The consortium involving IGN France International/IGN France and IMAO won the tender for the completion of the Benin national base map. The project officially started on 16 December 2014 with...

Dephos Software, Poland, has released a fully functional beta version of LiMON Viewer, a data viewer for airborne, mobile and terrestrial laser scanning. LiMON Viewer can visualise and handle a...

The GSDI Association was created in 2003 to carry on the tradition of the Global SDI conferences that began in Bonn, Germany, in 1996. Since then, 14 GSDI conferences have...

Intergeo 2014 in Berlin has demonstrated that the industry has secured its place in the digital, networked world. Geoinformation has evolved from a specialist niche and is becoming part of...

The International Map Year (IMY) project, approved by the United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2012, will be spearheaded by the International Cartographic Association and run...

The geomatics industry is facing increasing challenges. It spans a broad range of careers, yet there are not enough qualified specialists to be found. Intergeo, taking place from 8 to...

Bon A. Dewitt, Rongxing Li, Richard A. Pearsall, Karen L. Schuckman and Douglas A. Stow have been named the 2014 ASPRS Fellow Award winners. The ASPRS designation of Fellow is...

The Handheld Group, Sweden, has appointed Christopher Peskin as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Peskin brings more than 15 years of valuable industry experience to Handheld, from Hewlett Packard and Trimble....

Nineteen GISCorps volunteers have recently been deployed to three new missions and one existing mission. A GIS database specialist is assisting the American Red Cross with a project in Haiti,...

The Handheld Group, with headquarters in Lidköping in southwestern Sweden, is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of rugged mobile computers and PDAs, and the fastest growing company in its sector....