Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
FORBES – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved the OpenGIS(R) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) Implementation Specification (a profile of the Web Map Service) and the related OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification. The OpenGIS(R) Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification defines an encoding that extends
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
MAEIL BUSINESS – Seoul Metropolitan Government is poised to introduce anti-mosquito system to exterminate mosquitoes in the city. An official from Seoul Government said on August 28, We plan to establish the DB system on major mosquito habitats that can be expressed upon the geographical information system (GIS) in order to remove mosquitoes from the city.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
HINDU BUSINESS LINE – Engineering and geospatial software development company Intergraph Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intergraph Corp, has expanded its team of software developers, certification teams and product support personnel in India. Full story
Monday, August 27th, 2007
EOPORTAL – The European Commission has published draft application guidelines for the 2007 call for proposals under the LIFE+ programme. LIFE+, the new Financial Instrument for the Environment, entered into force in June 2007. It comprises three components: “LIFE+ Nature & Biodiversity”, “LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance” and “LIFE+ Information & Communication”. GMES is explicitly
Thursday, August 16th, 2007
PRESS RELEASE — eSpatial, a global enterprise geospatial software and technology company in partnership with Geomatic Technologies (GT), one of Australia’s leading providers of location-based business intelligence solutions, information products and services, today announced the deployment of an advanced web editing pilot for the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) in Victoria, Australia. The TOE
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
At the July meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) in Paris, France, Charles Roswell received an OGC Lifetime Achievement Award, the first ever granted by the OGC. Charles Roswell has been an active participant in the OGC from the Consortium’s beginning. Through his decades of experience in geospatial standards in the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Wallingford Software, the leading developer of hydraulic modeling software for the water industry, has announced the forthcoming release of InfoWorks 2D for fast, accurate and detailed surface flood modeling. InfoWorks 2D will be available as a fully-integrated module within InfoWorks CS for collection system modeling, InfoWorks SD for storm drainage modeling, and with InfoWorks RS
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
With the Help of MicroStation VBA Macros and GEOPAK, AAMHatch Generated in Minutes What Would Have Taken 400 Hours Using Manual Plotting AAMHatch, a leading dedicated spatial information provider, has won a 2007 BE Award in the “Geospatial 3D GIS” category for its development of a true orthophoto and 3D model of the City of
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging and IONIC announce their silver sponsorships at Map Asia, August 14-16, 2007 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Individuals from both Leica Geosystems and recently acquired IONIC are keynote speakers at the conference. Brad Skelton, CTO, Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging is presenting “Image Exploitation for the Enterprise.” Vincent
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
Intermap Technologies Corp. has signed an agreement with the Slovak Hydro-Meteorological Institute (SHMU) in Bratislava for the cooperative development of a windstorm evaluation and risk management tool that will complement the Company’s existing risk management platform. Intermap’s insurance risk management platform includes a detailed flood risk map of the Slovak Republic that has been successfully utilized
