Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Crowdsourcing involves the data capture and collection efforts of many people who each contribute a smaller piece to a larger geospatial data and geoinformation puzzle. OpenStreetMap is perhaps the most well-known crowdsourcing project internationally, and serves to...
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®), as part of its lead role in the Architecture Implementation Pilot for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), announced videos showing the remarkable progress that has been made in implementing...
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Online Open Street and Cycle mapping - use free open mapping, giving worldwide coverage. Unlike premium mapping, these maps are downloaded automatically as you need them. They are then cached on the iPhone or iPad, so only...
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to...
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Trimble ConstructJob is Trimble's next step in providing interoperable hardware and software solutions for the building construction industry. With a broad range of CAD, estimating and fabrication solutions from its Accubid and QuickPen Divisions, Trimble can now...
Friday, November 5th, 2010
GeoExpress 8, which enables geospatial professionals to compress and manipulate satellite and aerial imagery, introduces the MrSID Generation 4 (MG4) format for compression of raster data, adding support for multispectral data, alpha channels and improved mosaicking. With...
Friday, November 5th, 2010
The recently released Esri Business Analyst Server 10 improves collaboration and facilitates sharing of business models and analyses across the enterprise. Business Analyst Server combines geographic information system (GIS) server technology with extensive business, updated demographic, and...
Friday, October 29th, 2010
The idea of Virtual Australia is to build a fully interoperable interactive 3D photo-realistic simulation of the natural and built environment on all scales down to 2cm, including internal spaces and...
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
The 20th century electricity network was not designed for our 21st century Wii and plasma TV lifestyle and the expectation of uninterrupted power for our computers.With more extreme summer temperatures, houses without eaves that are locked up...
