The Metropolitan Region of Hamburg (Hamburg and its surrounding fourteen districts) is a strong, dynamic and prospering urban centre in Northern Germany where developments are advanced by the political programme...

The first international conference on Cartography and GIS took place at the ski-resort of Borovets in Bulgaria from 25th to 28th January 2006. The main goal was to introduce modern...

GE Energy (GA, USA) has announced that Entergy Corporation (LA, USA) has expanded its implementation of the Smallworld geospatial software product suite by selecting the Cornerstone Gas Productivity Pack for...

Sivan Design Ltd was founded by its present CEO, Shlomo Sivan and David Sivan, and incorporated as a privately held company in 1996. Since its inception the company has been...

In the midst of a map-consumer delivery revolution, the ICA ‘Maps and the Internet Commission’ formed in 1999 continues its work analysing, developing, communicating and educating regarding this new medium....

Surveying/geomatics education programmes for the training of professional surveyors in Australia were introduced in each state in the second half of the twentieth century, replacing an articled pupil system that...

The Carbon Project (MA, USA), a company in Open-Geospatial .NET technology, has released an upgrade to its CarbonArc Lite interoperability extension for ESRI ArcGIS. CarbonArc Lite extends ArcGIS to use...

Laser-Scan (UK) and eSpatial (Ireland) announced an extension to their existing collaboration to jointly develop and promote SpatialTrust. Built on the combined components of iSMART5 and Radius Studio, the offering...

The Danish National Survey and Cadastre is the government organisation responsible for the geodetic network, the cadastral system, topogra–phical mapping and nautical charting in Denmark. This organisation also has overall...

Microsoft's MapPoint Business Unit was formed in 1995. The Virtual Earth platform was launched in 2005 as an integrated set of services combining imagery with mapping, location and search functionality....