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...

In a world where everyone is constantly on the move, simulation and analysis of characteristics of the movement of objects is increasingly important, not only for behaviour forecast and policy/decision-making...

The second annual Intergeo-East for professionals from south-eastern Europe, especially the former countries of Yugoslavia, took place at Zagrebac¢ki velesajam (Zagreb Fair), Croatia from 7th to 9th March 2005. Zagreb...

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...

The Expert Group Meeting on Secure Tenure: ‘New legal frameworks and tools’, was held at the UN Conference Centre in Bangkok from 8th to 9th December 2005. More than fifty...

Vibrant creations from drawings and paintings to watercolour and knitting create a montage of subtle insight about the earth in the new ESRI Press book Children Map the World. The...

The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) (CO, USA) has announced that it has published a white paper, What Is GIS: A Profession, Niche, or Tool? that examines a long-running...

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...

To succeed in a world where globalisation is a key socio-economic process the geo-industry needs to think and act without frontiers. So states the organiser of the Intergeo conference and...

Cell-Life, a research team based at the University of Cape Town, investigates technology-based solutions for HIV/AIDS management in South Africa. Many communities have little or no access to spatial information...