Standards are of great interest to surveyors, both as professionals and as business people. Early and active engagement with the process of standardisation by professional bodies such as the International...

Google Earth has been mentioned at least once at every meeting or conference of GIS-related professionals I’ve attended over the past year. It was even briefly referred to during defence...

ICA has recently approved the formation of a new Working Group (WG) on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage. The philosophy behind the group is simple but challenging: to study the...

It is official: Microsoft Corp. has acquired Vexcel Corp. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. According to Microsoft this deal, the second in the past six months for...

The governments of many African countries are currently investing in improving land administration with the aim of developing an efficient land market. A side objective is to reduce conflicts over...

DVP-GS is a small Canada-based business founded in 1988 to market software products resulting from research into digital photogrammetry at Laval University. This month’s interviewee, Remi Jean, president DVP-GS, is...

DVP-GS is a small Canada-based business founded in 1988 to market software products resulting from research into digital photogrammetry at Laval University. This month’s interviewee, Remi Jean, president DVP-GS, is...

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...

Mega-cities suffer increasingly from manmade and natural disasters such as fire, collapse, poison-gas leak, bombing, and tsunami, leading to huge loss of life and assets on, above and below ground....

This spring I was alerted by newspaper article to a marvellous TV programme. It was ‘Springwatch’, broadcast by the BBC. For three weeks on air, and on the beautiful website...