Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
British Gas today unveiled version 2 of its iPhone meter reading application, which makes it even easier for customers to keep track of their energy bills, monitor their energy use over time and submit meter readings to avoid estimated bills. Almost 100,000 customers have downloaded the App since November when British Gas became the first
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
In 2010 IDTechEx find that the value of the entire RFID market will be $5.63 billion, up from $5.03 billion in 2009. This includes tags, readers and software/services for RFID cards, labels, fobs and all other form factors. In total, 2.31 billion tags will be sold this year, up from 1.98 billion in 2009. Most
Monday, July 12th, 2010
You have seen all those cool mapping applications, both on the desktop and on the web, and want to make some of your own nifty mapping applications. This workshop will give you all the tools you need to build a complete GIS and web mapping stack using a selection of free and open source tools.
Monday, July 12th, 2010
FARO, the world’s leading provider of portable measurement and imaging systems, is proud to announce that Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and FARO have signed an agreement for FARO to be the measurement system provider for the F1 racing team. Thanks to the new agreement FARO is now an ‘Official Supplier’ for measuring systems and became a
Monday, July 12th, 2010
Autodesk, Inc. and FARO announced their collaboration to add direct integration of point cloud data to AutoCAD 2011software. FARO and Autodesk have also entered into an agreement for FARO to promote AutoCAD Plant 3Dsoftware as its preferred 3D modelling application for the process plant industry. Read More
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
IODE – The value of standards is clearly demonstrable; we need only look to the manufacturing sector to see their value. In oceanography, there have been many discussions and solutions for processing data and information. Many useful ideas, each a solution to an immediate problem, have been developed and put into practice, but there have
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
LISAsoft is pleased to introduce its newest team member, Byron Cochrane, who is based in Auckland. LISAsoft sees opportunities for long-term growth and development within the New Zealand market. LISAsoft is involved in the creation and implementation of open standards through our relationship with the OGC, or Open Geospatial Consortium, which governs the standards for
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
This paper summarises the findings from the recent research and identifies the economic value of geospatial information in local public service delivery at regional and national level in 2009 and 2015, benefits of geospatial information and the current barriers and opportunities to making better use of the information. Read More
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information (EUROGI) has informed the European Public Sector Information platform on the latest developments made in the eSDI-NETplus project and released a press release titled: Spatial Data Infrastructures exchange experiences at the INSPIRE Conference 2010. “EUROGI announce that the final consortium meeting of eSDI-NETplus took place in Krakow in the week of
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
UK local authorities can now instantly pinpoint and contact all residents affected by road closures, floods or health hazards following the development of an innovative solution by GGP Systems. The company has combined computer mapping and property ID technology to create address lists allowing instant mail merges for notification or consultation letters and other direct communications. The
