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Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Autodesk Announces Autodesk Plant Conversion Program for CADWorx

-Autodesk, Inc. today announced the Autodesk Plant Conversion Program for CADWorx Customers. The program is designed to help users of Intergraph CADWorx software transition to the benefits of the Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2011, a new software suite for plant designers who need powerful plant design and whole-project review capabilities in a single integrated package

Monday, September 27th, 2010

Brandenburg – Service Portal for Metadata Online

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

Chaos Systems Changes Name to Adtollo

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

ESRI Training Till Year-end Plus Capability Scale-up on Moving with ArcGIS 10

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

ArchiCAD 14 Czech Version Released

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

ANZLIC Metadata Profile now e-GIF Standard

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

How to Explain the Business Benefits of Open Source for Government

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

Exprodat Consulting Aims for 600 by the end of 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

Air Pollutant Emissions to Exceed Limits

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 Appoints Gary Roberts as Executive Vice President, EMEA

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,