Several years ago Navarre (Spain) implemented a Land Information System (SITNA) within its corporate Information System. Notwithstanding the success of this initiative there remains a lack of metadata, an issue...

The third international conference on "Earth from Space" took place from 4th to 6th December in Moscow, Russia, with the theme "Most Effective Solutions". This meeting, accompanied by a small...

However, recent disasters have also shown shortcomings in existing technologies and policies. Pertinent among these are the many barriers that exist in making available and providing the most appropriate (geo-)information...

On a map showing the countries of the world according to the size of their carbon footprint, the Northern Hemisphere is roughly twice as big as it is in reality...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) has issued a Call for Participation (CFP) in the "Architecture Implementation Pilot," which is a coordinated interoperability initiative of GEOSS, FedEO and...

Bentley and Delft University of Technology (both The Netherlands) will host a half-day Geospatial Research Seminar at BE Conference Europe. The theme is "Creating Spatial Information Infrastructures," and presentations will...

Jarmo Ratia, CEO, National Land Survey of Finland, left office as president of the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association during the tenth conference, held from 25th to 29th February...

International experts present the latest research in the development of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in a new book from ESRI Press. Research and Theory in Advancing Spatial Data Infrastructure Concepts...

A SDI is a framework of technologies, data, policies, institutional arrangements and people aimed at increasing the availability, understanding and use of spatial data and services to support policy, business,...

A SDI is a framework of technologies, data, policies, institutional arrangements and people aimed at increasing the availability, understanding and use of spatial data and services to support policy, business,...