Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR — Safe Software, the leaders in spatial ETL (extract, transform and load) announced today that the City of Göteborg, the second-largest city in Sweden, has chosen FME Server to power the exchange of its geospatial data throughout its various departments. The project is part of an initiative in which the City and its surrounding
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR — The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO) came into official being on August 4, 2008. Representatives of the eleven founding member organizations met at the ESRI Users’ Conference in San Diego and voted unanimously to approve a set of Rules of Operation and Procedure that brought COGO into existence. Several attended via conference call
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR – GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, announced today it is partnering with ACCIONA, a world leader in wind farm development, and is investing $141 million in the Tatanka Wind Farm on the North Dakota-South Dakota border. The transaction represents the GE unit’s first wind equity investment in the Dakotas and the
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR – The Khronos™ Group announced today it has released the OpenGL® 3.0 specification with strong industry support to bring significant new functionality to the open, cross-platform standard for 3D graphics acceleration. OpenGL 3.0 includes GLSL™ 1.30, a new version of the OpenGL shading language, and provides comprehensive access to the functionality of the latest
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR – Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of 3D Geo GmbH, a privately held maker of intelligent 3D urban models software, based in Potsdam, Germany. 3D Geo offers software and services for geo-visualization: solutions for effectively creating, analyzing, managing, and distributing large-scale geo
Monday, August 11th, 2008
PR – ETH Zurich today announc ed a five-year research and development initiative with The Walt Disney Company in the United States. The Disney Research lab in Zurich will be one of only two newly-created industrial laboratories worldwide. Its mission will be to conduct basic applied research and share technical resources including geometric modelling.
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
PR — Spatial Insights is pleased to announce the availability of the AGS Estimates & Projections 2008/2013 demographic data for the US. Newly updated with current year estimates and 5- and 10-year projections, the extensive database developed and maintained by Applied Geographic Solutions (AGS) boasts thousands of demographic attributes for both census and postal geographic
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
PR – The report shows that road transport remains the single main source of nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs), and the second-most important source of fine particulate emissions (PM10 and PM2.5) in the EU-27. This report contains essential data that helps understand the evolution of air pollutant emissions
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
PR – The Olympic TV Transmission Tower that will broadcast the signal of the Olympic Games to the world was designed by local Chinese architects in just three months to meet the final Olympic preparation rush.
Friday, August 8th, 2008
PR – Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, today announced that Canada has completed an important step in mapping Canada’s Arctic’s undersea continental shelf. Canadian representatives attending the 2008 International Geological Congress in Oslo, Norway, will present findings to the global scientific community this weekend on joint Canadian-Danish surveys about the natural extent of
