Since June 2004 ICA has been publishing a monthly one-page column in GIM International. Dr David Fairbairn is responsible for ensuring content for the ICA page and is himself a...

At the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) we provide a variety of geospatial data acquisition, processing, visualisation and application development services for clients in fields including public health, environmental analysis,...

How much of the data collected by planners is actually used in a plan-making exercise? "Very little," a planner will discreetly reply. Only 60% of data actually become input for...

The 20th European Conference for ESRI Users took place from 26th to 28th October 2005 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. A third ESRI European Education...

The ICA Executive Committee held a meeting in Mexico City in February 2005 at the invitation of the Pan American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH). This business meeting resul-ted...

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...

Special Forum Held at Aguascalientes, Mexico, 26-27 October 2004 This Special Forum on the Development of Land Information Policies for the Americas was based on a resolution adopted at the...

The idea of including a new direction in ICA cartographic research, towards the mapping of planetary bodies, was raised by Russian cartographers at the seventeenth International Cartographic Conference (ICC) held...

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...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has announced the release of their new Geographic Map File Translator Version 3.0. The Translator has the latest support for ESRI Shape, MapInfo Tab and...