AGI GeoCom: ECN Networking Session The ECN held a successful lunchtime networking session at this year’s GeoCom providing young professionals an informal opportunity to find out more about the various paths to geospatial accreditation. Thanks to all those who attended, including the representatives from RGS-IBG, RICS and CICES who gave up their time to be on hand to answer any … Read More
Gemini 2023 Round-Up
The AGI Gemini Working Group has been hard at work in 2023 modernising the way that we publish and maintain the metadata standard. Gemini was adopted as one of the first standards to be included in the UK Geospatial Data Standards Register in 2022, and since then we’ve ensured that the membership and governance of the group is as open … Read More
AGI Cymru 2023 Round-Up
This year AGI Cymru has been developing the AGI GeoCommunity in North Wales including hosting an event linked to Eryri National Park and we met members from across different sectors and industry at our annual conference in Cardiff on the 10th of October. The theme of the conference was ‘Climate Change in Wales’. Discussions were raised on what geospatial data would … Read More
AGI Northern Ireland 2023 Round-Up
2023 has been an exciting year for the AGI Northern Ireland. We held our annual conference, GI and Spatial for the Future – Here and Now, at Belfast City Hall on the 28 June. Our first in-person event in three years, it was our most popular conference to date with nearly 180 delegates representing the public sector, private sector and … Read More
AGI Scotland Annual Conference 2024 Registration Open!
We are pleased to announce that registration is now OPEN for the AGI Scotland Annual Conference will take place on Tuesday, 27 February 2024, at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow. This year’s theme is “Valuing what we have – Maximising the Use of Data and Technology”. Geospatial insight offers significant opportunities and has the power to create lasting value. Join … Read More
AGI Celebrates ‘Amazing’ Conference with GeoCom Success
The Association for Geographic Information (AGI), is celebrating following a successful annual conference. The largest independent event in the UK GI calendar, organised for geospatial professionals by geospatial professionals, GeoCom 23 attracted more than 250 registered delegates with a challenging agenda featuring topics such as ethics and governance, skills shortages and the environmental impact of earth observation. Feedback from attendees … Read More
CGI’s Cyber Escape experience visits University of Nottingham as part of ongoing partnership
London United Kingdom, 13 December 2023 CGI, (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world, recently brought its Cyber Escape experience to the University of Nottingham for a week long residency at the University Park Campus. Combining the fun of an escape room with the themes of cyber security, the experience allowed staff, students, … Read More
CGI named on UK Ministry of Defence Digital & IT Professional Services framework
London, United Kingdom, 13 December 2023 CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) has been named as a supplier on the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) new Digital and IT Professional Services (DIPS) framework. Crown Commercial Service (CCS) assisted MOD in the production of the DIPS framework and will become the framework authority upon go live, with MOD responsible for all customer engagement. The DIPS framework … Read More
Peak District Pioneers AI Landscape Mapping using Bluesky Aerial Images
Leicestershire, UK, 12 December 2023 – The UK’s Peak District National Park Authority, in partnership with Cranfield University and The Alan Turing Institute, is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate the production of highly detailed land cover maps. Using high-resolution aerial photography from Bluesky International, the Authority has developed a new variant of deep-learning network that automatically classifies … Read More
Anytime, anywhere – scheduled data submission via 1Data Gateway
Cambridge, UK, December 12th 2023, (www.1spatial.com) 1Spatial, the global leader in location master data management solutions that improve data quality and governance, is pleased to announce the latest release of 1Data Gateway for automated data submission and validation. Data submission can now be scheduled to run once or at a recurring interval, for example data could be pulled from an … Read More