Thursday, December 8th, 2011
FARO Technologies, Inc. and AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, announced today that they have signed an Interoperability Agreement.
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
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
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...
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Marine researchers in the Cook Islands are hoping a new survey can determine a link between poor water quality at beaches and sickness experienced by swimmers. The Ministry of Marine Resources is conducting the three week survey in...
