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...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MA, USA) Review Board has approved the launch of the Geospatial Semantic Web (GSW) Interoperability Experiment (IE). The Interoperability Experiment will take several important steps...

Leica Geosystems AG (Switzerland) is rejecting the bid by Hexagon of Sweden as it undervalues the company and materially reduces its growth and development prospects. A combination with Hexagon would...

Use of the digital camera Vexcel UltraCam D was introduced in early 2004 by Aerodata International Surveys. Up until then solely analogue photo cameras such as the Zeiss LMK 2000...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has announcesd an update to their GeoCalc 6.1 developer tool kit. This fully object-oriented, cross platform version of Blue Marble's coordinate conversion libraries was created...

Excessive groundwater extraction is probably the main factor causing land subsidence in urban areas of Indonesia. Decreases in groundwater level may reach 15 metres a year. Monitoring of land subsidence...

Sanborn (CO, USA) has announced the promotion of Jay Tilley to senior vice president and general manager of Sanborn's Colorado Springs office, effective immediately. Tilley, who most recently served as...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) has introduced the 3D photogrammetric Z/I Mouse to simplify digitising and data capture in stereo. With a radical ergonomic design, this mouse represents...

Northport Systems (Canada) has released FUGAWI Map of America, a new software program that brings USGS 1:100,000 scale topographic maps of the entire continental USA in a low-priced package. The...

Digital Map Products (DMP) (CA, USA), a developer of Web-served mapping applications, has announced it has augmented its executive team with the addition of a new chief executive officer and...