GIS is coming of age! The biggest evidence for this is the vast majority of young people I saw strolling through the hallways and conference and exhibition rooms of the...

The Intergeo 2005, a conference and trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management world-wide, will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany from 4 to 6 October. The successful concept of...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...

Extraction of information from satellite images is a solution for countries without up-to-date base maps. Such images can be easily obtained and cover vast areas. Information is mostly extracted using...

‘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)...

Core geo-demographic data in a GIS-compatible format derived from decennial US censuses has greatly benefited marketers, social scientists and governments. It has also inspired development of similar datasets in other...

The fourth annual GML and Geo-Spatial Web Services Conference (formerly GML Days) took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada from 18th to 22nd July. The two days of workshops and the...

Tele Atlas (NH, USA) and ESRI (CA, USA) will present five US and Canadian educators with scholarships to attend the 2005 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC). Tele Atlas will provide...

The fourth module of EduServ4, Educational Service of EuroSDR, will take place in Spring 2006. This has been announced by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)...

Government, whether central or state, primarily propels the Indian GIS market. MapIndia 2006 aimed to measure progress and delve into the elements enabling ‘finding the mainstream’. According to the organisers...