Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Getmapping’s ‘WMS’ (Web Mapping Service) service is being used by Vtesse Networks to plan its optical fibre networking solutions. Getmapping aerial photography is streamed via a WMS feed over the Internet directly into Vtesse’s planning and asset management tool. Increasingly popular, WMS provides an efficient and cost effective way for organisations to access large
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
International Land Systems (ILS), Inc. has entered into a three-year World Bank-funded contract to encourage private sector growth by improving the country’s land administration systems. The Private Sector Competitiveness Project (PSCPII) aims to assist the Government of Uganda in eradicating the primary constraints preventing the international competitiveness of Uganda’s private sector. Fundamental to achieving this
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Location influences most, if not all, business behaviour and outcomes, making its applicability almost universal. According to Ovum, 80% of enterprise data contains a geospatial element. So why is it that many organisations are not fully realising the value behind location-based information as a basis for better decision making? 1Spatial would like to invite you to
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Critigen, a global technology consultancy, announced it has aligned with the leaders in the geospatial industry, becoming a Platinum Tier Partner with Esri and creating an expanded business partner agreement with Trimble, including support of Trimble Utility Field Solutions and initiatives in the utility industry. “Product interoperability and service delivery are going to be critical
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The next meeting of the Symphony User Group, which is a biannual meeting held by users of Aligned Assets’ Symphony products, is scheduled to be held at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton on 23rd September 2010. This meeting, in addition to best practice, case studies and new product demonstrations will see the users taking
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
The City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is taking advantage of Esri’s enterprise license agreement (ELA) program to supply more departments and government workers with geographic information system (GIS) software. As a result, many city departments are now building and sharing their data, applications, and services. The new GIS applications and data help the city work more effectively
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
Ron Beck, a scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey Land Remote Sensing Program, will discuss the ways in which satellite observations are documenting dramatic changes in Earth’s surface features in a public lecture on Thursday, July 29. From detecting shifting patterns of land use and the harvesting of natural resources to examining the effects of
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
DigitalGlobe today announced the DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge, a contest designed to encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution imagery can enhance image analysis and classification research. The 8-band data is unique in the marketplace to DigitalGlobe, as a result of the newest commercial satellite WorldView-2 launched in October of 2009. The call for proposals
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Thousands of hectares of fragile mountainous forest in north-eastern Tanzania have been preserved through a recently completed seven-year biodiversity project managed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Eastern Arc Mountains project, financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was concluded last month after an independent evaluation reported that at least 10,000 hectares of
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Paperless Trail Inc., a leading Philippines based digital mapping & GIS applications developer, recently unveiled Business Mapper a tool that helps businesses visualize location of their customers, saturation, supply chain and other location sensitive operations or activities. Read More
