Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard founded HP (Hewlett Packard) in 1939. Today the company offers IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services, and imaging and printing for consumers,...

Early in 2002 the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) began the IDEC project (SDI of Catalonia). The first year was devoted to general planning and preparation and...

SCP (Germany) announced version 7.1 of its large-format colour copy software Colorado. New features include a 3-button mode for VIDAR and Contex scanners. In addition, the product supports the Colortrac...

Data on ocean species has been being sampled along US coastlines for some sixty years. To enable scientists requiring such data for a variety of investigations to retrieve it and...

Cadastral information is a fundamental layer in the Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and many GIS systems use it as a base framework. The authors introduce an approach to improve and...

All land administration organisations face similar challenges: they need to become less bureaucratic, simpler, cheaper and more transparent. Design and implementation of traditional approaches is so time-consuming that land laws...

The Spanish NSDI, named IDEE for 'Infra-estructura de Datos Espaciales de España' (www.idee.es), is a SDI of SDIs following the decentralised structure of Spanish Government: national, regional and local. It...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

Sanborn (CO, USA) has announced the promotion of Jay Tilley to senior vice president and general manager of Sanborn's Colorado Springs office, effective immediately. Tilley, who most recently served as...

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (GA, USA) has announced the release of Image Analysis for ArcGIS V9.1 and Stereo Analyst for ArcGIS V9.1. These image processing and stereo feature collection tools...