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Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Bentley Delivers eB Insight – the Foundation of Its AssetWise Platform for Asset Lifecycle Information Management

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced its first release of eB Insight, the foundation of Bentley’s AssetWise platform. First introduced a year ago at the 2010 ARC World Industry Forum, AssetWise provides operations information modeling that increases the return on investment for owner-operators of infrastructure assets.

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Esri’s New File Geodatabase API Brings Flexibility to C++ Developers

The beta release of the highly anticipated Esri File Geodatabase API is now available and will help developers improve the interoperability of applications. The API allows developers to create applications that can interact with a file geodatabase without using ArcObjects so that applications can be run on computers that do not have an ArcObjects license.

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Hidden Journeys Crosses the Channel – Farnborough to Canne

Did you know that over 200,000 years ago you could walk from Britain to France? Or that during the 19th Century Russian Czars would shoot pheasants in Midhurst, West Sussex? Or even that the rich and famous are jetting off to France and beyond in the skies above your head? Read More

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Use and User Issues in Cartography and Geo-information Processing and Dissemination

The presentation slides of the Workshop on Methods and Techniques of Use, User and Usability Research in Geoinformation Processing and Dissemination, London, April 13 2010 are available online. The presentation slides of the Third Workshop on Usability of Geographic Information, organized by Ordnance Survey and the Commission (on November 10 2010 in Southampton) areavailable online. The most relevant textbook

Monday, February 7th, 2011

3-GIS and “DATA +” Announce Long Term Partnership

3-GIS, an Alabama based product development and services company and “Data +”, Russia’s leading provider of technologies and solutions for the creation of geographic information systems (GIS) have announced a partnership agreement. Across Russia and the surrounding countries, “Data +” will offer its clients the 3-GIS Express Solution, an ESRI ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client

Monday, February 7th, 2011

LizardTech Exhibits at the International LIDAR Mapping Forum 2011

LizardTech®, a division of Celartem Inc. and a leading provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, is exhibiting in Booth #3 at the International LiDAR Mapping Forum (ILMF) 2011 this week. LizardTech LiDAR Compressor software enables you to turn giant point cloud datasets into efficient MrSID files that retain 100 percent of

Monday, February 7th, 2011

3D Laser Mapping StreetMapper First in Africa

Global Geomatics is set to revolutionise the survey market in Africa following the purchase of a StreetMapper mobile laser mapping system. It is the first system of it’s kind to be operational in Africa and will provide Global Geomatics with a competitive advantage with a world-leading rapid surveying capability. Global Geomatics is a multi disciplinary

Monday, February 7th, 2011

Aligned Assets Announce Best Practice Days for 2011

Now in their third year, the latest dates for the Best Practice Days run by gazetteer specialists Aligned Assets have been announced. In a change to the previous format that saw them based on the use of gazetteers across the public sector, these events have been split between the use of gazetteers in the emergency services

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Azavea, George Mason University and Harvard University Present District Builder

As part of their Public Mapping Project, Dr. Michael P. McDonald of George Mason University and Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, have teamed up with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, to develop District Builder (http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software), an open source, web-based redistricting application.  

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Fractals in Google Maps

Today, we launched Julia Map on Google Labs, a fractal renderer in HTML 5. Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelbrot studied the set z2 − c and popularized it by generating the first computer visualisation. Generating these images requires heavy computation