Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The need for citizen self-services and increased transparency, combined with reduction around costs and inefficiency are driving wider mainstream adoption of location-based data, and fuelling the appetite for geospatial data on-demand in the UK public sector, according to Pitney Bowes Business Insight, the leading global provider of location intelligence, data management and customer communication management solutions.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The advantages of an interactive digital workflow for GIS mapping are attracting new users in applications as diverse as emergency response, agriculture, volcanic analysis and water resource management. Until recently, users have relied on paper maps. The desire for greater speed and accuracy, easier editing, more flexibility and collaborative features is driving a shift from
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
RapidEye announced today that MDA Geospatial Services Inc. (MDA GSI), a subsidiary of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed a contractual agreement with RapidEye to be one of its data distributors in Canada. Learn More
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
The Region of Veneto in Italy has completed the first phase of its spatial infrastructure built on Intergraph® spatial data infrastructure (SDI) technology and will now implement phase two of the project. The SDI project will improve access to spatial data across the region for streamlined operations and enhanced collaboration.The first phase focused on the
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
GeoVation, the geography innovation awards programme now in its second year, has announced a prize fund of £25,000 to support the development of winning ideas. This year the Ordnance Survey-backed initiative is asking entrepreneurs, developers and community groups to focus their efforts on using geography to address three distinct challenges. The first is around the
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
OSIL are please to be able to offer demonstrations of the innovative new YSI CastAway, an effortless and powerful profiler that gives oceanographers, hydrologists, and surveyors the ability to instantaneously view profiles of temperature, salinity, and sound speed from any dock, bridge, or boat. This compact handheld CTD is the first of its kind.
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Semiconductor manufacturer Integrated Device Technology, Inc. has unveiled its first product for the smart grid industry: metering integrated circuits (ICs) for smart meters. The new IDT solutions improve the performance of smart meters. Read More
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
CoreLogic announced that their ParcelPoint® parcel database will be available through ArcGIS Online, an Internet-based system for using geographic information. CoreLogic, an industry leader in spatial and natural hazard risk solutions, has converted digital and paper maps, as well as legal descriptions, from most of the nation’s counties into a single standardized spatial database called ParcelPoint.
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
With the economic growth and technological advancement, to build transport network infrastructure is an important issue and development goal in developing countries. In Taiwan, to facilitate citizens to gain complete and accurate traffic information in real time, the government actively planned, developed and constructed the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). However, the city/county governments and related
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In coordination with Digital Map Products (DMP), developers can now easily overlay over 100 million US parcels to more easily identify boundaries between properties. Using a simple, native method in Bing Maps and DMP’s ParcelStream API with just 7 lines of code (yes, SEVEN) you can tap into this wonderful trove of parcel information. So,
