This year’s annual conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) took place from 7th to 11th March, with the theme ‘Geospatial Goes Global: From Your Neighbourhood...

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures, a new book from ESRI Press, provides an overview of the developments in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) over the last 10 to 15 years....

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has announced its participation in a demonstration of interoperable emergency communications. On 29 March 2005, more than 80 state, local and federal organisations and more than...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (PA, USA) will host a day-long Geospatial Research and Technology Seminar adjacent to BE Conference 2005. The seminar is being organised by Dr. Dipl-Ing. Siyka Zlatanova and...

Galdos Systems Inc. will host the GML Days 2005 held from 18th -22nd July in Vancouver, Canada. GML Days 2005 is the fourth annual conference on the OGC Geography Markup...

The X Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Geographic Information Systems (XIBCGIS) will take place in the San Juan City (Puerto Rico) on 6 to 9 September 2005. The organisation...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC (GA, USA) has announced that it has partnered with University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), naming it the inaugural Center of...

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

For the past ten years, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211, Geographic information/Geomatics has been working on standards development. It is now completing an initial set of...

The ESRI Survey and GIS Summit 2005 will now include engineering and engineering design tracks and presentations. The summit, taking place 23-26 July 2005, brings professionals together with the goal...