Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Esri expands the power of geoportals with the release of the ArcGIS Server 10 Geoportal extension. The extension allows organizations to quickly set up Web sites, called geoportals that help them manage and share their geospatial information externally with the public or internally with employees. Learn More
Monday, September 13th, 2010
The establishment of Natura 2000 and the new transboundary EU approach for protected sites management has enforced the link between nature conservation and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable and accessible EU harmonised datasets. The link is also addressed by the INSPIRE Directive which pursues an EU Spatial Data Infrastructure to support environmental
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Binary loads of Ingres 10.1 with geospatial support are now available. This software is licensed under the GPL license version 2. A brief video introducing this software is available. Read More
Monday, September 13th, 2010
FMS, Inc., an In-Q-Tel portfolio company, has released Version 4.5 of its Sentinel Visualizer data visualization and link analysis software. Originally released in 2005, Sentinel Visualizer offers link charts, social network analysis, geospatial mapping, and the examination of timelines based on a user-customizable knowledgebase. The Professional and Premium Editions of Sentinel 4.5 now provide integration
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Adobe Systems has released an add-on package for its Illustrator CS5 design editor that will allow developers to export their designs to the Web and mobile platforms, using the emerging HTML5 set of Web formats. With these capabilities, designers can build out a visual display once and export it to multiple platforms, such as Web pages,
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company is pleased to announce the introduction of a best in class certification of precision Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) enabled glide path capability on the Bell 429. Th Bell 429 is the only helicopter available in the market with this technology certified for 9 degree localizer precision
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
This year I was enough lucky to have the possibility to attend at the FOSS4G World conference in Barcelona (thanks to my company for having send me there!) – that has been run just this week, as many of you may already know. I just came back home yesterday night and until my impression are
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
FWS – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses data standards to increase the quality and compatibility of its data. This approach increases the opportunity to share data and reduce incidents of redundant data development. Read More
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
EUROGEOGRAPHICS – The European Commission has the intention to set up a consultative group of GNSS (Global Satellite Navigation System) experts called the Mission Evolution Advisory Group (MEAG). The primary task of this group of experts is to provide recommendations on potential evolutions of the mission objectives and the service definitions for the European satellite navigation programmes Galileo and