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...
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
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...
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...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Offering the largest collection capacities and the quickest return time to any place on earth, the RapidEye constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites is extremely well suited to image countries involved in the REDD and REDD+...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
IIC is pleased to announce the award of a contract from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for the production of 50 paper chart masters using Citrix technology and CARIS HPD. The production work will continue until mid-2012...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
The New Zealand Geospatial Strategy, published in January 2007, aims to better coordinate and manage the use of New Zealand's geospatial resources across all tiers of society. It addresses the increasing reliance on geospatial information in New...
