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...

Pictometry International Corp. (NY, USA) has announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. (WA, USA). Under terms of the agreement, Pictometry will license existing and new...

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...

For some time now I have been involved as an advisor on GIS and Mapping in preparation of the Population and Housing Census of one of the biggest, in terms...

Google Earth has been mentioned at least once at every meeting or conference of GIS-related professionals I’ve attended over the past year. It was even briefly referred to during defence...

The subject of this Expert Group Meeting was the improvement of land tenure security through new legal frameworks and new and better tools. New land laws have recently come into...

G-Source Industrial Corp. (Taiwan) introduced BG-521B, a Bluetooth GPS receiver, which integrates the Xtrac software and a Flash-based program memory. The BG-521B has 12 parallel satellite-tracking channels and a built-in...

The last quarter century has seen a stupendous development in the field of global positioning technology and today it is almost a taken for granted service by a global positional...

The USA and the Russian Federation intend to begin preliminary discussions on an agreement for co-operation between the GPS and Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). Both countries intend to work...

In co-production, GAF AG and its subsidiary, Euromap GmbH, both from Germany, have extended the availability of IRS orthophoto mosaic 'Euro-Maps' from Germany to Austria and Switzerland. Coverage of the...