Thursday, August 26th, 2010
The new version of ArcGIS Explorer, a free geographic information system (GIS) viewer, opens more avenues for users to share geographic information. It also has many new interoperability updates that help integrate it with ArcGIS 10, including direct support for image services, improved support for ArcGIS 10 layer packages and geodatabases, and more ways to leverage ArcGIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Joining quikmaps and ScribbleMaps, DRAWaMAP lets you draw features in a Google Maps interface, and save them. Supported features include : Lines Markers Polygons Time polygons – you set a time and speed, and DRAWaMAP draws a polygon encompassing the walking distance around that point based on Google Maps data. Map Density Quadtree. Read More
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Nearing the end of its third month of continuous operation, the International Space Station’s ship-tracking experiment has experienced a marked increase in data quality. Now it operates along with a dedicated satellite carrying the same receiver. The Station’s Columbus laboratory is being used to track Automatic Identification System (AIS) signals from ships at sea. AIS
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lockheed Martin today congratulated the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) on the 50-year anniversary of the first Corona photo reconnaissance satellite image from space, which ushered in new space-based capabilities for the nation. First developed as a joint U.S. Air Force and Central Intelligence Agency program to provide surveillance from space
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Computer-generated 3D city models from Bluesky are helping Mott MacDonald deliver safe, sustainable and user-friendly civil infrastructure projects. The highly accurate and detailed models are being used by the worldwide consultancy to give a better understanding of the wind environment around urban infrastructure projects. By creating highly complex engineering models Mott MacDonald simulates the flow
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Geosparc, the company commercially supporting the open source GIS application framework Geomajas, today announced that it will be present at Foss4G, the international conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial, in Barcelona (Spain) from 6 till 9 September 2010 at Booth 12. At Foss4G the Company will demonstrate numerous applications built with Geomajas and officially
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Europe’s coastal zones are under increasing pressure from erosion, pollution, climate change, urbanisation and tourism. Such pressures threaten entire ecosystems — vital not only for wildlife but also for the economy and human well-being. The European Environment Agency (EEA) takes a closer look at the state of coastal ecosystems and policy responses to the pressures
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Simon Thompson, director of global business solutions, Esri, asks retailers to raise the bar and start reflecting local flavors and themes in the stores they open. “On my last drive across Kansas, it wasn’t the wheat fields or the flatness that amazed me but the repetitive retail landscape,” Thompson explains. “It seemed that every small
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
At FOSS4G, once closed the selection period we are glad to present our final program:http://2010.foss4g.org/program.php More than 700 people have already subscribed and the number is growing every day. If you have not subscribed yet, do it now: http://2010.foss4g.org/registration.php Some workshops are already sold out so don’t loose the chance to choose your favourite workshop. See you in Barcelona!
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
On Wednesday Sweden hosted a meeting of environment ministers on the Baltic Sea environment. Ministers and high-ranking representatives of all Baltic Sea states attended the seminar entitled “Building marine policy on best available knowledge”. This is the first meeting under the Swedish Chairmanship of Baltic Sea cooperation body HELCOM. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren
