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While some places will go to any lengths to attract visitors, residents of La Salut neighbourhood in Barcelona are celebrating a move to wipe themselves off the map. For years, residents had complained that they could not get home because the number 116 bus was always crammed with tourists visiting Antoni Gaudí’s Park Güell. The ...

In a collaborative move with the W3C Consortium, Siemens and Microsoft have announced their commitment to converge the Digital Twin Definition Language (DTDL) with the Thing Description standard from international standards organization, W3C. By unifying both languages, customers are offered consistent modeling experiences, mitigating fragmentation in an evolving IoT landscape. With customers typically deploying a ...

On the sidelines of the 10th session of the Abu Dhabi Japan Economic Council, held in the capital Abu Dhabi, the Integrated Transport Centre (ITC) of the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) in Abu Dhabi signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with “Location Mind”, a leading Japanese company in the field of research, ...

London Gatwick has created a new geospatial platform using Esri’s ArcGIS to support multiple operational areas at the airport, including engineering and environmental services. The system is already making engineering and construction works safer by reducing accidental strikes on buried utilities and enabling better management of the airports biodiversity. London Gatwick is one of the ...

Energy modellers and researchers have developed a geospatial mapping model they say can help address the electricity access gap in Africa. The model has been developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA), researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Electricity Growth and Use In Developing Economies. By mapping which buildings are ...

A new selection of location datasets, including two new products, have been released today (Thursday 28 March) as part of the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA). The new data and products have been delivered by Ordnance Survey (OS) and are set to support customers across a range of markets, including the emergency services, sustainability, land ...

Geographic information systems (GIS) provider Esri Ireland has been chosed by Dublin Urban Rivers Life (DURL) project to help prevent preventing circa 13 million litres of polluted wastewater from entering Dublin rivers annually. DURL is a joint venture between South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Councils, with funding received from the EU Life Programme. It ...

The Geospatial Commission, part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), has partnered with The Alan Turing Institute to explore the role that artificial intelligence (AI) can play in long-term decisions about how to use land. The UK is facing significant and competing pressures for its land. Advances in spatial data science and ...

Organic agriculture may be as old as dirt, but that doesn’t mean its impacts are fully understood. A team of scientists in the United States and Canada are doing their part to change that. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of British Columbia, and University of Colorado Boulder discovered that organic farming significantly affects the ...

제주에서 도심항공 교통(UAM)의 밑그림이 될 ‘지도’가 그려진다. 제주특별자치도는 국토교통부가 주관하는 ‘2024년 고정밀 전자지도 구 축 챌린지’ 사업기관에 선정돼 도시계획·개발, 지하시설물 매설 등 각종 사 업의 기본도로 활용되는 전자지도를 구축한다고 21일 밝혔다. 고정밀 전자지도는 도로, 건물, 하천 등 다양한 인공지물과 자연 지형을 일정한 축척에 따라 기호와 문자, 속성 등으로 표현한 디 지털 지리정보다. 국내에서 제작되는 수치지도 ...

Con la intención de acercar y facilitar el acceso a toda la información de Bogotá, la Sociedad de Mejoras y Ornato de Bogotá creó la plataforma digital DataCivilidad, una herramienta que recoge cientos de miles de datos de la capital desde hace más de dos siglos para que, tanto personas naturales como organizaciones estatales y ...

Los grupos de investigación ‘Informática Gráfica y Geomática’ y ‘Tecnologías Avanzadas en Ingeniería Civil: Construcción y Transporte Terrestre’ de la Universidad de Jaén mantienen desde hace unos años una intensa colaboración en materia de investigación y docencia con la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (FARUSAC). Fruto de esta cooperación ...

The Geospatial Commission had today (Wednesday 20 March) become the 31st member of the UK Centre for Seabed Mapping (UK CSM). The UK CSM, which is administered by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), was created in June 2022 to spearhead a coordinated approach to the collection, management and access of seabed mapping data and to ...

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El Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible ha anunciado la firma de un protocolo con el Ministerio de Defensa, específicamente con la Armada, para fomentar la colaboración entre el Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), su Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica (CNIG) y el Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina (IHM). Esta alianza estratégica busca compartir y mejorar ...

Esri, empresa líder en tecnología geoespacial, ha firmado un acuerdo de colaboración con Acutel, la Asociación Nacional de Operadores de Telecomunicaciones y Televisión Local de España, entidad que aglutina a casi 250 compañías que ofrecen servicios de internet, telefonías fija y móvil y televisión, y cuyo objetivo es que los operadores de telecomunicaciones locales puedan ...

The Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture has announced a significant step forward in water management and planning by signing a contract to establish a geographical information system (GIS) for water planning. This initiative aims to create a smart water digital platform aligning with international best practices for the water sector within the Kingdom. Dr. ...

In a Sacramento office building, university students carefully scan pieces of paper that underpin California’s most contentious and valuable water disputes. One by one, they’re bringing pieces of history into the digital era, some a century old and thin as onion skin. The massive undertaking will unmask the notoriously opaque world of California water. Right ...

A map with charging points for electric cars was recently unveiled by Romania’s Energy Ministry. The map is featured on the website of the institution, and was made in partnership with local authorities across the country. Romanian energy minister Sebastian Burduja said that the map is part of the EU-wide project of reaching 75 million ...

Una experiencia piloto en el Campus de Rabanales será la base del proyecto GEDIER, que busca crear un sistema de apoyo a la toma de decisiones para una gestión más eficiente de los recursos Avanzar hacia un uso plenamente eficiente de los recursos es el reto más ambicioso al que se enfrenta la agricultura, tanto ...

Fujitsu Limited and Carnegie Mellon University today announced the development of a new technology to visualize traffic situations, including people and vehicles, as part of joint research on Social Digital Twin that began in 2022. The technology transforms a 2D scene image captured by a monocular RGB camera (1) into a digitalized 3D format using ...

The water cycle looks simple in theory—but human impacts, climate change, and complicated geography mean that in practice, floods and droughts remain hard to predict. To model water on Earth, you need incredibly high-resolution data across an immense expanse, and you need modeling sophisticated enough to account for everything from snowcaps on mountains to soil ...

The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have collaborated to develop a nationwide mangrove map using remote sensing data, a vital tool for conservation efforts. The mangrove mapping initiative is part of the DENR’s development of a national geospatial database for its environment and natural resource accounting program. ...

Wildfire fighting and forest management decisions are potentially being hampered by inaccurate government data that misrepresents forest fuel loads in British Columbia’s Interior, a new study has found. The B.C. government says the provincial wildfire service is working with the study’s lead author and others to close the data gap, which involves “mismatches” between remotely-sensed ...

Google Maps has become an invaluable tool to navigate and to find the best spots to eat, get coffee, or to see sights. But with some bigger buildings and attractions, it can get hard to find the entrance. That’s where a new experiment comes in that Google appears to be testing with a few users ...

New York City neighborhoods with disrupted community connections, due to traffic, roads, and transport infrastructure, are experiencing an increase in traffic collisions. This increase is seen both in total collisions and for those in which pedestrians or cyclists are injured or killed, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. ...

Unplanned power outages due to environmental conditions (wind, lightning, tree growth, etc.) leave those without power on their own, sometimes for long periods of time. Utility companies lack the ability to predict when forced outages will occur, so no mitigation measures targeting consumers are deployed ahead of time to reduce the impact of an outage. ...

El Gobierno de la Ciudad y el Tecnológico de Monterrey firmaron un convenio de colaboración para desarrollar una réplica virtual del territorio del municipio, comúnmente conocida como “gemelo digital”. Se trata de una representación virtual de la ciudad que será construida a partir de la cartografía con la que cuenta el Gobierno Municipal en conjunto ...

Climate change intensifies disasters, which drives displacement. That can, among many impacts, push internally displaced people from rural areas into urban slums. That in turn raises the risks of forced evictions and secondary urban displacement, as well as increased risks of public health crises, and so on, in a dispiriting causal chain. Knowing, in detail, ...

The NSSO (FOD) under Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) under the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to facilitate Urban Frame Survey (UFS) in a digital mode using the state-of-the-art Geo ICT tools and techniques using Bhuvan Platform. The ...