Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
CIFOR researchers have produced a prototype, governance assessment tool, for use at local levels (communities, districts, landscapes). A three to five member, interdisciplinary (multi-stakeholder, dual gender) team spends 1-2 weeks in the field, assessing the tool’s 12 indicators of good governance. The tool has three sections: stakeholders and their relationships, access to resources, and structure
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Matrox is pleased announce that the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (INBS) has selected Matrox Extio Series Remote Graphics Units to regulate noise and stability issues for 25 dual- and quad-monitor worskstations across 8 studios. Extio F1220 and F1400 KVM extension solutions separate the keyboard, mouse, audio peripherals, and graphics hardware from the host PC via fibre-optic cable, while supporting up to
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Cortona3D, a proven leader in 3D visual communication and publishing software, today announced the completion of a reseller agreement with PRION GmbH PLM & IT Solutions to represent its products to the DACH PLM market. PRION has been delivering comprehensive, business driven PLM solutions for demanding customers in Machinery, Automotive, Aerospace & Defence and Utilities since
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
SuperWebGIS 3 is the map server software enabling enterprises to deliver dynamic maps and GIS data to the Internet. In recent years, the matured Web GIS technologies have extended Web GIS applications, and large-scale Web GIS plans have also been developed. However, large quantities of data seem to be the inevitable problem in executing these large-scale
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Academia Historica is the highest authority of history in Taiwan and also the most essential organization collecting, organizing, storing, editing, and studying the modern history of Republic of China (ROC). The museum collects a great number of the historical materials related to the modern history of ROC, and the materials can be used as the
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
We remind you that we are now expecting communication proposals for the 6th gvSIG Conference (Valencia, 1st-3rd December 2010) . The deadline is September 21st. You just have to send an abstract, following the template provided on the Reports section of the Conference web page to [email protected] and the scientific committee will evaluate it to be
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
New research by Ordnance Survey among Directors and Managers of Operational Risk in the financial sector reveals that a lack of resources is, and will continue to be a problem as operational risk continues to increase in importance. Despite operational risk moving up the organisational agenda over the last year according to over 84% of respondents,
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) established the GIS Hall of Fame in 2005 to recognize and honor the most esteemed leaders of the geospatial community. To be considered for the GIS Hall of Fame, an individual’s or an organization’s record of contribution to the advancement of the industry demonstrates creative thinking and
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky has launched a new cost effective way to obtain irrefutable evidence for use in boundary disputes and other land based disputes or studies. Priced at just £175 the OldAerialPhotos Photopack contains two digital image files; one archive aerial photograph of a location in the past and a corresponding image from the
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The latest version of the 3D Landscape API for Android contains some major improvements. Apart from bug fixes and general tweaking there are two new features: First off is the support for adding map pins to the 3D map. Map pins can show for example places of interest or point out addresses. The map pins
