Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Intergraph® today presented the Icon Award, the company’s highest customer honor, to seven industry and government leaders for their visionary use of Intergraph’s enterprise engineering and geospatial software. The Icon Award winners were named during the opening keynote presentations at Intergraph 2010, Intergraph’s international users’ conference. Read More
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) calls for participation in the OGC Web Services (OWS) Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (IE) to advance best practice for implementing standards on federated security in transactions involving geospatial data and services. Shibboleth is an open source software package released by the Internet2 Consortium based on the SAML standard from OASIS. The
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
A new RapidBus service connecting downtown Kelowna with the University of British Columbia-Okanagan (UBCO), and enhancing service to the Rutland area, was unveiled today. These new services will begin operations on Sunday, Sept. 5, helping to bring transit users, including students, to their destinations easier and faster than ever before, and helping to build a
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
At the time, you could only use a limited number of pre-packaged datasets. Bjorn has just announced the Thematic Mapping Engine API, a Javascript library that lets you do thematic mapping in the Google Earth plugin with your own data (including online sources like Google Docs Spreadsheet). Still in beta, and Bjorn is looking for
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The Kingdom of Jordan has successfully deployed Intergraph® public safety and security incident management software as part of a comprehensive, nationwide homeland security initiative to prevent and respond to local and regional terrorism threats and related security challenges. Intergraph’s public safety and security incident management software supports police, fire, and emergency response agency operations throughout
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
The use of salt to deice pavement can leave urban streams toxic to aquatic life, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study on the influence of winter runoff in northern U.S. cities, with a special focus on eastern Wisconsin and Milwaukee. More than half of the Milwaukee streams included in this study had samples
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Beijing Power Information Technology Research Center, based in Beijing, China, has selected Intergraph® G/Technology and GeoMedia® WebMap to improve its smart grid operations. The technology will be used to support power grid design, centrally manage the lifecycle of power grid assets and enhance decision making through real-time monitoring and alarming. With these functions, the utility
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
OpenGeo, the leader in open source geospatial web services, announces a new, global partner program to expand support options for users of the OpenGeo Suite. The OpenGeo Partner Programwill create an international network of service providers, to bring more people into the open source ecosystem by aligning the financial incentives of consultants and solution providers with those
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Join the authors of Planning for Climate Change and Governing for Sustainable Urban Development for an event that analyses the link between place-making governance and climate change. Jenny Crawford and Yvonne Rydin will examine the development strategies that are available to spatial planners and policy makers before looking at the way in which governance can intervene in the
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems is pleased to announce the release of GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS®, version 2.0. Offering accurate and highly automated tools for correcting raw satellite imagery, GeoImaging Tools is revolutionizing the integration of remotely sensed imagery into GIS workflows. Learn More
