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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

$25m ADB Fund for Digital Tax, land management

An ADB press release said a technical assistance grant of $800,000 is associated with the loan supporting implementation of the Strengthening Governance Management Project (SGMP), and capacity development of its executing agencies. It also said, the project will...

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Christine Acosta: The Leak Detective

Christine Acosta is a young engineer who detects leaks for Maynilad Water Services, Inc. to solve the mysterious cases of water losses in Metro Manila. In this interview, Christine talks about her job of finding missing water;...

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Australia’s Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts

Near median flows are the most likely outcome for eighteen of the forecast sites for spring, with high flows most likely for the remaining sites. Conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean remain neutral and close to average...

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Gas Deal to Fuel Iraq’s Power Drive

Iraq is inching towards sealing a huge deal with Royal Dutch Shell to end power cuts that have plagued Iraqis and hurt economic growth since the fall of Saddam Hussein five years ago. The final draft of the...

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Position – Local Expert on Land Use Management

The Local Expert will work alongside with International Expert and assist provincial board of governor through providing support to all Master Plan and Provincial Land Use Plan Project activities. The plans shall provide provincial authorities with an...

Monday, September 12th, 2011

Oceansat-2 Ground Station Inaugurated in Hyderabad

A state-of-the-art Oceansat-2 ground station (data reception and processing system) was inaugurated today by the Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh at the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (Incois) here. Read More

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

New Zealand Topographic Map

Land Information of New Zealand has made available a great set of 1:50,000 scale Topographic Maps. I downloaded all 455 of the maps covering the main island of New Zealand and coverted them to a seamless Google...

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

Sinking Pacific Island Kiribati Considers Move to a Man-made Alternative

The future for Kiribati, one of the low-lying Pacific nations threatened by rising seas, is so dire that the government is contemplating relocating the entire population to man-made islands resembling giant oil rigs. "We're considering everything... because...

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

DENR 9 Lines Up 31 Towns for Cadastral Survey in 2012

The Lands Management Sector, DENR Region 9 has lined up thirty one (31) municipalities in Zamboanga Peninsula to be covered by the enhanced cadastral program for CY 2012. This was announced by Regional Executive Director Arleigh Adorable...

Friday, September 9th, 2011

AAM Hosts Geocortex Australia User Conference

AAM will host the first Australian Geocortex User Conference in Melbourne from 10th – 11th October in Melbourne. Geocortex is the Industry Leader in Web Mapping. The workshop will outline the benefits
of using Geocortex within the workplace and...