- Senior transportation and IT executives met with leading technology providers in a unique forum to discuss solutions to critical industry challenges at the 8th annual ALK Transportation Technology Summit, May 15-17. Attendance and partner participation at this year's Summit broke last year's record by more than 45 percent.

Transportation companies need to migrate and evolve as a...

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May, 24, 2012, WASHINGTON, D.C. - From June 1-3, volunteers will virtually collaborate with USAID staff to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that data with geographic information to help the Agency map its impact.

Aside from the substantive value of the data, this pilot will pave the way for additional complex data sets to...

 

Ordnance Survey is pleased to announce the inclusion of over 3 million Scottish addresses in the AddressBasesuite of products.

AddressBase products have been produced through the GeoPlace joint partnership with the Local Government Association and provide the definitive source of addresses across the whole of Great Britain. The products are available through

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Budding entrepreneurs across Great Britain could see their ideas turned into a reality when they go before an Ordnance Survey Dragon’s Den.

Ten finalists are now in line to win a share of £115,000, as part of Ordnance Survey’s GeoVation Challenge, which is aiming to improve local neighbourhoods in Britain.

The ten were selected from a shortlist of 17 at a three day GeoVation camp...

 

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are holding a contest that will offer winners customized satellite views of changing local landscapes.

All U.S. citizens are eligible to enter the "My American Landscape: A Space Chronicle of Change" contest. Winners will be announced on July 23 at a...

The cellular M2M market will rise from about 110 million cumulative connections globally in 2011 to roughly 453 million cumulative connections by 2017. Nevertheless, a key challenge for the industry remains the complexity of developing, deploying, and managing M2M applications over the cellular network. “This is a challenge both for mobile network operators (MNOs) that are trying to...

Popular travel app now has access to millions of new mobile consumers

Skyhook, the world leader in location information, context and intelligence, today announced that KAYAK, the leading travel search app, has integrated Skyhook's Location Engine in its Kindle Fire app to provide location services for the first time on this device. KAYAK joins a host of other apps using Skyhook for...

 – VSolvit announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Payal Kamdar, CEO will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled Geospatial Optimization Tool. Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) funds individuals worldwide to explore ideas that can break the mold in how we...

The Washington State County Road Administration Board (CRAB) uses the TatukGIS Developer Kernel (.NET edition) for its "Mobility" road inventory and management system. The mission of the Washington State CRAB is to preserve and enhance the transportation infrastructure of Washington counties by providing standards of good practice, fair administration of funding programs, visionary...

Aylesbury, 22 May 2012:  Esri UK, the country’s leading provider of geographic information systems (GIS) technology has launched an online, interactive map, to show the public the location of their nearest beacon being lit to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, on June 4th 2012. A network of over 4,100 beacons will be lit between 22.00 and 22.30 BST, by communities and...

The new version of SuperGIS 67-97 CTS Analyst 3.0a developed by SuperGeo Technologies is available now. For manipulation, the Coordinate Transformation System Analysis extension requires SuperGIS Desktop 3.1.

Specializing in converting the coordinate systems of spatial data of Taiwan and Penghu Islands, SuperGIS 67-97 CTS Analyst 3.0a provides users with three kinds of conversions such...

 

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 -- Location Intelligence Conference -- TomTom today announces the extension of coverage for TomTom Geospatial for Oracle, TomTom's plug and play data solution for geocoding, routing and display. Already available throughout Europe and North America and now in key countries in South America, the product enables easy integration of TomTom map and routing data...

Toronto, Canada, May 23, 2012 — Optech, the world leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced lidar and camera survey instruments, is pleased to announce the successful completion of field trials for the new airborne Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar system.

The CZMIL system underwent field trials and validation in coastal Mississippi and Fort...

 

San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston, and New York Earn Top Spots

A groundbreaking park rating system developed by The Trust for Public Land ranks San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston and New York as the nation’s top city park systems. Indianapolis, Mesa (Arizona), Louisville, Charlotte and Fresno received the lowest ParkScores among the 40 largest U.S. cities.

ParkScore is the most...

Local knowledge and control of roads reduces traffic jams, enabling easier flow of people and vehicles through the road system. From April 2012, the UK government handed over greater responsibility to local highway authorities for the management of the roads classification system.

To help with effective management of the road network and in order to aid road users’ efficient...