority for 2011 and it expects the number of organisations using on-demand computing to rise to 43% within four years.

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

CZECH Network of Permanent Stations for Positioning

CZEPOS provides users of GNSS correction data for accurate determination of position in the Czech Republic. CZEPOS manages and operates the Land Survey Authority as part of the geodetic control in the Czech Republic. If you are visiting the website CZEPOS first time, we recommend you go to page: information on services and products  

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

GI_Forum 2011 – GI Community in Focus

The University of Salzburg Centre for Geoinformatics and the Institute for GIScience at the Austrian Academy of Sciences offer an annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well established co-located regional symposium –  Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) – sharing the state-of-the

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

Tender AGEO Award 2011

The ” AGEO Award “aims to students through recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of geographic information science to promote. The official award ceremony and presentation of the best works made in the context of an event of the Austrian Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information ( AGEO ).

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Protected Planet, UN Online Mapping Application, Built with Open Source Geospatial Technologies

Protected Planet, an interactive mapping website launched in October, provides information and media on protected areas across the world.  Developers from the United Nations Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) built the server-side components of the application, while front-end development and visual design was handled by Vizzuality, a Madrid-based company that specializes in biodiversity informatics. 

Saturday, February 12th, 2011

Normalization Extension for gvSIG 1.10 Available

The normalization extension is now available for gvSIG 1.10. This version is the previous one, but it has been updated to work on gvSIG 1.10, and allows to separate chains of text in different parts and storing them in table fields. These chains of text can have their origin in plain text files or in

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Bing Spatial Data Services API

Bing Spatial Data Services, a next generation spatial search offering added to the Bing API. This new service offers the benefits of cloud hosting and distributed computing, allowing customers to upload their data to Microsoft’s servers and perform spatial queries under the umbrella of their existing Bing Maps License. The blog here provides further information. In addition,

Friday, February 11th, 2011

Luxion Releases KeyShot 2.2

Luxion, the leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology and makers of KeyShot, the first realtime ray tracing and global illumination program, today announced the release of KeyShot 2.2 as a free upgrade to the groundbreaking KeyShot 2 application introduced last summer.