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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) Launches 3D Developer Toolkit from Visioglobe

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world, today announced a co-marketing agreement with Visioglobe®, granting NN4D the rights to distribute Visioglobe’s 3D rendering software development kit (SDK), VisioDevKit. The VisioDevKit allows developers globally to easily create or enhance existing applications with

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

IBGE Hosts the Meeting of the Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas

Next week the directors of geosciences institutes from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico will have met in IBGE to plan, implement and continue the activities of the Executive Work Group of the Permanent Committee on Geospatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas (CP-IDEA), presided over by Brazil. One of the purposes of the meeting is

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Norway and ICIMOD to measure impacts of climate change on snow and ice in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas

The Norwegian Ambassador HE Mr. Thor Gislesen and the Director General of ICIMOD Dr Andreas Schild signed 30 November an agreement relating to cooperation between Norway and ICIMOD on the impact of climate change on the melting of snow and ice in the Himalayas.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

New UK Website Promotes Sustainable Living

A recently launched website aims to provide useful information to readers interested in self-sufficiency and sustainable living. The site, www.SustainableLiving.co.uk, advocates a “step-by-step” approach to sustainability and presents information intended to be accessible for people who have limited time and resources to devote to their environmental concerns. Read More

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Global Coverage for OGC OpenLS Directory Service (spatial POI search) based on OpenStreetMap available at OpenRouteService.org

OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to the rich and fast growing data of OpenStreetMap now more than 10 Million objects of a broad set

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

NovAtel Wins 2010 Alberta Export Award

NovAtel Inc. was presented last Friday with the 2010 Alberta Export Award for Advancing Technologies, an award which recognizes companies who “have effectively harnessed the powers of intellectual property and value-added know-how”.  The award was given out as part of the Alberta Export Awards competition, which celebrates excellence and innovative approaches to exporting by Alberta-based

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Hemisphere GPS and CLAAS Agrosystems Introduce eDriveX™ in Europe

Hemisphere GPS and CLAAS Agrosystems launched eDriveX in Europe under the CLAAS brand, GPS Pilot. CLAAS Agrosystems, a company belonging to the global CLAAS Group agricultural equipment manufacturer, is offering GPS Pilot as a part of their precision automated steering solution that also includes the Outback S3™ guidance terminal and BaseLineX™ GPS base station.  The new system,

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Trimble Launches New Version of ConstructJob Project Management Solution Providing Integration with QuickPen AutoBid Mechanical Estimating Application

Trimble introduced Trimble® ConstructJob, an updated version of the Accubid Web-based project management solution for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) trades. In addition to supporting Accubid mechanical and electrical estimating applications, the new Trimble ConstructJob now supports integration with the QuickPen AutoBid® Mechanical estimating application.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Veripos Launches New Mobile Unit

Veripos has extended hardware support options for its range of services providing metre to decimetre-level accuracies with introduction of a new integrated mobile unit utilising proprietary algorithms, the LD5. The ruggedised unit is available in a variety of configurations, from a basic L-band demodulator to a fully integrated mobile positioning sensor with demodulator and multi-frequency GNSS receiver. It

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Mio Introduces GPS Driving Recorder

Mio Technology, a division under the Mitac Group, introduced its first driving recorders with global positioning system (GPS) and shock sensor functionalities built in and priced at NT$6,888 (US$226). Mio is the first of the portable navigation device (PND) “big three” – which also includes Garmin and TomTom – to launch such a product. Read More