Friday, November 12th, 2010
All major oil and gas/condensate fields, all major oil and gas pipelines including those under construction and planned, LNG import and export terminals, gas processing plants and underground gas processing facilities and oil refineries and tanker terminals. Read More
Friday, November 12th, 2010
AND Automotive Navigation Data, the independent Dutch mapmaker of navigation mapping data, has completed the map of North America. The full Digital Map of Canada and the USA is now available for commercial use. The vector-based digital map has more than 11.5 million kilometer. The map contains all roads, streets, house numbers, cities and villages.
Friday, November 12th, 2010
The Climate and Vulnerability Commission recommended in their report (SOU 2007:60) that Lantmäteriet should be commissioned to produce a New National Elevation Model (In Swedish: Ny Nationell Höjdmodell) with high accuracy. (Standard error should be better than 0,5 m for grid points in a 2 metre grid). During 2008, Lantmäteriet prepared a production plan for
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of an OGC Web Services (OWS) Publish/Subscribe (PubSub) Standards Working Group (SWG) to meet the need of many geospatial applications to provide notification of events such as a sensor reading falling below a certain threshold or new data becoming available as a service. Often the events need
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Esri is working with NetHope to make technology more accessible and applicable to its members. Esri supports NetHope by providing geographic information system (GIS) software and support via the Esri Nonprofit Organization Program, collaborating with technology leaders such as Intel and developing GIS solutions for humanitarian relief.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Carmel Tunnel, a new traffic route and the longest of its kind in Israel, will open under strict eco-friendly standards next month in Haifa, Israel’s chief port and third-largest city. The 3.5-mile route is built atop a former landfill and connects Haifa’s eastern and western districts, redirecting drivers from downtown to an alternative route to
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Colortrac, an important innovator in the field of wide format scanning technology, has achieved a breakthrough in improving the scanning workflow of large format documents with the launch of the SmartWorks Pro software family. These newTouch Screen enabled products are designed to utilise all the features of the SmartLF scanner family in a way that improves the scanning
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Baroness Joan Hanham CBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has launched a brand new service to help improve the teaching of geography in schools with Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, Director General and Chief Executive of national mapping agency Ordnance Survey.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The European Forest Institute (EFI) is seeking a Forest Economist for its EFICENT-Observatory for European Forests (OEF) in Nancy, France. Please find the job announcement attached or see at http://www.efi.int/portal/about_efi/human_resources/careers/open_posts/ The contract will be until the end of 2012, with the possibility of extension. Deadline for application is 30th of Nov.
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data – involving up to 2000 firms
