FIG founding member Consiglio Nazionale Geometri (CNG) held its 43rd National Congress at the famous top hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo from 17th to 22nd October. FIG president Prof. Holger...

As society becomes more reliant on image-based information for the purposes of mobility many people are excluded precisely by the visual nature of these graphic representations. An important example is...

The subject of this Expert Group Meeting was the improvement of land tenure security through new legal frameworks and new and better tools. New land laws have recently come into...

The theoretical basis of cartography is of fundamental importance. There are many conceptual issues involved in representing space, many of which are of interest to the ICA Commission on Theoretical...

Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Americas Forum Aguascalienties, Mexico, 26th – 27th October 2004 The Government of Mexico hosted a Special Forum through the Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geo-grafía e...

This report covers the latest in a series of meetings on the use and applications of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) hosted by the United Nations Office for Outer Space...

There is a worldwide need to build understanding of the Land Management Paradigm and for institutional development to establish sustainable national concepts. This includes creation and adoption of a policy...

Racurs is privately owned company established from scratch in Moscow in 1993 without any start-up capital. The four founders, with backgrounds in the Russian defence industry and the Russian Academy...

A Land Administration System (LAS) consolidating rights to rural land has been developed in the Amhara Region in Ethiopia. Since the start of the project in 2002 over 2.4 million...

The Commission on Map Projections was founded just two years ago within the International Cartographic Association (ICA). As the first international organisation dedicated to small-scale geographic map projections, it may...