Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The ePSIplatform has published the 10th in a series of Topic Reports on PSI Re-use and Open Data topics. Title: PSI Re-use in France: Overview and Recent Developments Author: Ruth Martinez, General Delegate, GFII (Groupement Français de l’Industrie de l’Information) Publication Date: 5 July 2010 This latest report is a briefing with reflections and an overview on
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The European Commission (EC) Joint research Centre INSPIRE information platform has published the Krakow INSPIRE Declaration. The declaration states: “Krakow Declaration on INSPIRE approved at the Closing Session of the Conference “INSPIRE as a framework for cooperation”, 23-25 June, 2010 In total 670 scientists, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs, managers, administrators, and representatives of civil societies from 50 countries
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI) has informed the European Public Sector Information platform on the latest developments made in the eSDI-NETplus project and released a press release titled: Spatial Data Infrastructures exchange experiences at the INSPIRE Conference 2010. “EUROGI announce that the final consortium meeting of eSDI-NETplus took place in Krakow in the week of
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UK local authorities can now instantly pinpoint and contact all residents affected by road closures, floods or health hazards following the development of an innovative solution by GGP Systems. The company has combined computer mapping and property ID technology to create address lists allowing instant mail merges for notification or consultation letters and other direct communications. The
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
According to a recent study by ABI Research, cumulative global investment in smart grids will total over $45 billion in the next five years, as both governments and utilities repair, upgrade and transform their aging infrastructure. Much of the developed world relies on energy transmission technology and infrastructure that was built between 60 and 80
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The countdown for Monday’s launch of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket carrying five satellites, including a cartography one for land mapping and information, began Saturday at the rocket port Sriharikota. The 44-metre tall PSLV is a four-stage rocket powered by solid and liquid propellants alternatively. Read More
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
The grandaddy of online mapping sites is turning to an open source library for its cartography data. Mapquest, which is owned by AOL, launched a new beta site Friday that uses data from OpenStreetMap. So far, the OpenStreetMap data is only available on MapQuest for the United Kingdom and some of continental Europe, but MapQuest
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Google is to resume its Streetview mapping in towns and cities around Ireland after discussion with data privacy regulators. Google’s cars, equipped with cameras, low-level radar and GPS technology, will take to Irish roads again next week, snapping pictures of public roads. Google took the cars off the road in May and contacted data protection
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced their Gold Level Sponsorship for “Imagery at UC” at the upcoming 2010 ESRI International User Conference July 12-16 in San Diego, Calif. This year’s Imagery at UC conference track will focus on how imagery is core
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
ArcGIS Desktop users can now easily and quickly add demographic reports and data for the United States to their geographic information system (GIS) projects with Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) Reports Add-In. With it, users can create reports for their map layers and attach demographic data as attributes of those map layers for use in their
