The names are not as familiar to GIS folks at Autodesk and Pitney Bowes, but yesterday Bricsnet and MABEC Group also came together in a new relationship.
Bricsnet FM America, Inc. and MABEC Group, Inc. today formalized a strategic alliance to create a bi-directional data exchange between cloud-based BIM databases and Bricsnet, the corporate real estate/facilities management tool.
"Data exchange between Building Information Models and Geospatial Information Systems will greatly increase the ability of Integrated Workplace Management Systems to improve productivity for corporate real estate executives and facility managers," says David Karpook, Chief Executive Officer of Bricsnet, which is based in San Francisco.
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/11 at 05:55 AM |
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[LightSquared CEO Philip] Falcone and two LightSquared representatives met Jan. 4 with Federal Communications Commission staff and “emphasized the significant investment that has already been made in the LightSquared network,” according to a filing posted yesterday on the agency’s website.
The plea is being described as an 11th hour effort to "woo" the agency. I think that's accurate.
- Bloomberg
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/11 at 05:17 AM |
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The first new engineering building on the University of Tennessee campus in nearly 50 years — the $37.5 million Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science building — opens in January. A $12.5 million gift from Garmin co-founder and UT alum Min Kao made it possible.
- Knoxville News Sentinel
CampusTours Inc. today released a new Web site, http://www.CampusMaps.com, devoted to providing a comprehensive catalog of college and university campus maps. It links to many campus maps but the goal is to get you to use that company's services for your campus map/online tour.
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I love it when my two favorite disciplines (chemistry and geography) come together.
The Chemistry Map of Scotland is an interactive online tool which allows pupils across the country to post accounts of the effect of chemistry in their local area. ...The map has been organised by the Scottish Local Sections of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) as part of the International Year of Chemistry in 2011.
The idea is for students to add data points in their local areas. Cool.
- Fife Today
Western Kentucky University Associate Professor of Geography Katie Algeo wrote "Historical GIS as a Platform for Public Memory at Mammoth Cave National Park" with graduate students Ann Epperson and Matthew Brunt. It was named 2011 Best Paper Award by the International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research.
Algeo, a cultural/historical geographer, has focused much of her research in recent years on the cultural geography of Mammoth Cave. The Mammoth Cave Historical Geographic Information Science project is dedicated to document and preserve the lives and memories of the area's pre-park residents.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/11 at 03:00 AM |
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