Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
HP is claiming to be the first vendor with 802.11n Wi-Fi access points that support 450Mbit/s radios, offering 50 per cent greater performance and doubling the number of simultaneous users, according to the firm. Available immediately, HP’s E-Series Multi Service Mobility 460 and 466 access points form part of the company’s Mobile Access Solution, and
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
AidData—a joint initiative of Brigham Young University, the College of William and Mary, and nonprofit organization Development Gateway—captures and interprets development data to support aid activities. Development Loop integrates project data from the World Bank and African Development Bank with success stories, development indicators, and relevant local information on an interactive map. Future enhancements, such as social
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Altus Positioning Systems has been selected to supply 100 APS-3 GNSS survey receivers for the state government of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Josef Attenberger GmbH, Altus’ sales representative in Germany, won the tender from the Baden-Württemberg Geo Information and Land Development office (LGL) in a competitive bid. The APS-3 systems will initially be used as control for
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
CloverPoint and NEPTUNE CANADA have teamed up to create an emergency response system using the Free Flex MapShark framework. NEPTUNE had a variety of ArcGIS services set up for responding to fishermen calls when gear got stuck. The purpose of the tool was to provide decision support for snagged nets and lines. It is the
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Street lights in Coventry, England, are being equipped with new remote monitoring technology connected to a central street lighting management system supplied by Mayrise Systems. Following a £250 million PFI award to Balfour Beatty by Coventry City Council, the citywide installation of a centralised system will allow the automatic dimming of street lights and signs
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Interviews from the 2010 Geospatial Conference in Vienna with Geospatial experts who have attended the conference. Fleming Europe’s Second Annual Geospatial Summit which takes place on the 1-3 June 2011 in Budapest, Hungary will again provide an insight into the latest strategies and technological advances for using geospatial information in society. We have asked some
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Trimble introduced today the ThingMagicMercury6 (M6) 4-port, multiprotocol RFID reader as the latest addition to its RFID product family. The M6 is based on the ThingMagic M6e embedded RFID reader module and operates with the ThingMagic MercuryAPI, providing OEMs, VARs and end users with high-performance RFID and a common programming interface for enterprise RFID solution development.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Increasingly, when applying for permits, designing housing estates, integrating new development projects, … a 3D representation is demanded, which clearly shows the newly developed situation.We often got the question from our customers to develop a module that generates this 3D model in a simple way.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Experts from the ESDIN team, many of them members of the INSPIRE Implementation Rules Drafting teams, will present and demonstrate the results and achievements of the project. The workshop is targeted to Pan-European /cross-border geoinformation users, ESDIN reference group members, other SDI stakeholders and data providersincluding National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs).
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Exprodat Consulting’s oil and gas based GIS training courses are now included in the Association for Geographic Information’s (AGI) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) scheme. Exprodat’s ArcGIS training courses are highly regarded by attendees and use petroleum industry workflows, data and best practice to teach E&P professionals how to leverage the power of ESRI’s ArcGIS within their
