Autodesk has announced that MapGuide Enterprise 2011 and Topobase Web 2011 have been certified as compliant with the the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) v1.1.1. WMS enables interoperability with WMS consuming applications. […]
To sustain a 7+% rate of economic expansion India will need to improve the reliability of its grid, accelerate rural electrification, and add new sources of energy. The Indian Government has created the “India Smart […]
There is an interesting blog post by Jeff Thurston about Russia making more of its technically outstanding geospatial data openly available. Jeff quotes Prime Minister Putin as saying “maps must be free and generally accessible […]
The new German radar satellite, TanDEM-X, which was launched from Kazakhstan earlier this week has returned its first images. Together with the TerraSAR-X satellite launched in 2007 it will be able to produce digital elevation […]
The INSPIRE Conference 2010 is being held this year in Cracow, Poland, an absolutely stunning location. There have been some riveting presentations as part of the first day’s plenary session that for me put the […]
The first Canadian Geomatics Conference was held in Calgary last week. The opening session includes a guest presentation by Glen Hodgson, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the Conference Board of Canada. The Conference […]
As part of its commitment to BIM for infrastructure, Autodesk released a new Storm and Sanitary Analysis Extension for AutoCAD Map 3D that provides water utility designers with tools to conduct hydraulic analyses to assess […]
DLT Solutions organized a Geospatial Tech Day June 8 in Washington, DC. Mike Evanoff of Google Earth Enterprise gave the leadoff presentation. Jim Flyzik moderated a panel on geospatial trends that included Mike Evanoff, myself, […]