Directions Magazine - Press Releases

Industry Thought Leaders Share Dynamic Solutions at the Eighth Annual ALK Transportation Technology Summit

ALK Technologies, Inc. — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:12:30 -0500

Princeton,NJ - - 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...

USAID Hosts its First “Crowdsourcing” Event To Clean, Map, and Share Agency Data

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:29:25 -0500

Washington, DC - www.usaid.gov 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...

Scottish addresses added to AddressBase Products

Ordnance Survey — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:20:14 -0500

Southampton,UK - 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....

Finalists announced for Ordnance Survey�s GeoVation Challenge

Ordnance Survey — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:18:37 -0500

Southampton,UK - 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...

Landsat Contest Offers View of Local Landscape Change from Space

United States Geological Survey — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:06:32 -0500

Washington, DC - 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...

The M2M Software Platform Market Will Grow to $3.85 Billion by 2017 as Merchant-Market Platforms Increasingly Displace Self-Built Solutions

ABI Research — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:03:58 -0500

Scottsdale, AZ - 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...

KAYAK Leverages Skyhook Technology to Enable Location on Kindle Fire App

Skyhook Wireless — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:20:36 -0500

Boston, MA - 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...

VSolvit LLC Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Heal

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:46:46 -0500

1160 Del Verde Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 - – 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...

Washington State County Road Administration Board uses TatukGIS DK.NET for Road Management System

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:27:42 -0500

Gdynia, Poland -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,...

Esri UK Supports the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Beacons

ESRI UK — Thu, 24 May 2012 05:59:49 -0500

Aylesbury, UK - 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...

SuperGIS 67-97 Coordinate Transformation System Analyst 3.0a Now Available

SuperGeo Technologies Inc. — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:13:07 -0500

Taipei, Taiwan -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...

TomTom expands map coverage for its plug and play data solution for Oracle applications

TomTom — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:49:13 -0500

Washington DC - 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...

Optech announces successful completion of field trials for CZMIL bathymetric system

Optech Incorporated — Wed, 23 May 2012 08:29:48 -0500

Vaughan, Ontario -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...

The Trust for Public Land Unveils ParkScoreTM Rankings for 40 Largest U.S. Cities

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:22:54 -0500

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....

Department for Transport hands over street designation repository to GeoPlace

Ordnance Survey — Wed, 23 May 2012 04:49:32 -0500

London, England -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...