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Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Presentations Invited for URISA’s Fifth Caribbean GIS Conference in Trinidad

Abstract submissions are now being accepted for URISA’s Fifth Caribbean GIS Conference. The conference, themed “Geospatial Technologies: Connecting our Industries in Meeting the Region’s Challenges,” will take place December 6-10, 2010 in Trinidad. Abstract submissions are due on or before August 20, 2010. Learn More

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Compagnie du Vent Form 12 New Proposals

LE FIGARO – La Compagnie du Vent, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, is to initiate a major project offshore wind farm off the coast of alabaster and Picardy to 14 km offshore Tréport.This ambitious project, which has no equal in Europe, would emerge in the scenario preferred by the client says “Large Project”, a fleet

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

CityCAD 2.0 Released!

Holistic City Software is pleased to announce the release of CityCAD 2.0 – a major new upgrade to their conceptual urban masterplanning CAD application.CityCAD was created for city masterplanners who are frustrated by constantly recalculating large quantities of data every time a masterplan design is changed during the design process.It is an easy-to-use CAD application

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Second draft of Technical Guidance on Schema Transformation Network Service Published

1Spatial is pleased to announce that the Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published the second draft of the Technical Guidance for Schema Transformation Network Service (TNS) for community review and comment.   The Technical Guidance constitutes the main deliverable within the scope of work for the EC JRC Contract Notice 2009/S 107-153973, as awarded to

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Professor Taroh Matsuno Wins the IMO Prize

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has awarded its most prestigious Prize and honoured several distinguished scientists at the annual meeting of its Executive Council.  These scientists have made outstanding contributions in the field of meteorology, climatology, hydrology and related sciences. Read More

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Northern Pulp creates Nova Scotia Forest Research Program

Northern Pulp Nova Scotia is creating a new Forest Research Program in the province. Northern Pulp’s initiative and $1 million investment over five years will drive research to study the impacts of current forest management practices and help shape and improve forest management strategies in the future. Read More

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Trimble Empowers Gulf Region to Map the Oil Spill with New Mobile App

Trimble announced today the launch of Map the Spill, a mobile app and Website that empowers Gulf Coast residents and the public to report on the oil spill. Map the Spill allows those directly and indirectly impacted by the spill to capture and chronicle what they see happening to the land, sea and wildlife in

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

GSDI Small Grants Program Recipients

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association together with the manpower and financial support of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is dedicated to international cooperation and collaboration in support of local, national, and international spatial data infrastructure developments that would allow nations to better address social, economic, and environmental issues of pressing importance.

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Slam Dunk – Water System Saves Big Money with ‘Elements’ GIS

Bountiful Irrigation has recently expanded their GIS-based asset management software to include real-time mobile access and dynamic web-based data forms.   Serving over 12,000 households, Bountiful Irrigation has been using Elements Management Software as their GIS-based work and asset management solution since the product was initially released in 2006.   Until recently, Bountiful has used the

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

SuperGeo Announces Exclusive Partnership with Cody Corporation in Oceania

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, today announces its new partnership in Oceania, where Cody Corporation will distribute SuperGIS series software exclusively in Australia and New Zealand. Since 1981, Cody Corporation has established a strong distributing network for the Surveying and GIS/GPS market, by reselling rugged handheld computers, total