Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Indonesia has sent 120 firefighters to battle blazes from peatland areas that are causing unhealthy levels of pollution in neighbouring Malaysia, an official said. Authorities in Kuala Lumpur said on Thursday air quality had reached 104 in...
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
SuperGeo Technologies announced that its SuperGIS Server 3 is going to support the map cache function soon for speedy map processing functionality. Developed by SuperGeo Technologies, SuperGIS Server 3, the map server software, enables enterprises to create, manage, integrate, and...
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia's continental shelf.They examined the shelf seascape during a three-year program of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF)...
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
Pacific Island countries and territories are challenged by the necessity to update their maps to reflect the present day realities. "Countries are utilising several mapping systems, or projections, in parallel," said Dr Wolf Forstreuter, SOPAC's Remote Sensing and...
Monday, December 6th, 2010
At least 70,000 slums in the city will get a breather from the new capital value-based property tax system the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had planned to introduce in March 2011. The BMC has no records of...
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Online Open Street and Cycle mapping - use free open mapping, giving worldwide coverage. Unlike premium mapping, these maps are downloaded automatically as you need them. They are then cached on the iPhone or iPad, so only...
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
OpenRouteService.org provides a location-based POI search that is implementing the OpenGIS Location Service Directory Specification (OpenLS) already since 2008. This has now been extended from European to Global coverage using the free data from OpenStreetMap. Due to...
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
The World Cup 2010 is set to begin. For the first time Africa will host the World Cup and a month...
