The first international conference on Cartography and GIS took place at the ski-resort of Borovets in Bulgaria from 25th to 28th January 2006. The main goal was to introduce modern...

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...

Bentley hosted its first European user conference two weeks after the one in Charlotte, USA. More than a thousand participants met in Prague from 11th to 14th June for training,...

ISPRS wants to expand its international role and to develop a presence in developing countries, says this month’s interviewee. Ian Dowman, president of ISPRS, the organisation that since April 2006...

ISPRS wants to expand its international role and to develop a presence in developing countries, says this month’s interviewee. Ian Dowman, president of ISPRS, the organisation that since April 2006...

Over past decades, as GIS grew from infancy to relative adulthood in the rest of the world Africa remained a white spot on the GIS map. Considering the size of...

The status and quality of cartography in the school curriculum needs to be raised. Map-related pedagogy is poorly developed in most countries and non-existent in many. There is an increasing...

Global Imaging Technologies (GIT) is a small, privately owned company founded in 1999 by CEO Ryan Johnson and located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, close to Baltimore (USA). The early years...

Two months before his term of office ends in December, FIG president Holger Magel will arrive at its highlight: FIG XXIII Congress, 'Shaping the Change', to be held in his...

Two months before his term of office ends in December, FIG president Holger Magel will arrive at its highlight: FIG XXIII Congress, 'Shaping the Change', to be held in his...