For the past four years British Columbia, Canada has been compiling a common cadastral base map for the joint benefit of stakeholders in three sectors: provincial (state) government, local municipal...

Rapidly evolving technologies such as Web services transform the former digital-map toolbox for specialists into a challenging digital peep-box for everyone. Introduced in 2005, Google Earth is one of the...

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....

Since mankind exchanged his hunting and gathering existence for a life of land cultivation, enabling him to settle permanently on one spot, he has felt a need to portray the...

Where just two decades ago spatial data was mainly carried on paper maps, map and three-dimensional topographic data is now accessible via Google Earth. Where accurate positioning was once the...

‘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)...

There must be billions of them lying on bookshelves and languishing on coffee tables, in boxes in garrets and antiquarian bookshops; some will be brand new, almost never touched, others...

One of the main topics discussed at the Survey and GIS Summit preceding the ESRI User Conference 2006 (see my report in the October issue) was the reluctance of youngsters...

The Intergeo congress and trade-fair has now been held a dozen times and the event once again this year demonstrated an exceptionally flourishing geomatics business. Geomatics is all about improving...

The competitiveness of an organisation is negatively affected by poor data quality, as introduced through the multitude of transformations and transfers carried out on original data. One risk involves uncontrolled...