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Monday, January 30th, 2012

IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012

Information has been central to IUFRO’s brief since its foundation in the nineteenth century, and it has maintained a specialist research group dealing with information in various forms for well over a century. Following the latest re-organisation,...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Yandex Chooses NAVTEQ Data To Support Online Location Services

NAVTEQ has been selected to supply map data to Yandex, Russia’s premier internet company. The current agreement gives Yandex access to NAVTEQ global map data for use on any Yandex domains around the world with highly detailed NAVTEQ...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Compression-Based Tools for Navigation with an Image Database

We present tools that can be used within a larger system referred to as a passive assistant. The system receives information from a mobile device, as well as information from an image database such as Google Street View, and...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Vietnam – 30 Major Transport Projects By Year End

The Transport Ministry is targeting the completion of more than 30 major projects this year to make a milestone in transport infrastructure development. Last year, hundreds of projects were delayed due to the Government's public investment cutting...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

GeoCart’2012 and ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop – 1st Call For Papers

The sixth National Cartographic Conference GeoCart'2012 and the second ICA RegionalSymposium on Cartography for Australasia and Oceania will convene in Auckland, 29-31 August 2012. It will be held at the outstanding facilities of The University of Auckland in the City of Sails -...

Monday, January 30th, 2012

New Web Mapping Application Tool Launched – Our Environment

Our Environment is a new web mapping tool which provides easy access to information on New Zealand’s land environments and land resources. Based on “Google Maps” style navigation the mapping tool makes it easy to search, view...

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Garmin Transitions Map Provider in Australia and New Zealand

Garmin has today announced that it will transition its map provider for the majority of its nuvi range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) to NAVTEQ from February 2012. Garmin PNDs in Australia and New Zealand released from...

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Johannes Riegl Jr. Appointed to Executive Management Group

In keeping pace with the success and growth of the corporation, RIEGL Laser Measurements Systems GmbH, Austria, announced today a new appointment to the executive management group. As of January 1st, 2012, Johannes Riegl Jr. was named the Chief...

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Land Art Mongolia 2012

To fully grasp the subject matter of spatial politics in contemporary art a broadly interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of land use is necessary. Artists are invited to provide drafts and work plans reflecting on smart growth,...

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

GIS Research Center Taiwan – 1st Cloud-based Municipal Works Map Platform

FCU’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Center has successfully applied Google Earth Enterprise cloud technology to the completion of Taiwan’s first municipal works cloud-based map platform. This project was commissioned by the Taichung City Government. With the...