-->
Friday, May 14th, 2010
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 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
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
Friday, May 14th, 2010
The Sustainability Curriculum Framework provides information and guidance on how education for sustainability may be effectively incorporated into school curriculum from Kindergarten to Year 10. Its use is intended for school curriculum developers and policy makers at national, state and territory levels (and indirectly, all who utilize curricula in learning environments). Read More
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
ESRI Canada today presented an Award of Excellence to the City of Kamloops for improving access to municipal geographic data and imagery and enhancing public services using ESRI’s geographic information systems (GIS). The award, which recognizes organizations and individuals for their outstanding achievements in the application of GIS, was presented at the 2010 ESRI Canada
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
The British Geological Survey (BGS) ushers in a new era of geologic mapping services with the launch of its OpenGeoscience Web site, built on ESRI’s ArcGIS technology. The Web site is the world’s first Web map service built on vector data serving attributed geologic data for an entire country. Built on ArcGIS Server, OpenGeoscience enables
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Last year, the boards of The American Institute of Architects and the U.S. Green Building Council established a Joint Task Force to explore how our organizations could work more closely together to advance our respective missions and give stronger voice to our shared values. The desire to use our interdependence as a catalyst for stronger
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
May 5, 2010 (Rome, Italy) – It was an historic moment set in a 17th century opera house in Trento, Italy. What started last fall as an idea during World Green Building Day, culminated with representatives from both the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Green Building Council Italia (GBC Italia) signing a Memorandum of
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
On 11 May 2010, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) launched a Policy Brief with the title “Making African Forests Fit for Climate Change: A regional View of Climate-Change Impacts on Forests and People and Options for Adaptation”, at the current fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
In November 2007, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) asked editors from a number of online publications to help with an industry survey on data quality. This was possibly one of the largest industry surveys of its kind, eliciting more than 750 responses from across the world. The information provided was subsequently used for a conference
