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Friday, October 8th, 2010

DevGeo Event Will Jumpstart Your Mapping App Development

Esri will host a free DevGeo event Thursday afternoon, November 4, 2010, in Santa Clara, California, at the Network Meeting Center.  DevGeo Silicon Valley is for developers who want to add dynamic mapping capabilities to their Web and mobile applications.Sessions ar e designed to help software developers who work with JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, iOS, or Windows

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Larry Ellison Unveils ORACLE Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world’s first and only integrated middleware machine—a combined hardware and software offering designed to revolutionize datacenter consolidation. Read More

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Tunbridge Wells Rolls Out Dotted Eyes’ Contractor Portal

Dotted Eyes, the market leading GeoData and information software specialist, today announces the deployment of its Contractor Portal data sharing system by Tunbridge Wells Borough Council (TWBC).  Completed on time and on budget, the system is already meeting the Council’s need for a low-cost solution to providing automated data access to contractors, partners and internal

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Building Stronger INSPIRE Based Community Networks: Extending HUMBOLDT

1Spatial, including other consortium members; RSW Geomatics and Rob Walker Consultancy, has just completed a project for the Joint Research Council (JRC) on Schema Transformation Network Services for INSPIRE. The project involved a review of the current tools and standards available to the community to achieve schema transformation into INSPIRE compliant data structures. The primary

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

AeroGRID To Provide Aerial Photography of South Africa

AeroGRID has announced the availability of wide area aerial photography of South Africa. The imagery, which comprises over 400,000km² of orthophoto coverage includes high resolution photos of Cape Town, is being supplied by Geosense a core  AeroGRID partner. “Following our recent agreement with Ramani (Nairobi) to distribute their Kenyan photography, this addition of extensive South African

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

AeroGRID Adds Full Aerial Coverage of France and Spain

  AeroGRID has signed agreements with two new partners, IGN, France (Institut Geographique National) and CNIG España adding full orthophoto coverage of France and Spain to its already impressive aerial photography coverage of Western Europe.

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

DataCAD Announces GrafiCalc 2011

DataCAD Software & Services GmbH, a provider of technical software solutions for the industry, today announced the release of GrafiCalc 2011 software from GEOMATE. It enables users to simulate and solve all critical engineering challenges before committing the design to CAD and manufacturing resources. Net results are higher qualityproducts that can be produced cost-effectively to perform as expected

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

Government of Canada Announces Funding to EQuilibriumTM Communities Project in Ottawa

A South Ottawa development today received Government of Canada funding to help improve the planning and design of a healthy, energy-efficient and sustainable community. Local Member of Parliament Pierre Poilievre announced $550,000 in funding under the EQuilibriumTM Communities Initiative on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and Minister

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

City of Toronto Recognized for Outstanding Use of GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the City of Toronto with an Award of Excellence for its outstanding achievements in the application of geographic information system (GIS) technology.  The award was presented at the 2010 ESRI Canada User Conference in Toronto.  Since 1985, GIS has been an integral part of many of Toronto’s business processes – from map

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

3TIER Releases U.S. Solar Performance Maps

3TIER®, a global leader in renewable energy information services, today released maps illustrating how solar irradiance varied from its normal monthly averages across the U.S. from June through August, 2010.  The maps dispel a popular perception that solar energy is relatively consistent from year to year and underscore the need for thorough resource assessments prior