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LINK - The European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:16 The LINK project has created a European Forum on Intermodal Passenger Travel in order to enhance the combined use of different transport modes on one single journey, with its focus on long distance trips and thus also on cross-border travelling. This stresses the context of an often unknown environment for the traveller.
Hydroelectric Plants Power Brazil’s Economic Growth Friday, 13 August 2010 07:17 Located on the Claro River in Brazil, the 90-megawatt Barra dos Coqueiros hydroelectric power plant will generate energy for 650,000 people in the state of Goias. It is one of two new hydroelectric plants being put into operation in April 2010 by the Gerdau Group, the leading manufacturer of long steel in the Americas. The $230 million investment represents the company’s expanded commitment electricity generation from renewable sources.
Integration of Energy Policy into Urban Renewal – Leipzig Case Study Friday, 06 August 2010 18:09 Future strategies and measures of spatial development will increasingly focus on energy policy. Adopting a holistic approach, measures of mitigation and measures of adaptation need to be combined. In addition, socio-political elements should be taken into account. Therefore the term “climate justice” contains the requirement to be suitable for the climate (as environmental justice) and the socially fair arrangement of these strategies in terms of standards of living and survival capability (as social justice).
Plan4all - European Network of Best Practices for Interoperability of Spatial Planning Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:50 Plan4all is a European project co-funded by the Community programme eContent­plus. The main aim of the project is to harmonise spatial planning data and related metadata according to the INSPIRE principles. The Plan4all project should contribute to the standardisation in the field of spatial data from spatial planning point of view. Its activities and results will become a ref­erence material for INSPIRE initiative; especially for data specification.
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  • What is the value of 3D farming? Land­scape man­agers have tra­di­tion­ally depended upon the use of 2D tools and appli­ca­tions for the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of food. How­ever, three-dimensional spa­tial appli­ca­tions are highly ori­ented to two things — bet­ter...
  • How creepy does the use of geospatial technology need to get before there’s a major backlash? I can’t help but feeling creeped out about certain combinations of geospatial and sensor technologies these days. One day last week I found news stories about: a school district that was exploring the use of RFID technology to track students;...
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 Intergraph Plans a Continued Solutions Push Under Hexagon

The acquisition of Intergraph by Hexagon in early July has made geospatial industry consolidation a hot topic throughout this Summer. V1 Editor Matt Ball speaks with R. Reid French Jr., executive vice president and chief operating officer, about the company’s approach and potential changes under the new ownership. Ball also speaks with Mark Doherty, vice...

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GeoEye’s Solid Footing Becomes Enhanced with Latest Award

GeoEye continues to make inroads as the first commercial, high-resolution satellite imagery provider. The announcement this past week that the company has been awarded a $3.8 billion contract through the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) EnhancedView program means that the company has a strong foundation for another 10 years to come. V1 editor...

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IBM Lends Smarts to the Integration of Spatial Information within the Enterprise

As a leading integrator and provider of information technology, IBM has been using and promoting geospatial technologies for decades. Their recent efforts with the Smarter Planet concept speaks to the need for greater efficiently in our cities and the deployment of more intelligent systems for a more sustainable planet. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Michael...

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Infrastructure Planning: Complex Problems Deserve New Solutions

The phases of planning for infrastructure change have not varied much since humans began coordinating the construction of more than one building, road, or bridge simultaneously. Planners need to understand the current environment and conditions, conceive and compare alternatives, and confidently select a particular alternative to move forward into detailed design,...

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Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: It's All About the Costs

Conservatives,  let's talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong -- so liberal, even -- on wind and solar energy. Let's start with a recent editorial from the home of 'free markets and free people,"the Wall Street Journal." Photovoltaic solar energy, quoth the mavens, is a "speculative and immature technology that costs far more than ordinary...

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Re-thinking Basemaps (Do we need a paradigm shift?)

Have you ever considered why the politicians don’t pay the same attention to our maps as we do and as we think they should do? They know very well how to use complex spread-sheets, so why do they turn their backs to our wonderful maps? Are the politicians ‘stupid’? Are the politicians ignorant? Or, are our maps not as good as we think they are?...

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Book Reviews

  • The Mapmaker's Eye - David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau Unlike many of his sea-going counterparts, explorer and geographer David Thompson spent most of his life on the ground paddling and walking the rivers and land of western Canada and the Pacific north-west....
  • Building European Spatial Data Infrastructures The Europe Union has been actively engaged in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for many years. Author Ian Masser wrote about the earliest efforts in the first edition of this book. Since that time the...
  • Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology Geospatial professionals and users of related products, services and geodata often use a wide variety of technologies and apply spatial knowledge in numerous applications. To do this effectively requires...
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  • Future Water Policy “an issue that affects all of us”, says UK Environment Minister DEFRA -  The Departtment for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has today launched an online survey, asking people to give their ideas ahead of the Water White Paper.  The Water White Paper, due to be published early next summer, will...
  • Metro's Green Line Runs Towards August Debut NATIONAL UAE - The Metro system’s Green Line is on track to open in August as testing to evaluate its preparedness continues. Ramadan Mohammed, the director of the Roads and Transport Authority’s (RTA) rail operations department, said regular...
  • Ancient Beech Forests as a UNESCO World Heritage Site BMU - The International Conservation Union (IUCN) will from today until 15 September review five UNESCO World Heritage Site nominated beech forests in Germany and visit and thoroughly check them. Thus begins a crucial stage for the...
  • Russia Completed Upgrade of Road to Norwegian Border BARENTS OBSERVER - Road authorities in Murmansk have completed the upgrade of the 240 km long highway leading to the Norwegian border. In two months also the road leading to the Finnish border will be completed. The highway, which stretches...
  • Italians Alerion Pledge 85 Million Euro Wind Farm for Bihor County DIPLOMAT BUCHAREST - The 85 million Euro investment will bring an annual production of 155 Gwh and an installed power of 64.8 MW. The Milan-listed company has been working through Romanian partner Eoliana to gain the authorisations and will fund...
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