The Annual International ESRI User Conference takes place from 7 to 11 August in San Diego, California, US. At the accompanying exhibition many companies from all over the world present...

The third meeting of the Space Council – a joint and concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council (Internal Market/ Industry/...

Hans Hess (50), executive director of the board and CEO, has informed the board of directors that he is to step down as CEO of Leica Geosystems AG at the...

The debate on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has reached a level of maturity that encourages reflection and facilitates evaluation of past experience. The author considers some emerging trends in the...

FIG Working Week 2005 and the 8th International Conference on Global Spatial Data Infrastructure will be held in Cairo from 16th to 21st April 2005. The Organising Committee consists of...

The dramatic and, in some cases, damaging environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas launched to mark World Environment Day (WED). Produced by...

On 9th September 2004, a 27-member Committee took charge of the implementation of the Geo-Information (GI) Policy and National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (NGDI) in Nigeria. During the inauguration ceremony, the...

Tele Atlas (Germany) has established a close co-operation with the Roskartographia agency, which is supervised by the Ministry of Transport in Russia. The result is that Tele Atlas is able...

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...

Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging (GA, USA) has announces three new product releases; ERDAS IMAGINE V9.0, LPS V9.0 and Leica Virtual Explorer. ERDAS IMAGINE V9.0 The latest version offers enhanced geospatial...