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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Universal Address and GPS Enhanced Google Maps for iPhones

NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones – a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GPS enhanced Google Maps for all HTML5 enabled mobile web browsers to provide locating, searching and routing services supported with detail street maps,

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

MaxSea – Ultra Fast Cartographic Engine

MaxSea’s Time Zero software offers a new ultra fast cartographic engine with unparalleled seamlessness and speed of zooming. Nautical charts, 3D data, and aerial photos are combined to provide you with the best maritime information and a realism that has never before been achieved. Read More

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Publication – Assessing Spatial Data Infrastructures

Over the last two decades many countries throughout the world have taken steps to establish national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDls). These actions have sought to provide an infrastructure for accessing and sharing spatial data to reduce the duplication of spatial data collection by both users and producers, and enable better utilization of spatial data and

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

IBGE Launches Collection of Thematic Maps Addressing Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Soils of the Amazon

The IBGE launches a collection of thematic maps addressing Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Soils of the Amazon. With scale representation of the state official (1:1.800.000, that every inch equals the 18 kms) and updated satellite images, fieldwork and data from previous studies, the material was prepared as part of the commitment of IBGE produce information about

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

First Draft of the Basic Geographic Nomenclature of Spain (NGBE) Available

This is a first version of provisionally (pending the publication of the first final version of NGBE v1.0), which have extracted all the place names of Numerical Cartographic Base 1:25.000 (BCN25) and have briefly subjected to purification consisting of partial removal of repeated place names and the total elimination of place names for foreign countries.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

SuperGeo Announces Geoportal LLC A Reseller in Belarus

SuperGeo Technologies is excited to announce its new reseller in Belarus, where Geoportal LLC is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Located in Minsk, Belarus, Geoportal LLC provides field survey PDA, Total Stations, GPS controllers, etc. for local users. Since the customers have strong requirements for full function mobile GIS software at a reasonable price, Geoportal

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Record Reduction in Swedish Emissions

Swedish greenhouse gas emissions are declining substantially. In 2009, emissions fell by over 3.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents,  the largest reduction in any single year to date* . This means that Sweden s total emissions have now dropped by a total of around 17 per cent since 1990, and levels have never been

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Great Yarmouth Coastal System: New Report Available From The Crown Estate

As a direct result of a Crown Estate–Caird Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum, Hannah Evans of the British Geological Survey has produced this report on historic changes in the Great Yarmouth spit and the related coastal system.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Local Authorities Confirm Beneficial Role of Planning Performance Agreements

New research is published outlining use and benefits of Planning Performance Agreements; and new practice note and case studies made available. Over 95 per cent of English local authorities that responded to a national survey support the idea of Planning Performance Agreements. The findings are published today in an evaluation report commissioned by the Department for

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

CompassData Archive Surpasses 15,000 Ground Control Points

The Control Freaks at CompassData recently passed an important milestone. We added our 15,000th GCP to our Online Archive. It is the largest online archive of photo-identifiable Ground Control Points. When you order any of our GCPs, you also receive supporting metadata including site photos, data precision reports and point sketches. There is no other archive like