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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Autodesk’s Project Galileo Promises to Meld CAD, GIS and BIM

Autodesk’s Project Galileo promises an easy-to-use planning tool for creating 3D city models from civil, geospatial and building data, and 3D models. This new offering will start its life in Autodesk Labs, and will allow users to sketch conceptual infrastructure ideas within the 3D city model. Read More

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

First Ushahidi Deployment in Russia Receives “Internet Oscar”

The first deployment of Ushahidi in Russia – the “Help Map” project (Russian-fires.ru) that worked as a mutual aid coordination platform during unprecedented wildfires last summer – received the most prestigious award of the Russian Internet. The “Runet Award 2010” (Premia Runeta) was granted to “Help Map” as the best project in a category “State

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Esri Technology to Enhance Airport Operations and Security

Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) has recently begun a three-year project that will integrate Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology into its digital airport management system. The project will combine GIS and airport management to enhance many aspects of the airport’s operations, such as data, asset, and workflow management. It will also benefit the airport significantly

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Report on 2010 Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA)

The Report of the 2010 Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA) Review and Planning Workshop as well as Saint Lucia Coastal Atlas Stakeholders Event is now available as IOC Workshop Report No. 235. During the 2010 CMA Review and Planning Workshop participants assessed progress of the CMA project at the national as well as regional level. In particular they

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Haiti Learns from Indonesia

The Java Reconstruction Fund (JRF) pooled contributions from seven donor countries totaling US$94.1 million. A community-driven approach, fueled by the spirit of “gotong royong” – a Javanese expression to illustrate communal cooperation to achieve a shared objective – led to the building of 15,153 permanent earthquake resistant houses and completion of 1,892 infrastructure projects such

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Nasa And The World Bank Team Up With Hackers From Around The World To Meet The Challenge Of Disaster Risk Management

On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), their progressive initiative that brings together volunteer software developers and experts in disaster risk management for a weekend-long “hackathon” to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

RG and Flodim Introduce Cavity Survey Services in UK

RG has teamed up with Flodim, the French sonar specialists, to bring a full range of sonar survey services to the UK. Commercial operations will commence in November 2010 with field units based in Deganwy, North Wales as well as in Manosque in the South of France. We will offer offshore operations from early 2011.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Exprodat Lowers the KBridge

Alongside industry-leading GIS consulting and training services for the oil and gas sector, Exprodat provides a range of GIS-based software designed specifically for use in petroleum exploration and production (E&P) departments. One of these is the popular Team-GIS KBridge.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Somerset County Council Achieves End-To-End Highways Management With Confirm From Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that Somerset County Council has gone live with the UK’s most advanced highways management system, based on Confirm®, PBBI’s market-leading infrastructure asset maintenance and management system.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

European SOER2010 (State of Environment Report 2010)

The European environment — state and outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) is aimed primarily at policymakers, in Europe and beyond, involved with framing and implementing policies that could support environmental improvements in Europe. The information also helps European citizens to better understand, care for and improve Europe’s environment.