Monday, March 7th, 2011
The Alberta government’s proposed land-use framework is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has become mired in controversy. It seeks to end the free-for-all on Alberta’s landscapes that emerged after the dissolution of regional planning commissions by the Klein government in the mid-1980s. The Alberta Land Stewardship Act and two companion pieces of legislation wisely divides the
Monday, March 7th, 2011
TrafficCast International, Inc. today announced that Econolite Canada, Inc. will distribute its BlueTOAD™ line of products, enabling localized sales services and technical support in the ten provinces and three territories of Canada. Econolite Canada is an innovator of transportation management solutions and represents a wide range of advanced technology products, including traffic signal controllers, traffic management
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Garmin International Inc., announced the G1000H, an all-glass avionics system designed specifically for the VFR Part 27 helicopter market. The G1000H provides important flight data — flight instrumentation, navigation, communication, weather, terrain, traffic, identification, and diagnostics and maintenance computer — and presents it digitally to the pilot on large, high-resolution displays. “The G1000H is a highly flexible
Monday, March 7th, 2011
The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) measurement standard has been chosen by Government organisations in three continents as the common standard for measuring the energy efficiency of data centres. This will allow data centre operators to measure, calculate, improve and communicate the energy efficiencies of their data centres worldwide. Read More
Monday, March 7th, 2011
North American harbours are not effective enough for Maersk to place its new behemoth ships on routes to the continent, according to managing director Eivind Kolding. Kolding’s comments came as the company announced it had ordered ten ships, each with a capacity of 18,000 20-foot containers and a length of 400 metres. Maersk also has the
Monday, March 7th, 2011
The United Nations Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) ended on Wednesday with a clear commitment to sustainable economics and to a fundamental reform of UNorganisational structures. Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, who gave the keynote speech on UN environmental reform on Wednesday, stressed: “The long overdue restructuring of national economies worldwide towards a green economy will only
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
The following partnerships have been signed: De Telefoongids & Gouden Gids (the Netherlands), Gelbe Seiten (Germany), Opplysningen (Norway), Lokaldelen (Sweden), De Gule Sider (Denmark) and Truvo (Belgium, Portugal and Ireland). Lucien Groenhuijzen, Managing Director of TomTom Places says: “Closing these agreements marks an important milestone in the improvement of our offering. It also offers business listings
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Seminar on land cadastre was held in Istanbul, February 24-27. The event discussed the use of new techs and software in the field of land cadastre between the two countries. Azerbaijan was represented in the seminar by Nazim Ismailov, the Manager of the State Land Cadastre and Monitoring Science and Production Center of the State Land
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Romios Gold Resources Inc. announces that a 2010 mapping project from the British Columbia Geological Survey (“BCGS”) confirmed Romios’ previous claims that the Dirk property mineralization is analogous to and may be as large as the Galore Creek project.
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Critical for site selection, marketing, logistics and other activities, Urban Mapping’s public transport data features highly detailed information about more than 150 public transportation systems in North America. UMI employs a globally-distributed field research network to collect information about bus, rail and ferry systems, including ridership data, station attributes, entrance locations, schedules, unplanned events and
