Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
At URISA’s 2010 Caribbean GIS Conference in Trinidad, MapAction volunteers who participated in the on-the-ground response immediately following the devastating Haiti earthquake last year, spoke about the importance of readily available and accurate data in such a response. (Recall that the National GIS Centre in Haiti was destroyed in the earthquake and data was difficult
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
URISA is now collecting data for it’s 2010-2011 Salary Survey for IT and GIS Professionals. Similar to the salary surveys from 2003 and 2007, the survey will provide current information related to salary and responsibilities by employer type, geographic location, and professional GIS experience. This year’s survey will also provide information on how department sizes
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Augmentra, the maker of the award winning outdoor navigation app ViewRanger GPS has partnered with Cumbria Tourism to publish walking & biking routes in the Lake District on their mobile platform. The deal means that residents & visitors to the Lake District with a smartphone will be able to use the ViewRanger mobile app to
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced its first release of eB Insight, the foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform. First introduced a year ago at the 2010 ARC World Industry Forum, AssetWise provides operations information modeling that increases the return on investment for owner-operators of infrastructure assets.
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The beta release of the highly anticipated Esri File Geodatabase API is now available and will help developers improve the interoperability of applications. The API allows developers to create applications that can interact with a file geodatabase without using ArcObjects so that applications can be run on computers that do not have an ArcObjects license.
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Did you know that over 200,000 years ago you could walk from Britain to France? Or that during the 19th Century Russian Czars would shoot pheasants in Midhurst, West Sussex? Or even that the rich and famous are jetting off to France and beyond in the skies above your head? Read More
Monday, February 7th, 2011
The presentation slides of the Workshop on Methods and Techniques of Use, User and Usability Research in Geoinformation Processing and Dissemination, London, April 13 2010 are available online. The presentation slides of the Third Workshop on Usability of Geographic Information, organized by Ordnance Survey and the Commission (on November 10 2010 in Southampton) areavailable online. The most relevant textbook
Monday, February 7th, 2011
3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company and “Data +”, Russia’s leading provider of technologies and solutions for the creation of geographic information systems (GIS) have announced a partnership agreement. Across Russia and the surrounding countries, “Data +” will offer its clients the 3-GIS Express Solution, an ESRI ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client
Monday, February 7th, 2011
LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #3 at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) 2011 this week. LizardTech LiDAR Compressor software enables you to turn giant point cloud datasets into efficient MrSID files that retain 100 percent of
Monday, February 7th, 2011
Global Geomatics is set to revolutionise the survey market in Africa following the purchase of a StreetMapper mobile laser mapping system. It is the first system of it’s kind to be operational in Africa and will provide Global Geomatics with a competitive advantage with a world-leading rapid surveying capability. Global Geomatics is a multi disciplinary
