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Monday, April 4th, 2011

The Road to a Living Countryside

Land Survey invites you to an evening on the theme – The road to rural livelihoods, in collaboration with the County Board, Transport Board, Forest Service, National Association of private roads and Saffle municipality. Read More

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Italy’s Project SEE GeoForm Pursues WebGIS

“The project SEE-GeoForms” Site Effects Evaluation – Geological Form “was created with the objective of creating a simple, yet extremely powerful and comprehensive management of geological, geomorphological, geotechnical and geophysical surveys on the entire Italian territory.” The website can be accessed at a webGIS fact that, to date, presents data on the seismic hazard of Italy. WebGIS

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Agencies Blast FCC Over LightSquared Decision

Top officials at the Defense and Transportation departments sharply criticized the Federal Communications Commission for giving the go-ahead for a new hybrid cellular and satellite network that could interfere with Global Positioning System navigation and timing elements. FCC failed to consider sufficient input from federal stakeholders, they said. In addition, Deere and Co., which manufactures farm and

Monday, April 4th, 2011

World’s First GLONASS-enabled Smartphone Ships in Russia

The planet’s first GLONASS phone is now available, but it surely looks like you’ll want to soar over to Russia so that it will use it. For sure, in the event you’ve followed the GLONASS story in any respect you wouldn’t find that shocking in the slightest degree, and in case you favor to pick

Friday, April 1st, 2011

OS OpenData is One Year Old Today

Since the launch, the service has helped underpin a range of applications, helped promote government transparency and encouraged greater take up of geographic information. Among the uses is the Windsor and Maidenhead Council DataTap website, which last week won the MediaGuardian Innovation Award for best use of data. The site, built by Arcus Global, uses Ordnance

Friday, April 1st, 2011

GeoPlace Announces Plans for the National Address Gazetteer Database

Following approval from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the legal process to form GeoPlace has now been finalised, and production of the ‘national address gazetteer database’ to provide one definitive source of accurate spatial address data for England and Wales is now on track for delivery in the Autumn 2011. GeoPlace is a public sector

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Optech Announces Teledyne Minority Stake

Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce that Teledyne DALSA, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), has acquired a minority interest in the parent company of Optech Incorporated. Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated instrumentation, digital imaging products and software, aerospace

Friday, April 1st, 2011

GE Leads Builders to LEED-certified Buildings

The green market for new construction is growing with builders to suppliers jumping to meet the demand. The green market was 2 percent of non-residential construction starts in 2005; 10 to 12 percent in 2008; and will grow to 20 to 25 percent by 2013. Not only is the demand growing, the evidence is mounting for

Friday, April 1st, 2011

3-GIS Enhances Inspection Management Express Solution

A greatly enhanced version of 3-GIS’s Express Solution Inspection Management Module has been released. The Inspection Management Module extends the functionality of 3-GIS’s Network Express and Field Express applications, leveraging these Esri-enabled web and field applications to effectively enable a utility’s inspection and maintenance activities. 3-GIS has enhanced the Inspection Management module to better assist

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Blue Marble’s Sam Knight to go for World Record for World’s Longest Webinar

Blue Marble Geographics very own Samuel Knight is attempting to set a brand new World Record for the longest webinar ever given. This seminar will be an extremely detailed look into the need for proper use of punctuation within metadata. Metadata can be very useful inside geospatial software yet, gets lost in translation without the