In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...

Two important articles, both from Canada, in the present issue of GIM International are on imaging radar. One article focuses on Canada’s second SAR earth observation satellite: RADARSAT-2. This satellite...

Mercy Corps (OR, USA) is requesting financial contributions to assist the ongoing emergency response of the Mercy Corps Geospatial Relief & Development Team in South Asia. The organisation currently has...

The pan-European research platform EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) will host a forthcoming international conference on merging map data from different sources, especially the satellite-based GPS. The conference, “Achieving geometric...

Tele Atlas (Germany) has established a close co-operation with the Roskartographia agency, which is supervised by the Ministry of Transport in Russia. The result is that Tele Atlas is able...

Plans for a new national, high-quality spatial address infrastructure building are announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), Ordnance Survey and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)...

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...

Aerial photography company BlueSky (UK) has created a series of contour maps, terrain models and perspective views from archived black and white aerial photography to aid site and infrastructure development...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced MapObjects-Java Edition Version 2.1. MapObjects-Java Edition is a collection of pure Java client and server-side components used to build custom, cross platform mapping and GIS...

The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 (see review 'Digital Earth Facing Challenges' July 2005). The head of the...