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GIS News: Map of the Month from GfK GeoMarketing, ESRI Canada's Flex Tools for MASAS

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on June 21, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Map of the Month from GfK GeoMarketing, ESRI Canada's Flex Tools for MASAS

The OGC has announced its new board of directors in today’s geospatial news roundup.  GfK GeoMarketing has a new map of the month detailing retail spending as a share of private spending, SuperGeo has released SuperGIS Mobile Tour 3.0 for Android, and ESRI Canada has released ESRI Flex Tools for MASAS, and Esri and Bluesky make new [...]

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GIS News: Volcano Eruption in Chile, OGC Seeking Public Comments

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on June 13, 2011 • 0 Comments
GIS News: Volcano Eruption in Chile, OGC Seeking Public Comments

The latest GIS news includes an image showing the drift of sulphur dioxide from the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle eruption in Chile, announcements from Esri, Topcon, and Maponics; also, the OGC is seeking public comments. ESA The latest “image of the week” from ESA shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex. [...]

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GIS News: Bentley Keynote Report, Topcon Wins “Cool Vendor in Energy and Utilities” award

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on June 7, 2011 • 0 Comments

Today’s geospatial industry news includes the “Cool Vendor in Energy and Utilities” award for Topcon, the release of the Bentley User Conference Keynote Report, and contract awards for Nvision, Timmons Group, and SuperGeo. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) will be holding its next OGC Technical Committee and Planning Committee meetings from 12-17 June 2011 in Taichung, Taiwan. This is [...]

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GIS News: OGC's New Fee Structure, MapSuite 5.0, Geospatial Conferences

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on May 18, 2011 • 0 Comments

Map Suite 5.0 has been released by ThinkGeo.  Features in the release include native TAB file support, the all-new map legend feature, enhanced projection metadata support, International Date Line wrapping, OpenLayers 2.10. Member fee for developing countries have been reduced by OGC.  The new fee structure is based on the World Bank’s world economic indicator data.  Non-profits, [...]

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GIS News: OGC Webinar, MundoGEO#Connect, iSpatial, and SuperGIS Server 3

Filed in GIS News by Caitlin Dempsey on May 17, 2011 • 0 Comments

GIS industry news today includes an invitation from OGC to participate in its webinar, free fair admission to MundoGEO#Connect’s, and the announcement of a new contract from iSpatial. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) invites professionals in local and subnational (county, state, province, etc.) governments to participate in a free webinar: “Location Standards – How Do They Help Government?” [...]

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