Many disaster mitigation and management activities involve sharing of geospatial information, and such sharing depends on standards that enable multiple systems to behave as one system. ‘Behaving as one system’...

Population explosion and rapid urbanisation in India over the past two decades has introduced problems associated with informal settlements. Lack of local authority current and accurate databases complicates any preventative...

A9.com, Inc. (CA, USA), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (WA, USA), has launched ‘A9.com Maps’, a new service that shows users an interactive map and corresponding street-level images in a...

Postcode maps are key for the GIS industry in opening up the mass business market. Virtually all companies today need spatial data for sales, marketing and controlling departments and the...

For the past four years British Columbia, Canada has been compiling a common cadastral base map for the joint benefit of stakeholders in three sectors: provincial (state) government, local municipal...

As of November, GfK MACON (Germany) is supplying the new 2005 version of the digital map edition Europe Postal and Administrative. The 2004 map set has been completely revised and...

Applanix (Canada) has announced the launch of its POS AV 610 (Position and Orientation System - Airborne Vehicles), designed for direct georeferencing of airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and high-altitude...

SCP Software Co. (Germany) has bundled its scan-to-print software Colorado Express with all Colortrac SmartLF large-format scanners. Since mid-2004 all scanners in Colortrac's enhanced series have been delivered with a...

China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) has embarked on Digital China, an ambitious project listed in China's 10th five-year plan that aims to map the entire country digitally....

Amongst the awards instituted by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal. First awarded in 1980 to the ‘dean of European cartographers’ Prof. Imhof of Switzerland,...