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Friday, November 19th, 2010

Urban Mapping Enhances Its Industry Leading Neighborhood Boundary Data and Technology

Urban Mapping, Inc (UMI) announced updates to the company’s market leading Neighborhoods database, which now includes over 106,000 neighborhoods in over 3,500 cities across the United States, Canada and Europe. The update to the database includes new neighborhood names and edits that are all a result of UMI’s own local research and verified customer feedback.

Friday, November 19th, 2010

OpenGeo and GET Ltd. Announce Partnership to Offer Solutions for Open Source Geospatial Users in Greece and Cyprus

OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, today announced a reseller agreement with Athens-basedGeospatial Enabling Technologies Ltd. (GET), to bring the first Enterprise FOSS stack offering to the Greek and Cyprian markets. GET is a dominant provider of geoinformatic marketing and service solutions in Greece and Cyprus.  This new relationship enables GET to expand its capabilities

Friday, November 19th, 2010

terrestris GmbH & Co. KG and OpenGeo Announce Partnership in Support of European Geospatial Users

OpenGeo announced today that they will enter a reseller agreement with terrestris GmbH & Co. KG, a geoinformatics provider from Bonn, Germany. The company terrestris specializes in spatial data infrastructures as well as open source geoportals, and will now be able to expand their capabilities and offer clients solutions based upon the OpenGeo Suite, a

Friday, November 19th, 2010

Geoimage Retained for Next Round of NSW Image Processing

Geoimage announces that the company is in the process of completing Round 4 of the SPOT5 image processing project for the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW).The 2.5m resolution SPOT5 satellite imagery has been an important tool in detecting changes in vegetation cover and extent. The imagery supports a

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Architect Kimon Onuma to Keynote the GeoDesign Summit

Prominent architect Kimon Onuma will give the Keynote Address at the 2011 GeoDesign Summit in Redlands, California, on January 6, 2011. Founder of Onuma, Inc., he is one of the world’s experts on adopting new design practices that can evolve to meet tomorrow’s challenges. His firm uses a unique blend of building and software architects

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

2010 ESRI Canada Scholarship Award Recipients Announced

ESRI Canada today announced the recipients of the 2010 ESRI Canada Scholarship Award. The national scholarship program recognizes Canadian universities and colleges with an exceptional focus on geographic information system (GIS) technology, and is designed to promote innovation among Canada’s future leaders. This year, students from 46 educational institutions across the country will receive more than

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Colortrac Expands Senior Management Team

Colortrac Limited has further extended its commitment to profitable business expansion with the appointment of Rob van Brakel to its senior management team. He joins the British wide format scanner manufacturer as their new Marketing Manager with worldwide responsibility for developing and implementing all elements of Colortrac’s marketing activities. See: www.colortrac.com

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Landmark Welcomes Change in Ordnance Survey Licensing

Following a change in the Ordnance Survey (OS) licensing agreement that comes into effect today (18 November), partners of OS will now be able to compete on a level playing field for the provision of OS mapping and data. The announcement has been welcomed by mapping and data specialists Landmark Information Group as a positive step

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Clark Labs Unveiling New Tools for REDD+ at Forest Day During COP16

Clark Labs will be unveiling new tools for REDD+ at the Forest Day 4 event in Cancun that will enable users to measure carbon emissions with the BioCarbon Fund methodology and model the impacts of alternative economic policies with an interface to the OSIRIS modeling tool. These new features will be publicly available within the

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Appointment of New Managing Director In BLOM UK

Blom is delighted to announce the appointment of Dave Fox as Managing Director of UK operations. Dave brings considerable experience to Blom and will be instrumental in building upon the foundations Blom has throughout the UK. “We are extremely pleased to have Dave join the management team at Blom. His extensive experience and knowledge will be