Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
NAVTEQ is supplying NAVTEQ map and location content for Panasonic’s LUMIX DMC-TZ20/ZS10 and DMC-FT3/TS3, the newest member of Panasonic’s acclaimed LUMIX Series of digital cameras. Traditionally, consumers can only organize their photo collection via date/time. With the integration of maps and location content in an increasing number of imaging devices, consumers can now geographically organize
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
-Veolia Water and Orange are joining forces in the smart metering sector and are launching m2o city, an operator specialized in remote environmental data and water meter reading services. Building on the expertise of Veolia Water – which already operates over 200,000 water meters – and Orange’s expertise as a telco, the m2o cityjoint-venture offers
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Construction has begun on a new hydroelectric plant in Costa Rica, between the provinces of Alajuela and San José. The new plant, named Chucas, will have an installed capacity of 50 MW, and once fully up and running, will generate around 219 million kWh/year, equal to the annual consumption of over 81 thousand households
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
The public can now access the same aerial imagery of Christchurch that Police, Civil Defence, and other emergency responders have been using to assess damage to the area. The imagery of the city was flown on 24 February, and clearly shows the extent of the damage from the 22 February quake. As the country’s national mapping agency, Land Information
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Exhibitors at GEO-11 have selected the UK’s No 1 GEO Event as the perfect opportunity to launch new surveying and data capture instruments, demonstrate software upgrades and showcase business promotions. Platinum Sponsors Leica Geosystems will use GEO-11 to launch a brand new High Definition Surveying™ 3D Laser Scanner while Faro will be showcasing its own
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC WaterML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG). WaterML 2.0 is a candidate OGC encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data. WaterML 2.0 is implemented as an application schema of the Geography Markup Language (GML) version 3.2.1 and makes use of the OGC
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Gilberto Câmara, director of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), in Brazil, is between the indicated by the geospatial community for the MundoGEO#Connect Award, in the category “Geo-Technology Personality of the Decade”. Promoted by MundoGEO WebPortal, the interactive awards chooses the best professionals who, for their innovative performance, make this market grow in a
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
Blue Marble Geographics announces the release of the latest version of GeoCalc 6.4.5 coordinate transformation library and toolkit. One of the major enhancements of this release supports time stamped coordinate reference frames, which are critical for highly accurate mapping in areas of the earth where there is tectonic shifting and movement of the earth’s crust.
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Channel 4’s flagship programme Time Team, which has been uncovering the archaeological mysteries of the British Isles since 1994, has used sophisticated 3D laser scanning technology to create high definition flythough animations. A survey team from Digital Surveys captured hundreds of millions of millimetre accurate measurements to map the development of advanced fortifications around Mont Orgueil Castle
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Spatial Energy, the leading source for digital imagery and services for the energy industry, and IHS, a business information and analytics provider, today announced a subscription agreement to provide online access to Microsoft Corp.’s Bing Maps through IHS products. Bing Maps is a worldwide collection of current content and data types, such as street maps, satellite
