Sunday, July 11th, 2010
LISAsoft is pleased to introduce its newest team member, Byron Cochrane, who is based in Auckland. LISAsoft sees opportunities for long-term growth and development within the New Zealand market. LISAsoft is involved in the creation and implementation of open standards through our relationship with the OGC, or Open Geospatial Consortium, which governs the standards for
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
This paper summarises the findings from the recent research and identifies the economic value of geospatial information in local public service delivery at regional and national level in 2009 and 2015, benefits of geospatial information and the current barriers and opportunities to making better use of the information. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Esri has released a new, no-cost add-on for ArcGIS 10 that allows ArcGIS users to contribute data, using the editing capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop, to OpenStreetMap. Volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as that available from OpenStreetMap, is playing an increasingly significant role in emergency response during crises like the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of
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
