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Thursday, February 10th, 2011

SkyTraq Introduces GLONASS/GPS Receiver

The receiver features 29 second cold start TTFF, -159dBm navigation sensitivity, -145dBm cold starting sensitivity, and 250mW power consumption; offering best-in-class performance among GLONASS/GPSreceivers on the market. The S4554GNS-LP is capable of operating in 12 tracking channel GPS-only mode, 12 tracking channel GLONASS-only mode, and 24 tracking channel GLONASS + GPS mode. It is ideal for

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Amendment to Regulation on the Interoperability of Spatial Data

The amendment to the regulation on the interoperability of spatial data sets and services regarding code lists was published on the last OJ issue, OJL 31 of 5/2/2011. Read More

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Broadcom Introduces Its Most Advanced GPS Solutions Featuring GLONASS Satellite Support

Broadcom announces two new system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions with support for GLONASS (the Russian Navigation Satellite System), in addition to GPS, marking the first cost-effective, commercially-available, single die SoC solutions that support both GLONASS and GPS simultaneously.

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

NAVTEQ Announces Real-Time Traffic for United Arab Emirates

NAVTEQ announced the launch of NAVTEQ Traffic™ in the United Arab Emirates, the first traffic launch for NAVTEQ in the Middle East. According to recent NAVTEQ research, traffic information is the most sought after navigation-related feature on GPS navigation devices with 96% of wireless navigation users saying they want the feature and 89% of in-car

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

FIG Working Week 2011 – Bridging the Gap between Cultures

We warmly welcome you to the FIG2011 Working Week which will take place in Marrakech, Morocco. The overall theme of the FIG Working Week 2011 is “Bridging the Gap between Cultures”. As always, the Working Week will gather international professionals and academia members from the fields of land surveying, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, environmental awareness,

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Ordnance Survey Exhibition Opens at Southampton’s Maritime Museum

Ordnance Survey has joined forces with Southampton City Council to celebrate over 160 years of history between the map makers and the city with an exhibition at the Maritime Museum. Ordnance Survey In Southampton: Mapping Great Britain Since 1791 celebrates not only a long association between the national mapping agency and the city of Southampton, but

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Do More Than Scratch the Surface with Exprodat

Exprodat Consulting provides software, consulting services and training courses to exploration and production staff throughout the world’s oil and gas companies. To ensure that their training offerings continue to be the most relevant and offer the best value possible, Exprodat has recently announced the design and release of a new course; Using GIS for Surface Analysis

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Videos of the 6th gvSIG Conference Available

The videos of the report sessions and workshops at the 6th gvSIG Conference , that were held the first week of december 2010, are now available. All the videos are available with English and Spanish audio, excepting the sessions of the small room. They are available to be visualized online. With this publishing, we pretend to bring

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Infotech to Acquire European Aerospace Services Company

Infotech Enterprises Limited announced today that it is in talks to acquire a European aerospace services company for about $20 million. “We are currently in talks with three to four companies with a transaction value of between $10 million and $20 million. We want this acquisition to bring domain expertise and proximity to customer and customer knowledge, and the

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Goff: Foreshore, Seabed Process ‘absolute disgrace’

The Government is being accused of ramming through foreshore and seabed legislation and blocking a parliamentary committee’s access to legal advice. The Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill was reported back today by Parliament’s Maori affairs committee more than two weeks before it is due on February 25. Read More