Monday, September 27th, 2010
A few days ago the ‚Service Portal for Metadata‘ of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Berlin/Brandenburg (GDI-BE/BB) has been launched successfully: the Landesvermessung und Geobasisinformation Brandenburg (LGB) and the geoinformation service provider DELPHI IMM GmbH from Potsdam announce the official end of the testing phase. The Service Portal for Metadata represents a reliable and freely available
Monday, September 27th, 2010
To exemplify our offer to the market will Chaos systems change the name to Adtollo. We make the name change to put focus at our two business areas: consulting services and systems. The name change does only concern the company name, our software system names Topocad and Chaos desktop remain the same. Stefan Andersson, general manager, says:
Monday, September 27th, 2010
We are also pleased to extend specially to our current customers (those on added 12 – 24 months maintenance after software purchase) – to enjoy a 2 pax (payable) plus 1 (complimentary) for “What’s New in ArcGIS Desktop 10” & “What’s New in Editing at ArcGIS Desktop 10”. If interested, do drop us your company’s
Monday, September 27th, 2010
The Czech version is the sixteenth of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule, and follows the release of the International, German, Austrian, New Zealand, US, Italian, Australian, French, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Russian versions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010.
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) Metadata Profile (version 1.1) is now the recommended e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) geospatial metadata standard for use by New Zealand government agencies. The Profile was endorsed by the State Services Commission in July 2010, following a consultation period which showed support for the Profile from the geospatial community. One of the
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
At the recent Open Source Asia/Pacific conference, I presented on the tricky subject of “How to sell Open Source Software to Government”, which can equally be read as “What logic can I use to convince my boss that using Open Source is a good idea?” This is particularly pertinent to New Zealand’s geospatial community who have
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Alongside software and consulting services, Exprodat Consulting offers some of the most popular GIS-based training courses to the Oil & Gas industry. To prove their point, the company has just completed a course that included their 500th attendee. Such is the popularity and value of their courses, the company expects to pass the 600 mark
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
In 2010, around half of the European Union’s Member States expect to surpass one or more of the legal limits set by the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive). The annual status report released today by the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms that 11 countries anticipate an exceedance of their ceilings for NOx — some
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) today announced the promotion of Gary Roberts to Executive Vice President, EMEA. Having been with PBBI for just under three years, Roberts most recently served as Managing Director, UK & Ireland and Regional Director of Northern Europe, where he was responsible for 60% of PBBI’s EMEA revenues. Previously Director of Retail,
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Gordon Hopkinson was one of the world’s experts in the physics of optical detectors used in a wide range of applications from digital cameras through to international space missions and even mobile phones. For three decades he was involved in detailed analysis and modelling of solid state cameras and contributed significantly to the research of
