The Carbon Project (DC, USA) has announced it is providing a second session of its training course for professionals and students who want to quickly learn the basics of open-geospatial...

Carmenta has been delivering mission-critical Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) and map-based operational systems for more than a decade. We have focused primarily on the aviation and defence markets, but are...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS Implementation Specification...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association has announced the GSDI Small Grants Program for the year 2005. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international co-operation and...

M.O.S.S. Computer Grafik Systeme GmbH, Munich, Germany, a seventy-employee company, has developed and sold GIS, surveying, cartography and utilities software solutions for over fifteen years. M.O.S.S. participates in the Round...

In 1998 the GIS working group of the Geographical Institute of Bonn University started to work with the OpenGIS Simple Features Specification, which had just recently been adopted by OGC...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MD, USA) has announced that the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) is establishing a new multidisciplinary, post-graduate research centre focusing on geospatial interoperability. The Centre...

Galileo Group, Inc. (FL, USA) and Forest One, Inc. (MS, USA) have partnered to provide assistance to government agencies and private companies attempting to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The partnership...

The continuing growth and exciting prospects facing the GIS industry were well reflected at the annual ESRI International User Conference held at the Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA...

Maps lead marooned travellers through unfamiliar territory, arm the government with vital information, and guide school administrators to the best course of action. New from ESRI Press Designing Better Maps:...