The post-war construction of tall, modern buildings in Kyoto has generated heated debate on issues such as what kind of landscape is most beneficial for the city and how can...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA,. USA) has begun a 'GML in JPEG' Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification that defines how Geography Markup Language...

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures, a new book from ESRI Press, provides an overview of the developments in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) over the last 10 to 15 years....

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

The fourth annual GML and Geo-Spatial Web Services Conference (formerly GML Days) took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada from 18th to 22nd July. The two days of workshops and the...

Since its launch in June 2005 Google Earth has attracted not only the millions of people across the world who fly virtually across continents and jump over mountains, but has...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC (GA, USA) has announced that it has partnered with University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), naming it the inaugural Center of...

Rapidly evolving technologies such as Web services transform the former digital-map toolbox for specialists into a challenging digital peep-box for everyone. Introduced in 2005, Google Earth is one of the...

LizardTech delivers wavelet-based imaging software for managing and distributing massive high-resolution digital content such as aerial photography and satellite imagery and scanned colour documents. Main products include GeoExpress with MrSID...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) invites additional participation in a Web Processing Service Interoperability Experiment to test and refine a draft implementation specification enabling geoprocessing via the internet. Participants...