The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of developing on a global basis collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations […]
TEPCO has reported that the radiation being emitted from Fukushima Daiichi has droped by a half from a month ago. The latest measurements indicate that radiation emitted from the damaged reactors is 100 million becquerels per […]
Yesterday Pak Wendy Aritenang, Asst Minister of Transportation, gave a presentation at the Asia Geospatial Forum in Jakarta about the Ministry of Transportation’s (MoT) geospatial project to create a location aware database for the Ministry. […]
Germany’s successful feed-in tariff program , which was first introduced in 2000 and revised in 2004 and 2009, has become a model for many countries around the world including Japan, the Czech Republic and Ontario. The latest […]
According to the Wall Street Journal in a draft Energy 2050 document reviewed by Dow Jones Newswires, the European Commission’s energy department says that in the absence of a global climate-change agreement, the EU should reconsider its […]
Yesterday at the Asia Geospatial Forum in Jakarta, the Head of Bakosurtanal, the Indonesian national mapping agency, gave an overview of the recently passed Geospatial Information Act No 4 2011. The Act, which was passed […]
In April 2006 at a conference organized by PDS on Pangkor Island in Malaysia, Professor Alias Abdul Rahman from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia talked about 3D cadastres, which are more important in Asia, where urban population […]
Perkins Specialized Transportation Contracting used model-based design and digital prototyping to design and build a 400-foot-long truck specifically to transport huge nuclear generators. The truck, which took nearly three years to build, provides a way […]