New York, NY, May 15, 2013 — OpenGeo, the creators of the OpenGeo Suite, the world’s leading open source geospatial software platform, announced a $3 million Series A investment from Vanedge Capital of Vancouver, British Columbia. Simultaneous with the funding event, the company has spun out from its incubator parent, OpenPlans, and is boosting OpenGeo’s product and customer-support initiatives.

The Department of Geomatics Sciences at Université Laval, Canada, announces two tenure-track professor positions available - one in 'Geospatial Information Systems (GIS)' and one in 'Applied Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing'. Get the descriptions of the posts here:

GIS: http://www.scg.ulaval.ca/consult_emploi.php?id=520

National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC) – Landsat Advisory Group - published a valuable report in September 2012 titled "The Value Proposition for Ten Landsat Applications".

The Canadian Geomatics Community Strategy "White Paper" and Scenarios (January 2013) was prepared for Natural Resources Canada by Hickling Arthurs Low Corporation (HAL). The report was prepared under the direction of the Interim Steering Committee (ISC) of the Canadian Geomatics Community Round Table (Round Table). Its purpose is to provide a foundation for the Round Table to prepare a pan-Canadian Geomatics Sector strategy.

2 May 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and the OpenMI Association (OA) have announced a call for public comment on the Open Modelling Interface Version 2 (OpenMI) and its accompanying reference manual. This standard defines a means by which independently developed computer models of environmental processes, or indeed any processes, can exchange data as they run and hence facilitates the modelling of interacting processes.

EuroGeographics seeks a consultant to lead EuroGeographics' technical contribution to the European Commission funded project, the European Location Framework (E.L.F.) and to support EuroGeographics service development in line with customer requirements.

The purpose of the consultancy is to understand user's requirements for European reference datasets and interpret these into services developed to maximise the use of member's national products and services.

GSDI Association member Institut Cartografic de Catalunya is pleased to announce the start of the International Course on Management and Applied Techniques in Cartography (IC_Cartotechnology).

The OGC Elects Directors

8 April 2013. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) recently held its biennial election of directors. Of the 18 elected members of the consortium’s 2010-2012 Board of Directors, 15 serving members were re-elected and three new members have been seated. The new OGC board members are Christopher Holmes, Walter Scott and Geoff Zeiss.

GSDI Association member the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is challenging students who have software development skills to create new applications that use OGC standards in innovative, interesting and fun ways. For example, the software application can do some or all of the following:

Dave Lovell, President-elect of the GSDI Association and Secretary General and Executive Director of Association member EuroGeographics, announces the following news from his organisation: