Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Interdisciplinary Research Consultants (IdRC) and ESRI Canada today announced that the companies have been selected to provide consulting services on the design of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the Kingdom of Jordan. This will help Jordan develop a national strategic plan that will enable broad sharing of geographic information to monitor and support the
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, has won the 6th ‘Gold Map Award’ by means of its ‘Taiwan Biodiversity Network’ platform. Held by Taiwan Geographic Information Society (TGIS), Gold Map Award is to recognize the outstanding applications and technical innovation of GIS technologies. This year, SuperGeo received ‘Best Promotion Service’
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Siemens’ Mobility Division is expanding its engineering capacities in Zilina, Slovakia in order to sharpen its international focus on project processing. From now on, the Rail Automation Business Unit will have its own department in the Zilina Engineering Center. This new department was officially opened for business today under the leadership of Siemens Slovakia and
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
OpenGeo today announced that Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, has agreed to an OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition contract to support its ongoing spatial data infrastructure initiatives. The OS OnDemand service from Ordnance Survey has recently adopted GeoServer as its primary Web Map Service to customers, and the OpenGeo Suite contract will fund core development
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
The central economic importance of the world’s natural assets is now firmly on the political radar as a result of an international assessment showcasing the enormous economic value of forests, freshwater, soils and coral reefs, as well as the social and economic costs of their loss, the head of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the release of its inaugural Bentley Infrastructure 500 Top Owners ranking. This unique global compendium of the top public- and private-sector owners of infrastructure is based on the value of their cumulative infrastructure investments
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Yesterday morning, before a select audience of senior infrastructure professionals from leading architectural, engineering, construction, and owner-operator organizations, Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley and SVP Bhupinder Singh presented the company’s progress and plans for leveraging information modeling, both for increasingly integrated projects, and for operations of high-performing, intelligent infrastructure assets. Bentley Systems is the leading
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced the availability of an application to assist its users in the management of NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) data. Already deployed at several sites in the UK, the Cadcorp NLPG Data Loader is a simple but powerful application that takes Gazetteer data
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
For its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones, the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, the European augmentation system that
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Members of the worldwide Esri user community are invited to tell their geographic information system (GIS) story and share their expertise at the 2011 Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). The deadline for abstract submissions is November 15, 2010. Learn More
