Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Be Together: The Bentley User Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced at this annual gathering of infrastructure professionals that its V8iSELECTseries portfolio of multidisciplinary, interoperable software to design, build, and operate infrastructure fully exploits Microsoft Windows 7 functionality. This means Windows 7 users can most
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
Is there a good place to develop wave energy in Oregon’s 3-mile swath of the Pacific? State planners are developing a series of maps that they hope will reveal places in the territorial sea that aren’t vital to the fishing or shipping industries, or sensitive marine species, or surfers, or oceanographic research, or undersea transmission cables
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Be Together: The Bentley User Conference – May 24, 2011 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today announced at this annual gathering of infrastructure professionals that it is extending its ProjectWise V8i synchronized collaboration and Bentley Navigator V8i review and markup capabilities to users of
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The recent news that the US federal government is looking to purchase cloud-based services with an estimated value of US$2.5 billion should be enough evidence to change the mind of anyone who still thinks that the cloud will float by. Moving data, software and services to the cloud is happening and the pace of this
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is once again awarding a special topic prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. This year, DLR would like to see “Augmented Navigation – Everywhere”. Hence, it is looking for ideas that use the satellite navigation augmentation system EGNOS or multi-sensor systems to improve positioning. The entrant with the best
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in customer data, analytics and communication software and services, today announced the launch of Flood Risk Pro, a new Risk Data Suite™ bundle. This new product will enable National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Excess Flood coverage insurers to build up-to-date flood risk information into their underwriting processes.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Today, Esri announces its first release of Census 2010 data. This release includes not only Census 2010 Redistricting data, but also updated 2010 geographic boundaries. Census 2010 data is available immediately from Esri in reports, dynamic color-coded maps, Smart Map Search, and in geographies that are not available from the Census Bureau.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Google Maps is ideal for vehicular navigation, but less so for exploring the great outdoors on foot. It’s justly popular as a Geographical Information System (GIS) with which you can publish maps with places of interest superimposed as pushpins, but the setup isn’t as flexible as it might be.f you want to display multiple points
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Leica Geosystems Germany started its own GNSS Network RTK service on April 1st. SmartNet Germany is based on a close partnership between SAPOS , the service of Surveying Authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany and Leica Geosystems GmbH Vertrieb. The new GNSS Network service uses high quality data and coordinates provided by SAPOS® reference stations itself.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Since November 2010, Blom UK have owned and operated the Optech ALTM 3033 LiDAR previously owned by Cambridge University’s Unit for Landscape Modelling. The instrument previously flown by the Unit was purchased by Blom UK as the university no longer wished to capture its own LiDAR data. Specifically optimised with full waveform digitisation for data
