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Friday, May 14th, 2010

European Earthquake Data Portal is Now Available

Thanks to a unique joint initiative by observatories, research institutes in and around Europe a broad set of seismological data is becoming available. Within NERIES, the seismic portal has been developed as a single point of access to diverse, distributed European datasets, and is now, after an experimental phase, available for general use at www.seismicportal.eu The

Friday, May 14th, 2010

gvSIG Workshop at FOSS4G

From 6th to 9th September, the FOSS4G will be held in Barcelona . In this event there will be a 3 hours gvSIG Workshop, (6th afternoon). All the information about the workshop is available on . There will also be a gvSIG Mobile and gvSIG Mini tutorial . Registration to the workshop as well as

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Small City Hits Big Homerun with GIS & Asset Management Software

The city of West Point, UT has recently expanded their GIS and work management software, reducing costs and increasing return on investment.   As one of the fastest growing cities in Utah, West Point adopted Elements Management Software by novotX in late 2006 to integrate their developing GIS with a work management package.  Top priorities

Friday, May 14th, 2010

FOREST EUROPE – Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe

Participants will learn about the contributions of the European forest policy process and what it is doing to achieve the 2010 Biodiversity targets. Other important aspects, such as the existing and potential role of sustainable forest management to meet the 2010 target and post-2010 strategy will be highlighted and discussed.

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Call – IEEE GRSS and ISPRS Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event

JURSE 2011 intends to be a unique forum for urban remote sensing with respect to the Information Technology and Geoscience community. A continuously increasing amount of multiple sensory data offers opportunities to address new questions and solve existing problems more effectively in urban remote sensing. To exploit the full potential these diverse data sources offer,

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Bentley Announces Availability of FAA-Compliant Data Model for Bentley Map V8i

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced the immediate availability of a Bentley Map V8i data model for airport information modeling that is compliant with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mapping guidelines. The new data model includes a comprehensive database schema, feature

Friday, May 14th, 2010

SierraSoft Introduces Topko CE Version 5.0 for Cadastral and Topographic Survey

SierraSoft has released Topko CE 5.0, software for field data collection that supports all the features and capabilities of the Ashtech ProMark 500 GNSS receiver. In a clear and foolproof way, Topko CE 5.0 manages the complete range of ProMark 500 capabilities, including receiver configuration, all surveying procedures, even the most complicated, such as localizations

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Funds for Canada’s GeoConnections Program

The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet. GeoConnections successfully delivered on its previous mandate to support CGDI users,

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Fugawi 2010 Edition Navionics Charts

Fugawi X-Traverse now has the complete line up of 2010 Edition Navionics Gold charts available for sale, including all international* charts. The award winning Navionics charts can be purchased for use with Mac OS X, iPhone or iPad. Read More

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Fugawi iPad Marine Navigation

With the recent release of iNavX™ version 3, boaters can now enjoy navigating using the power, speed and simplicity of the new Apple iPad. iNavX includes support for the NOAA RNC charts covering all of the United States Coastal Waters. Best of all, the iNavX Version 3 upgrade is free for existing iNavX users. Additional