This week in the blogosphere: GIS Lounge charts phase two of the Geospatial revolution. GIS Development says Boeing has launched the last in a series of four SkyMed spacecraft for the Italian COSMO project. Google Maps has a jet-ski glitch. The Map Room tells us how to make a scratch and sniff map. The […]

A trial of Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) technology in New South Wales found 89 per cent of motorists reduced the amount of time they spent speeding when the dashboard device was installed in their vehicle. The ISA devices use GPS technology linked to a map of every road and its speed limit in the region, […]

    Asustek and Garmin have made their last Garmin-Asus smartphone, the two companies have announced. Asustek will instead design and manufacture its own phones, and Garmin will develop apps, some of which will be preloaded onto Asustek phones. The companies will continue to sell the six handset models launched under the Garmin-Asus brand since […]

A mechatronics student developing software to help self-guiding robots navigate accurately has won an award at the University of New South Wales. PhD candidate Mark Whitty, from the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, won the 2010 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research for his work on a system that enables autonomous robots to […]

Richard Murcott has been appointed geospatial standards leader within the New Zealand Geospatial Office (NZGO). The newly-created role will see Murcott responsible for administering the standards stream of work within the Geospatial Office work programme and taking responsibility for facilitating the development and implementation of geospatial standards in New Zealand. Murcott will form links with […]

  MDA Information Systems Group (MDA), has signed a multi-million dollar contract to supply digital elevation products to the government of Indonesia. MDA will use RADARSAT-2 data to produce digital elevation models that will allow the government of Indonesia to develop large-scale geological maps of a total area of approximately 600,000 square kilometers. The contract […]

    OMNILINK has released a new version of its spatial metadata management solution, Omniscient. Omniscient makes it easier for organisations to search out and catalogue spatial data, decide which version is the central source, create metadata to a standard, and present this data to many users.  OMNILINK has developed Omniscient as a server-based solution […]