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Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Google to Resume Street Mapping After Privacy Talks

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 Announces Gold Level Sponsorship for “Imagery at UC”

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

Easily Add Demographic Reports and Data to ArcGIS

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

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Ashtech Announces MB 100, Compact Dual Frequency GNSS OEM Board

Ashtech® today announced the MB 100 GNSS Board, the world’s most compact dual frequency RTK OEM board. Designed for demanding applications, MB 100 is the only RTK capable board designed to address equally well L1 GPS+SBAS standard applications, L1/L2 GPS+SBAS and L1 GPS/GLONASS + SBAS applications in the smallest form factor and power consumption ever. 

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

REDD+ in Dryland Forests

REDD+ in dryland forests: Issues and prospects for pro-poor REDD in the miombo woodlands of southern Africa. Implementing REDD+ programs involves providing sufficient incentives to land users and requires a supportive policy, legal and institutional environment. Community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) in the miombo ecoregion of east and southern Africa has addressed these issues in

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

ArchiCAD 14 Italian Version Released

The Italian version is the sixth of 26 local versions in ArchiCAD 14’s global release schedule,and follows the release of the International, German, Austrian, New Zealand, and USversions. All local versions are planned to reach the market by the end of Q3 2010.For more information about the Italian version, please visit http://www.cigraph.it/cigraph/index.jsp.

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Esri Offers Flexible Licensing for ArcGIS Server in the Cloud

Esri offers a new, easier way to deploy ArcGIS Server called ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure, a preconfigured deployment of ArcGIS Server in a cloud environment. Users can license ArcGIS Server with Cloud Infrastructure for 1, 3, or 12 months and renew their licenses indefinitely without incurring added costs or paying maintenance fees. There’s no need

Friday, July 9th, 2010

TerraGo Showcases GeoPDFR Solutions for Geospatial Collaboration at the 2010 ESRI International User Conference

TerraGo Technologies will demonstrate its latest software for creating and interacting with TerraGo GeoPDF® maps and imagery, including 3D GeoPDF assets, in booth 2825 at the ESRI 2010 International User Conference in San Diego, Ca., from July 13-15. At the conference, TerraGo will host the GeoPDF Users Special Interest Group Meeting at 2 p.m. on

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Geosparc Unveils Suite of Commercial Licenses for Geomajas

Geosparc, the company commercially supporting the open source GIS application framework Geomajas, today unveiled a new suite of commercial licenses as part of an expanded strategy targeted at providing the Geomajas technology to companies that want to build commercial applications with it or that want to buy a license to use the technology for internal

Friday, July 9th, 2010

ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 (Beta) Available for Download

Esri’s new ArcGIS Viewer for Flex 2.0 (beta) can now be downloaded at no cost on the ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Resource Center Web page. The ArcGIS Viewer for Flex is a ready-to-use, configurable Web mapping application built on the ArcGIS API for Flex 2.0. Users can easily customize the look and feel of the viewer,