Sunday, November 7th, 2010
DEFRA – EU Member States have to report annually a number of indicators for monitoring the implementation and use of their infrastructures for spatial information. The information provided includes a list of spatial data sets and services belonging to those infrastructures. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Alberta set strict limits on how much water oil sands companies can remove from the Athabasca River, setting a high level of protection that is balanced with the needs of the community and industry. The goal is to ensure low impact to the river ecosystem, coupled with water conservation and innovation by water users. Alberta is
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Home Junctions’ SpatialMatch is an advanced geo-spatial lifestyle search platform for real estate agents, brokers, and Multiple Listing Service (MLS). As part of the partnership, Factual will provide Home Junction with US POI (points of interest) data and crowdsourcing tools to leverage the knowledge of real estate agents at the hyper-local neighborhood level to keep
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Ag Leader Technology, Inc. introduced its latest GPS offering, the GPS 2500 all-in-one antenna and GNSS receiver. The new GPS 2500 features a dual frequency receiver and the capability to receive WAAS/EGNOS, OmniSTAR XP/HP/VBS and GLONASS satellite signals. The receiver also supports e-Dif for areas where other differential signals aren’t available. “Providing the option for OmniSTAR
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
The OTrack-32™ is a highly integrated baseband chipset with low power and high-performance GPS/GLONASS/BD solution. Owing to over than 1 million powerful correlator designs, OTrack32 is capable of receiving multi-band GNSS radios simultaneously up to four groups and processing signals concurrently to make multiple constellation navigation possible within a single chip. Read More
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Alberta has access to twice as much wind power now that a 90-kilometre transmission line is up and running between Pincher Creek and Lethbridge. AltaLink CEO Scott Thon says the 240-kilovolt line strengthens the existing electrical transmission system in the southwest part of the province. Read More
Friday, November 5th, 2010
As part of the Planning in Practice Graduate Programme hosted by the Directorate for the Built Environment at the end of June, the Architecture and Place Division ran a one-day Masterplanning class with 25 planning graduates. The workshop encouraged the graduates to apply their planning knowledge to a practical design exercise with an emphasis on
Friday, November 5th, 2010
As part of the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SSCI), a Charrette Series was held between 1 and 25 March 2010. The SSCI Charrette Series provided a unique and innovative opportunity for Scotland to develop new approaches to sustainable planning while enabling a new level of public engagement in the place-making process. A ‘charrette’ is an
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Manmade ocean acidification will have profound impacts on marine life, even without a further increase of CO₂ emissions. Latest evidence shows that sea water chemistry is already changing and only rapid and huge reductions of fossil fuel use and deforestation can help restore ocean’s health, according to IUCN. A new guide, Ocean Acidification: Questions Answered,
Friday, November 5th, 2010
Today, a Toronto development is receiving Government of Canada support for the planning and design of a healthy, energy-efficient and sustainable community in the Regent Park area. The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural
