This week (3 November, 2014) the Scottish Government posted a consultation draft document on guidance and best practice for wind turbine planning. The document aims to create discussion and feedback and allows stakeholders to contribute and ultimately help better engage with communities and members of the public. Both consultation draft and the feedback document are available at the
Earlier this week (7 October 2014) the UK Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) published updated guidance for engagement in planning and development for onshore wind. Aimed at communities, local authorities and developers, the documents are forwarded by The Rt Hon Edward Davey (Ed) who says the opportunity to develop onshore wind and benefits
This week saw Linknode embark on an exploratory trade mission to Finland, supported by Scottish Development International (SDI) and Panliska / ScotWindFin (http://www.panliska.com/), accompanied by Stephen Fox. As a first-time visitor to the country having a local coordinator ensured that we got the maximum benefit, with seven meetings in just three-days total time out of
As the Commonwealth Games roll into Glasgow there are a lot of changes at the Linknode offices. It is time for an update on what is happening outwith VentusAR app news. Internally, we have welcomed Calum McRae to the team in the Sales and Business Development role. Calum has been meeting customers, preparing meetings and
AGI Award In late 2013 Linknode were delighted to receive the SmeSpire “INSPIRE for SMEs” AGI Award. The award is designed to reward and encourage SMEs in the Geographic Information sphere for engaging with and taking advantage of INSPIRE implementation. Linknode’s production of the VentusAR app solution is dependent on elevation and mapping data published
Conference Roundup With the end of the Autumn conference and exhibition season approaching Linknode staff have travelled a cumulative total of 5000 miles across the UK recently. From Liverpool to Cardiff and Birmingham to York, here are some of the highlights: RenewableUK (Birmingham) The RenewableUK exhibition and show at the NEC is one of the
Glasgow Today, Monday 14 October 2013, marks another milestone for Linknode as we leave our office in Stirling and move to new business premises in Glasgow. Our address at inovo is just a couple of minutes’ walk from the heart of the city, George Square and all the major urban transport links. This is a
International Markets In his book “Digital Disruption”, James McQuivey talks about the new Power of One. He argues that historically the “power of the industrial economy was achieved by scale” – business economics growing proportionally to the number of employees. However, he now proposes that “it is no longer true that size of company matters”
Geospatial Conference Season September, or Maptember as it was termed this month, was open season for geospatial conferences – and in more ways than one. Earlier, the Open Street Map ‘State of the Map’ was held in Birmingham and there were at least 10 other events nationally. For Linknode it was a return to Nottingham
2020 Climate Group Lecture Series Last Wednesday evening, one of the last warm September evenings, I attended second of Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group lecture programmes at St. Paul’s and St. George’s Church in Edinburgh presented by Samantha Barber and Dave Gorman. Stephen Belcher, Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre spoke first with the facts
