In the vibrant city of San Francisco 1,250 professionals from 56 countries joined the 2005 edition of Intergraph’s user conference Geospatial World, held from 25th to 28th April. This year’s...

The Middle East, and in particular the Gulf area, has been undergoing a spectacular metamorphosis over the past three decades. Radical change, and the huge construction and other developmental activities...

Vibrant creations from drawings and paintings to watercolour and knitting create a montage of subtle insight about the earth in the new ESRI Press book Children Map the World. The...

Excessive groundwater extraction is probably the main factor causing land subsidence in urban areas of Indonesia. Decreases in groundwater level may reach 15 metres a year. Monitoring of land subsidence...

Trimble (CA, USA) has announced the keynote speaker line up for its International User Conference—Trimble Dimensions 2005. With more than 150 track sessions, the conference focuses on applying technology to...

The Third International on Early Warning will be hosted by Germany under the auspices of the United Nations in Bonn, Germany from 27 to 29 March 2006. Through the Indian...

As successor to the first GIS PLANET 98 conference, Planet 2005 took place in Estoril, the scenic beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Lisbon, Portugal from 30th May...

GIS is coming of age! The biggest evidence for this is the vast majority of young people I saw strolling through the hallways and conference and exhibition rooms of the...

The continuing growth and exciting prospects facing the GIS industry were well reflected at the annual ESRI International User Conference held at the Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA...

To succeed in a world where globalisation is a key socio-economic process the geo-industry needs to think and act without frontiers. So states the organiser of the Intergeo conference and...