Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
PR – GeoBase and the Canadian Land Cover Community of Practice have embarked on the National Land Cover Data project, whose main objective is to integrate Land Cover mapping from provincial and federal organizations and to produce a harmonized data base that is consistent with international standards, in order to meet the broadest range of
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
PR – Astrium today announced that it has entered into a joint-venture with the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC), the Catalan official mapping agency, and Hisdesat, a space services provider, to create Infoterra Servicios de Geoinformación SA (Infoterra SGSA).
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
PR – MapFrame Corporation today announced that PPL Electric Utilities will implement MapFrame’s FieldSmart® View, FieldSmart® Route, and Field Flow Manager™ to fulfill their mobile mapping and field automation requirements. MapFrame will compress and extend PPL Electric Utilities’ ESRI GIS throughout the enterprise and work seamlessly with the Ventyx (formerly MDSI) mobile work force management
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
PR – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard. CityGML is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
PR – GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies, part of GE Enterprise Solutions, opened its first dedicated calibration, repair and training service centre in Abu Dhabi today at the CERT Technology Park. Nabil Habayeb, President and CEO of GE, Middle East and Africa opened the service and training facility in the presence of Tim Povall, Global
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
PR — Work is underway by Fugro EarthData, Inc., to acquire color airborne imagery at a 6-inch pixel resolution over Effingham and Chatham Counties in Southeast Georgia. Organized by regional stakeholders to secure updated, high-accuracy orthoimagery and ancillary mapping products, the project is being performed under two separate contracts – one awarded directly by Effingham
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
PR – Pitney Bowes MapInfo, part of Pitney Bowes Inc., today announces the appointment of Jonathan Clark to EMEA Strategic Industry Manager for the retail industry, based at Pitney Bowes MapInfo in Windsor.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
PR – Magellan today introduced the latest addition to its MobileMapper GIS and mapping line of products – the MobileMapper 6. A rugged, waterproof, handheld GPS/GIS receiver, the MobileMapper 6 fulfills the requirements for low-cost, professional GIS field data collection.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
PR – Magellan, the originator of GPS + GLONASS™ GNSS signal processing is this month introducing the ProMark 500, a dual-frequency GNSS receiver that processes GPS, GLONASS and SBAS signals to offer land surveyors fast, real-time centimeter-level accurate surveying.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Pitney Bowes MapInfo has been selected as a Catalist supplier on OGCbuying.solutions’ Geographic Information Services and Systems framework agreement, which was awarded this month.
