Geospatial Press Releases and Industry News

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September 8, 2010

City of Burbank Deploys GO! Sync Mobile GIS

TC Technology

Every Cloud has a silver lining; Only “GIS as a Service” has Potential to Meet Growing Demand for Geospatial Technology

eSpatial

Azavea Recognized on Inc. Magazine’s 500|5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies

Azavea

Infotech Hires Greg Oaten as Strategy Advisor for Utilities

Infotech

Merrick & Company Wins National Ethics Award

Merrick & Company

USGDR Calls on State and County GIS Departments to Work Together

US Government

6th gvSIG Conference. Communication proposals deadline

gvSIG

September 7, 2010

GOCE gravity mission back in action

ESA - Observing the Earth

SuperWebGIS 3 Supports Numerous Commonly-used Geodatabases

SuperGeo

Super Wang to Judge at GIS Innovative Application Award

SuperGeo

RapidEye Exhibits With BEO and Santiago & Cintra At INTERGEO 2010

RapidEye

new Geomajas 1.7 and 10 plug-ins

Geomajas

Colorado’s South Adams County Water and Sanitation District Chooses VUEWorks for GIS-Integrated Asset Management

VUEWorks

PCI Geomatics to Represent Canada at the Rio Oil and Gas Expo in Brazil

PCI Geomatics

OGC Seeks Comments on NetCDF Climate and Forecast Data Encoding Standards

OGC

European LiDAR Mapping Forum – programme launched

Conferences

C. Dana Tomlin to be Inducted into URISA’s GIS Hall of Fame

URISA

Esri Releases the Open GeoServices REST Specification

ESRI

September 6, 2010

Esri South Africa supports Map Africa 2010

GIS Development

eSpatial’s iSMART GIS supports access to the OS OnDemand services provided by Ordnance Survey of Great Britain

eSpatial

Snowflake Software kicks off Early Access Programme with WFS 2.0

Snowflake Software

September 2, 2010

RapidEye Delivers Almost 20 Million Square Kilometers of Imagery to Brazilian State Minas Gerais

RapidEye

Abrahamson Leaves Land Surveying Legacy

Merrick & Company

Azavea Releases Web App Promoting Walking, Biking and Public Transit

Azavea

Mississippi’s Geospatial Cluster Transitions from Public Sector to Private Sector

General

Aligned Assets’ Events and Training Receive AGI Accreditation

Aligned Assets

Logistics Load Matching Platform on SuperWebGIS

SuperGeo

Olaf Petersen leaves GfK GeoMarketing

GfK GeoMarketing

Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan

ESA - Observing the Earth

September 1, 2010

Satellite navigation steers unmanned micro-planes

ESA - Observing the Earth

Mapping Lines According to Metes & Bounds is now easy

TractBuilder

PCI Geomatics Releases GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS, version 2.0 Software

PCI Geomatics

IDV Solutions to present “Innovating for Growth” webinar on September 22

IDV Solutions

Timmons Group’s Web LoGIStics Selected by the City of Fairfax, Virginia

Timmons Group

Digital Map Products Helps California City Provide Quick, Affordable GIS to Departments, Publi

Digital Map Products

August 31, 2010

OGC Calls for Participation in the OWS Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment

OGC

Skygone to exhibit at Open Source focused FOSS4G conference in Barcelona, Spain

Skygone

Learn to Conduct Network-Based Spatial Analysis

ESRI

SuperWebGIS 3 Passes OGC Compliance Test

SuperGeo

SuperGeo Partners with Taiwan GIS Center

SuperGeo

1Spatial Appoints Guy Perkins as Managing Director for Asia-Pacific

1Spatial

August 30, 2010

CARIS Measures Improved Performance With Spatial Fusion Enterprise 5.3

CARIS

Gas Utility Upgrades to GIS for Outages, Compliance

ESRI

INTERGEO 2010: Revolutionising the property sector

Intergeo

Infotech Expands the UTG Telecom Team

Infotech

RapidEye Establishes its Place in the Geospatial Industry

RapidEye

August 27, 2010

2010 URISA Student Competition Results Announced

URISA

Tsinghua University Team Wins Inaugural CIBE and Bentley Future Cities China Student Design Competition

Bentley

Geospatial World Forum Welcomes Trimble as Corporate Partner

GIS Development

Abstracts Sought for the 17th Annual CalGIS Conference

URISA

August 26, 2010

Open Source Geographic Information Systems course applied to vine-growing

gvSIG

New ArcGIS Explorer Makes Sharing Easier

ESRI

SuperGIS Develops Urban Disaster Prevention Spatial System

SuperGeo

RapidEye’s Quick Collection of the United States

RapidEye

August 25, 2010

Locating Business Intelligently Is Topic of Spatial Roundtable

ESRI

Learn How to Run ArcGIS Server on Amazon EC2

ESRI

Luis Bermudez Joins OGC as Director, Interoperability Certification

OGC

Ashtech® ProFlex™ 500 GNSS Receivers Used to Measure New Car Dynamic Movement

General

OGC and Smart Ocean Sensor Consortium (SOSC) to collaborate

OGC

IDV Signs Terra-IT as Business Partner in China

IDV Solutions

Geosparc at Foss4G: new Geomajas 1.7 and 8 certified plug-ins

Geosparc

August 24, 2010

Industry Thought Leaders Session to be Featured at GIS-Pro 2010

Conferences, URISA

Retail spending as a share of total private spending

GfK GeoMarketing

Whole New SuperWebGIS 3 Support 64-bit Environment

SuperGeo

UKM Solar Energy Research Institute Selected SuperGIS Desktop

SuperGeo

Maponics Taps Digital Map Products to Offer Neighborhood Boundaries

Maponics

GIS-Pro 2010 Offers Exhibitors Unparalleled Access

Conferences, URISA

August 23, 2010

Canadian Police Organizations Turn to ESRI Canada for Enhanced Crime Intelligence

ESRI

RapidEye’s Distributor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

RapidEye

August 20, 2010

Esri India joins Geospatial World Forum as Corporate Partner

GIS Development

August 19, 2010

Santiago & Cintra Consultoria Expands Distribution Territory in South America

RapidEye

Snowflake delivers first practical implementation of new OGC standard

Snowflake Software

SuperGeo Technologies Launch SuperWebGIS 3 Globally

SuperGeo

BS7666 Training Courses Announced By Aligned Assets

Aligned Assets

Geospatial World Forum with Prof. Dr. F. J. Radermacher as Guest Speaker

GIS Development

GTG Selected for Multiple Contracts

GTG

TractBuilder Tools to include Basemap Data

TractBuilder

Old Dominion Freight Line Adopts Esri GIS as Core System

ESRI

Smart Grid Study Identifies Utility Hurdles

ESRI

August 18, 2010

DeLorme Assisting in Development of Disaster Relief Mapping in Pacific Rim Region of Asia

DeLorme