Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
An author-mountaineer from New Zealand has successfully completed a 2,300-kilometer journey along North Korea’s portion of the Baekdu-Daegan mountain range, documenting the trip for an upcoming book that will offer a rare glimpse of stunning scenery. Roger Shepherd,...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Pasco Corp., Japan’s largest provider of digital maps, plans to buy companies overseas because of the near-record high yen and surging demand in emerging markets caused by construction booms. “We welcome the strong yen,” President Youichi Sugimoto said...
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
During the opening address at the GIS Conference Dr. Russell Howorth said every effort would be made to ensure that Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing are adequately resourced to serve the needs of the Pacific...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The State Committee for Property Affairs of Azerbaijan is satisfied with GFA/GCI consortium’s work fulfilled by Germany’s KfW order within the concept phase of Real Estate Registration & Cadastre Project in Azerbaijan. In particular, it helped clarify...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council is considering a report on ways to improve the water quality in Lake Rotorua. The consultant's report covers potential land management and land use changes in the Lake Rotorua catchment in a...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
A GPS-based technology which will alert train drivers about an approaching signal during foggy weather conditions will be installed in all passenger and freight trains in Delhi division from the end of this month. The 'fog safe...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Be it airports, Metro, rail or road, the UAE is assembling a world-class transport system to rival any country in the world. A country that once had no airline of its own, or a railway system, or an...
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
A Queensland irrigator says he still doesn't believe the state's irrigation systems are over-allocated. The comments come ahead of next Monday's long-awaited release of the Murray Darling Basin Plan. Figures leaked recently show the Queensland in-stream environmental water requirement...
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
PoliScanspeed is a LIDAR speed enforcement solution that is in use in many countries worldwide, among these numerous countries in the Middle East region. Successful speed enforcement with VITRONIC technology is conducted in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and...
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
This week I am working on a model to map out civic actions in China. I borrowed models on social movements in the field of political science and added one dimension, the level of centralization of the...
