In many countries land administration is in a very bad way. In large areas of the world land administration systems are conspicuous by their absence. Where they do exist, procedures...

In many countries land administration is in a very bad way. In large areas of the world land administration systems are conspicuous by their absence. Where they do exist, procedures...

The City2See website (www.city2see.com) is now offering high-resolution colour aerial photography of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. Users are able to freely search and view the image catalogue and print...

Toposcopy combines geo-referenced visualisation and close-range photogrammetry, using low-cost digital camera and CAD data. It has recently been successfully used to reconstruct a simulated traffic accident from video images. The...

Digital Map Products (DMP) (CA, USA), a developer of Web-served mapping applications, has announced it has augmented its executive team with the addition of a new chief executive officer and...

Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced its next generation of GPS receivers for GIS data collection and mapping, the GPS Pathfinder ProXH receiver. It is an integrated GPS receiver, antenna and...

eSpatial (Ireland) has announced the release of iSMART Xtra for GE Smallworld. Developed in collaboration with Realworld, a Smallworld & Oracle solutions partner, iSMART Xtra for Smallworld provides a standards-based,...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced the availability of Tracking Server, a solution for collecting and sending near real-time data from many data sources and formats to Web and desktop clients....

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (GA, USA) has appointed Jim Farley vice-president business development. Mr Farley has spent more than twenty years in the information technology industry in both mainstream...

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...