Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Blom UK has announced further benefits through the company’s unique cost-effective and time-saving suite of tools packaged in the recently-launched BlomMETRO technology. The complexities of data capture, especially whilst captured in a high speed, high altitude environment, provides many challenges. Combined with an economic austerity, Blom UK launched the unique package combined within the BlomMETRO suite, to
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Getmapping has supplied Enfield Council with 2011 aerial photography of the whole of this busy London borough. The photography was captured using a Vexcel digital camera at very high resolution from a height of 2,500 feet which requires special permission from Air Traffic Control. The imagery delivers a ground sampled distance (GSD) of 5cm per
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Autodesk, Inc. announced several new features to be added to the next release of AutoCAD WS, a free* web and mobile application that enables users to view, edit and share AutoCAD projects across desktop, web and mobile devices. AutoCAD WS users will have access to 3D interactive features, including the ability to work with 3D
Monday, November 28th, 2011
Optech Incorporated, the world’s leading manufacturer of advanced lidar survey instruments, is pleased to announce the full release of their new software package, Optech LMS Lidar Mapping Suite, for their Lynx Mobile Mapper clients. Optech LMS offers Lynx clients an all-new workflow designed specifically for high-volume production processing. Incorporating a fully-automated batch-mode capability, Optech LMS
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The City of Whitehorse maintained separate databases for financial and asset information with some GIS data stored on a few computer desktops. Extracting mapping data was manually intensive and limited to a few users. Pacific Alliance developed an ESRI platform interface to access financial and asset data sets; it was designed with ArcGIS for Microsoft Silverlight. Integrated
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Society has long learned to accept fire as one of the many risks to life and property that simply must be effectively managed. Improved fire detection and protection systems, tougher construction codes, more extensive safety standards and more sensitive planning have all helped reduce the threat over recent years. But better ways still need to be found, not only
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
ROUTE 66, a pioneer in mobile mapping and navigation solutions for smartphones and tablets, today announces the release of ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation in Android Market, offering Android users worldwide a feature-packed new mapping and navigation app utilizing the latest maps with 3D enhanced location content and Follow Me Augmented Reality Navigation. “ROUTE 66 Maps
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Environics Analytics (EA) has named Esri Canada as its partner of the year, making the announcement at its Fifth Annual User Conference held on November 16 at the Toronto Board of Trade. Esri Canada was recognized for its long-time support and recent collaboration embedding a bundle of EA datasets—including PRIZMC2, Demographic Estimates and Projections, HouseholdSpend
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Factors impacting location decisions are increasingly more than just a real estate decision. The focus should be on the right decision, through analysis of a multitude of information, of which Location is a huge part. Wayne Gearey, Senior Vice President for Jones Lang LaSalle shares his insight into the best practices for implementing open data and location data in an accurate and
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
digital-earth.eu, the European Centre for Learning and Teaching with Geo-Media, will present its activities at the Media & Learning 2011 conference in Brussels on November 24, 2011. Latest developments, services and uses of media in education and training will be introduced and discussed among policy makers and practitioners in order to help identify policies, initiatives
