Avenza Systems Inc. (Canada) announces the release of MAPdata World, a 3 part set of royalty-free GIS map data covering the world at 1:15 million scale. This detailed world vector...

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...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced MapObjects-Java Edition Version 2.1. MapObjects-Java Edition is a collection of pure Java client and server-side components used to build custom, cross platform mapping and GIS...

In our July issue we published the first of two articles addressing the use of GPS in agricultural field measurement, particularly in relation to EU subsidy checks. In it the...

Colortrac (UK) has announced that Scan2CAD raster to vector conversion software now includes a dedicated driver to support large format drawing image acquisition directly from the Colortrac SmartLF series of...

Visual Learning Systems, Inc. (VLS) (MT, USA) has announced the official release of LIDAR Analyst, a solution for automating the collection of 3D features from LIDAR data. Early studies show...

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...

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has announced its participation in a demonstration of interoperable emergency communications. On 29 March 2005, more than 80 state, local and federal organisations and more than...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (PA, USA) will host a day-long Geospatial Research and Technology Seminar adjacent to BE Conference 2005. The seminar is being organised by Dr. Dipl-Ing. Siyka Zlatanova and...

Space Imaging Middle East (SIME) (Dubai) has announced that it has been awarded a contract to generate a 3D City Model of Dubai for the Dubai Police Command and Control...