18-21 October 2011, Prato

VirtualGeo and its partners of the V-City project consortium will welcome you at the VAST 12th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage that will take place from the 18th to the 21st of October in Prato, Italy.

We are very proud to announce that VirtualGeo 3 has been selected to be the 3D browser of the next generation French GeoPortail, which will comply with the INSPIRE directive. This project will be carried out by a consortium of companies including Diginext and led by Atos Wordline with the ambition to release the new GeoPortail V3 mid-2012. Géoportail is the geographic portal of the French government whose aim is to publicise georeferenced data about the whole French territory. This service, developed by two public agencies (the IGN and the BRGM), was officially inaugurated on June 23, 2006. With millions of connections, this massively successful service originated for two main purposes:

• to comply with the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial information in Europe) European directive and ADELE French program aiming at the development of on-line administrative information

• to provide a national alternative to other online projects such as Google Maps and Google Earth

About IGN

The Institut Géographique National is the French national provider of reference geographic information, heir to the French Armed Forces Geographic Department (Service Géographique des Armées – SGA) founded in 1887. Its role is to describe, from a geometric and physical perspective, the surface and land use of the national territory, to make all appropriate representations thereof and to distribute this information. Initially a map designer, today, IGN produces increasingly exhaustive digital databases, that can be used for many applications. It thereby contributes to development planning, sustainable development and environmental protection, national defence, civil security and risk prevention, as well as to the promotion and standardisation of national and international applications of geographic information.

27 June - 1 July 2011, Edinburgh

VirtualGeo team will welcome you at the INSPIRE conference from June 27 to July 1 2011 in Edinburgh. VirtualGeo will be presented during poster sessions (through the V-City project) and demonstrated in the exhibit area.

INSPIRE is setting up the framework for a spatial data infrastructure for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

More information on the conference is available on the INSPIRE website.

1-3 February 2011, Monaco

How users can interact with VirtualGeo throug a multitouch stereoscopic table has been presented at the Imagina conference on DIGINEXT booth. As usual, our booth welcomed a large number of visitors including a team of Euronews who interviewed our team. The footage has been broadcasted during Euronews journal.

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