Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
The scenic Aker River (Akerselva) which runs through central Oslo, has been hit by massive pollution which has destroyed all marine life in the river, which was rich on salmon and trout. A week ago it as discovered that 6000 litres of Chlorine had leaked from a burst pipe at the water treatment plant north of
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) in the People’s Republic of China is using ERDAS IMAGINE StereoSAR DEM and IMAGINE SAR Interferometry for a surveying and mapping project in western China. The project is being conducted by five of the provincial branches of the SBSM, and involves surveying 200,000 square kilometers of land
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announced that SuperNetObjects 3, its latest network objects, now support road hierarchy services. Officially released in February 2011, SuperNetObjects 3 contains a wide range of network analysis functions for developers to undertake powerful applications. The operation and the objects this brand-new SuperNetObjects 3 provides greatly surpass its previous version, SuperNetObjects 2.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies today announces a new spinoff company, EMCT, to provide specialized environmental consulting services using GIS technologies. The newly established company, Environmental Management Consultant Technologies Inc. (EMCT), used to be a project team focusing on the consulting services in the fields of environment, public health, agriculture, etc. The main clients are government sectors and private
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The purpose of this announcement is to solicit prospective candidates to apply to the role of facilitator of one of the following thematic areas:– Agricultural and aquacultural facilities– Energy resources– Statistical units and Population distribution – demography The role of a facilitator is to provide technical guidance and assist in the organisation of the data specification activities
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
In a first for a UK local authority, Bristol City Council have awarded Blom UK, and their German partner Sun-Area, the contract to provide a detailed, interactive solar potential map of the entire city. The map will be integrated with their website to allow local property and business owners to find out if their buildings
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
ClueTrust today announces support for information-rich exports from Cartographica to Avenza’s newly-released MAPublisher 8.4 for use with Adobe Illustrator. Cartographica 1.2.2, the Geographic Information System (GIS) for Mac OS X, provides a complete set of tools which enable the user to explore, analyze, and present geospatial data. The solution combines Cartographica’s ease of use for
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The exact geographical position of each of the 51,919 polling booths in the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly elections can soon be viewed on computer screens, just as locations of landmarks can be seen on Google maps — courtesy the Election Commission’s decision to come up with geographic information system (GIS) maps of all the booths. Apart from
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
100 stunning aerial images which form part of an extraordinary outdoor exhibition can now be viewed on a new interactive map created using Ordnance Survey data. In September 2010 Michael Palin, President of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) officially opened the Britain from the Air street gallery in the historic centre of Bath. The outdoor
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
A small Glasgow technology firm has been recruited to play an important part in the drive to help clean up the sprawling metropolis of London. Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) has won a £2.9 million contract to supply the software that it developed to help link wind farms and electric cars with the national grid for use
