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...

CDR Group (UK) has announced the release of the updated version of their popular plotting application for MapInfo Professional, MIPLOT Version 7.07. The new release includes extra features and updates,...

The Società Generale d’Informatica S.p.A. (SOGEI), a division of the Italian Ministry of Finance, has renewed and expanded its use of Xmarc. The contract renewal for approximately € 300,000 provides...

Laser-Scan (UK) and Intergraph Portugal deliver a solution to ensure accurate agricultural grant payments to Portuguese farmers. The National Institute of Agricultural Intervention and Guarantee (INGA) is a Portuguese government...

The third meeting of the Space Council – a joint and concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council (Internal Market/ Industry/...

Aligned Assets (UK) has launched EasyPlot, a plotting utility for creating mapping layouts in MapInfo at sizes ranging for A4 to A0. The application offers a range of standard templates...

Cadcorp (UK) has announced that its Cadcorp SIS software suite is now able to connect directly to ESRI ArcIMS Image Services. This new capability builds on the multi-format support that...

Info-Dynamics Research Associates Ltd (I-DRA) are engaged in a number of standards and interoperability activities, including a recently funded INSPIRE-GMES data harmonisation project within the European Union 6th RTD Framework...

One significant focus of ICA work comes from the members of the ICA Commission on Marine Cartography. It has few members but they interact effectively with a number of other...