The limitations of current 2D-GIS and 3D-Visualisation leads to the question of how to use GIScience technologies in handling emergencies in urban buildings and their immediate environment. Geospatial technologies have...

Time has been incorporated as a fourth dimension in the GIS systems of Arak municipality, Iran, and object-oriented concepts applied. The augmented system has resulted in better quality and an...

The market for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has never looked so buoyant. Are we in the midst of a revolution or simply witnessing evolution pre-planned and destined to run...

Most countries have a land recording system consisting of cadastre and land registration, the former in the hands of surveyors, the latter notaries and lawyers. In many countries this subdivision...

Last month’s ICA page introduced the Commission on Education and Training. The chair of the commission this month describes one specific project, the ICA-sponsored Internet Cartography Teaching Programme. The idea...

Without information we live blindly. Without information there is no planning, no understanding, no action taking, no communication…. Information is what makes the world go round. Although Earth Observation (EO)...

At the end of the tumultuous eighteenth century the British government ordered its Board of Ordnance, the defence ministry of its day, to survey the country’s south coast. Today Ordnance...

A spin-off from the renowned Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Technology, 3D Geo GmbH develops and sells solutions for 3D visualisation of cities and the management thereof. Its main...

Trimble (CA, USA)) has announced the keynote speakers for its International User Conference, Trimble Dimensions 2007. The conference, which will be held 5-7 November at the Mirage Hotel in Las...

A world without poverty, hunger, pandemics and anguish, a world offering basic education for every child, equality, freedom and brother- and sisterhood; it is a world we might dream of....