Developing countries still have a need for mapping systems that are low-cost, simple to operate by local operators, fast in production and yet meet the needs of the application. A...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has released version 4.0 of its map display library GeoObjects, offering a 32-bit COM control for spatial data access, display and analysis, needed for developing...

RMSI (CA, USA), a publisher and distributor of geographic information for the United States, has developed Universal Map: an exhaustive carto-graphy geo-database covering entire North America. The project, demanding technical...

Hitachi Software Global Technology (CO, USA) and Pictometry (NY, USA) have signed an agreement under the terms of which Hitachi Software has modified its HouseDiff change-detection software to use Pictometry...

ESRI Sweden has deployed the ArcIMS Open Location Services (OpenLS) connector as part of a project to improve TeliaSonera mapping engine capabilities for location-based services across Scandinavia. Together with Tele...

IONIC (Belgium) has released RedSpider Web version 3.2, with support for both English and French. The product offers the functionality for building an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) within an...

DiMAC Systems s.à.r.l., a privately owned company established in Luxemburg in November 2003, focuses on developing and producing aerial digital cameras for photogrammetric and orthophoto requirements. The belief underpinning the...

You are, as a geomatics professional, working in one of the most rapidly growing areas of the world economy. Geomatics is all around us and there is loads of work...

The 4th International Conference and Exhibition Laser Scanning and Digital Aerial Photography was recently successfully held with the theme of ‘Today and Tomorrow’. More than 170 participants from twelve countries...

Writing the second edition of our GIS and Science textbook with three colleagues made me acutely aware of two very different approaches to exploiting GIS when we suffer major disasters:...