Thursday, December 8th, 2011
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC?) seeks public comment on the candidate OGC Gazetteer Best Practices Document. There is growing interest in the development of a common feature-based model for geographic names databases, often referred to as gazetteers. This candidate OGC best...
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
GIS data is being implemented in hundreds of ways by dozens of industries. Having the necessary data inputs is fundamental to performing tasks successfully and accurately. As most GIS users can attest to, obtaining geographic data in foreign...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
RapidEye announced today that it has signed a contract with China’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) to cover almost five million square kilometers of China over the next few months. This is the third consecutive year that RapidEye was a...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication on the global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every three to five years, and targeted...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
FARO announce the results of the integration tests of the FARO Edge measuring arm and the PolyWorks V12 software. On 30th September 2011, Duwe-3d AG made tests in their centre of excellence for 3D metrology in Lindau, extensively examining...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Mipela GeoSolutions is opening a new office in Melbourne on Monday 9th January 2012. This is in line with one of the company’s “Twenty14 Strategic Plan” key objectives of expanding geographical presence. The Melbourne office has been opened to...
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
The Russian head of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media Igor Schegolev announced that a significant number of mobile device producers have started using GLONASS-enabled navigational chips, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes. Quote "Two navigational systems are better...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Nokia has demonstrated a new indoor 3D mapping system that might change the way people navigate in inside a building, a mall or airport. According to an article on Into Mobile, even as Google tries to introduce...