15th July, Durban, South Africa The World Heritage Committee chaired by Themba Wakashe, South Africa’s deputy director-general for Heritage and National Archives has inscribed seventeen cultural sites on the UNESCO...

Many countries in Africa are on the way towards having a formal, national strategy on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Somalia, however, after fifteen years of civil strife, is lagging behind....

Thales (France) has introduced MobileMapper Pro Package with sub- metre post-processing as a standard feature. Mobile workers will continue to secure 2-3 metre real-time accuracy in the field, but can...

Map Asia 2005 is the 4th Annual Asian Conference and Exhibition in the field of geographic information technologies like GIS, GPS, Aerial Photography, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry. It will feature...

The idea of a Working Group (WG) on the History of Colonial Cartography came up in 2003. During the ICA Conference in Durban, South Africa, a group of delegates felt...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association has announced the GSDI Small Grants Program for the year 2005. The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association is dedicated to international co-operation and...

‘Knowledge and Action for the Earth’ is the theme of Intergeo 2006, the annual geodesy and geo-information conference and trade-fair organised in association with the German Association of Surveying (DVW)...

Topcon (CA, USA) now offers a GIS module for the latest version of TopSURV. Operators using Topcon’s survey-grade RTK GPS systems for conventional land survey tasks can now use the...

Thales (CA, USA) has introduced ProMark3. With ProMark3 surveyors can reduce their field data collection time by up to 33% over competitive offerings. ProMark3 also offers both centimetre accuracy in...

A conference organised by the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy on Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Africa took place in Bagamoyo, Tanzania from March 13th to 17th 2006....