The future for the surveying professional is bright. This is one of my favourite adages, and one I have expressed in a variety of wordings many times over in the...

This issue of GIM International presents a Product Survey on mobile mappers: small, lightweight, handy instruments for gathering data and integrating the collected data with digital maps. But how is...

A growing number of European organisations have adopted or are planning to adopt open standards developed by internet, government, industry and international organisations. Organisations dependent on geospatial information are making...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has announced that its dealer, Beijing BDStar Navigation Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, completed deployment of NovAtel GPS-based systems for the Tianjin port Container Terminals (TCT), as per...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

Google Inc. (CA, USA) has announced the launch of Google Earth, Google's new satellite imagery-based mapping product that combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search. Based...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has reported continued growth in its first quarter sales and net earnings. First quarter sales rose to CHF 210.7 million (US$ 260,749,869.83), an increase of 11.7% above...

DigitalGlobe (CO, USA) has announced that RMTC/URS, along with Kauai County and the State of Hawaii, has purchased high-resolution DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery for more effective digital mapping in Hawaii....

Avenza Systems Inc. (Canada) has announced that it will support HarrysMaps of Switzerland and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) project to re-map the city of...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS Implementation Specification...