Monday, November 1st, 2010
GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that it has appointed Dr. William L. Ballhaus to serve on GeoEye’s board of directors. He joins nine other board members. Ballhaus, who holds a doctorate degree in aeronautics and astronautics, is currently a senior advisor and operating partner
Monday, November 1st, 2010
The data protection solution provided by Envault Corporation secures the contents of removable media through envaulting. The innovation allows enterprises to retain absolute control of the only key that opens encrypted data. The ubiquitous flash drive represents one of the most common corporate data security risks. Until now, practically the only means to protect sensitive data
Monday, November 1st, 2010
One of the major challenges of using spatial information is transferring points from a spherical object, like the earth, and displaying them on a two dimensional map. The sciences of geodesy and surveying are used by cartographers to accomplish this task. Unfortunately there is not just one way to project points to a flat map.
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
Topcon Europe Positioning B.V. announces that Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS, Livermore, California) has acquired InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands. In addition to continuing to distribute Topcon and Sokkia positioning products to the construction and survey markets in Spain and Portugal,
Sunday, October 31st, 2010
At midnight tonight, the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve will come into force in the British territorial waters of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. But this new sanctuary, designated as a “no-take” zone where commercial fishing will be banned, serves to underline how catastrophically the international community has fallen short of a
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
“Navitel Navigator” is a unique and accurate navigation system. Detailed Russia map. Free traffic jams information service. SPEEDCAMs. The most detailed map of Russia: more than 118 000 cities and towns, 1500 of them contain address search information. The most detailed Moscow and Saint-Petersburg map. Towns and transit routes in all regions. Huge POI base (Gas stations, police, cafes, restaurants, motels, etc.). You
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
The reduction of emissions forms a key objective for the European Commission. The Europe 2020 Strategy confirms the 20-20-20 targets aiming at a reduction in EU greenhouse gas emissions of at least 20% below 1990 levels, 20% of EU energy consumption to come from renewable resources and a 20% reduction in primary energy use compared
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Aerial photography has been added to Hastings County’s online mapping service, enhancing the existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) resources. Warden Jo-Anne Albert said the detailed, colour aerial photography is a major improvement to the free service. “With this change our county maps are becoming a powerful source of information resources and a terrific communications tool that
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a global treaty aimed at protecting the biodiversity of the world’s forests, coral reefs, and other threatened ecosystems. The agreement was met with applause and relief after two weeks of heated negotiations, after environment ministers from 193 countries agreed to a landmark deal aimed at ensuring greater protection of nature
Friday, October 29th, 2010
OpenGeo today announced that OpenGeo’s Paul Ramsey will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming OSGeo.JP, the regional open source conference series held every year in Tokyo and Osaka. This year’s meetings will be held October 31-November 1, in Tokyo and November 5-6 in Osaka. Ramsey will be delivering addresses on open source economics and
