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Friday, July 16th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Original Accessories – a Transparent Choice for Reliable and Secure Measurement Data

Accessories are an integral part of modern measurement systems. Leica Geosystems has modernized and updated supportive information of its accessories basket for TPS and GNSS measurement systems. The customers’ benefit is a transparent choice of high quality accessories that meet their individual requirements. Read More  

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The Power of Business Analyst Online Now Available on the iPhone

The new, free BAO for iOS app, available for download from the Apple app store, provides access to 2010 demographic and business data and analysis from Esri Business Analyst Online (BAO) on the go. BAO delivers powerful market analyses through a Web browser. Users generate on-demand reports and maps to get a detailed, comprehensive view

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

GeoEye Announces NextView Service Level Agreement Extension

GeoEye, Inc., a premier provider of superior satellite and aerial-based geospatial information and services, announced today that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has exercised the second of its monthly options to extend its Service Level Agreement with GeoEye. This option becomes effective Aug. 1, 2010, and runs through Aug. 31, 2010. This option is the

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 WMS v1.1.1 Certified

Autodesk has announced that MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 have been certified as compliant with the the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) v1.1.1. Read More

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

The REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE)

The REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities and for assessing critical constraints to project development, especially those associated with the legal, political, and institutional framework for carbon finance.  The ROSE tool was developed and refined during 2009 in the course of conducting case studies in

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

National Traffic Information System in Taiwan

With the economic growth and technological advancement, to build transport network infrastructure is an important issue and development goal in developing countries. In Taiwan, to facilitate citizens to gain complete and accurate traffic information in real time, the government actively planned, developed and constructed the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). However, the city/county governments and related

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Autodesk Brings Proven Plant Design Products Together with Release of Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2011

Autodesk, Inc.today announced the availability of Autodesk Plant Design Suite 2011, a new software suite for plant designers who need powerful plant design and whole-project review capabilities in a single integrated package. Autodesk Plant Design Suite combines AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD P&ID 2011, AutoCAD Plant 3D 2011, and Autodesk Navisworks 2011 software to provide a powerful

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Special Achievement in GIS Award Winners Honored at Esri International User Conference

More than 150 organizations were selected from approximately 300,000 to receive a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award in a special ceremony today at the 30th Annual Esri International User Conference (Esri UC). The winning organizations received this honor for their vision, leadership, hard work, and innovative use of Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology. “We

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

BroadMap Unveils Newly Enhanced Website

BroadMap is proud to announce the launching of their new website. BroadMap, a leading provider of geospatial solutions, is an emerging, innovative, strategic and results-oriented full-service GIS company specializing in providing government, non-profit and commercial business partners with custom-fit, turnkey geospatial solutions. BroadMap’s new website represents a complete redesign of the user interface in order

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Overlaying Parcel Boundaries on Bing Maps

In coordination with Digital Map Products (DMP), developers can now easily overlay over 100 million US parcels to more easily identify boundaries between properties. Using a simple, native method in Bing Maps and DMP’s ParcelStream API with just 7 lines of code (yes, SEVEN) you can tap into this wonderful trove of parcel information. So,