At the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) we provide a variety of geospatial data acquisition, processing, visualisation and application development services for clients in fields including public health, environmental analysis,...

The 20th European Conference for ESRI Users took place from 26th to 28th October 2005 in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. A third ESRI European Education...

The status and quality of cartography in the school curriculum needs to be raised. Map-related pedagogy is poorly developed in most countries and non-existent in many. There is an increasing...

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has announced its participation in a demonstration of interoperable emergency communications. On 29 March 2005, more than 80 state, local and federal organisations and more than...

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (PA, USA) will host a day-long Geospatial Research and Technology Seminar adjacent to BE Conference 2005. The seminar is being organised by Dr. Dipl-Ing. Siyka Zlatanova and...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS Implementation Specification...

This product survey is the third in a series entitled ‘Spatial Data Management in Geo databases’ (‘RDBMS’). A trend can be observed in integration of spatial data with other attributes...

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 ESRI Survey and GIS Summit 2005 will now include engineering and engineering design tracks and presentations. The summit, taking place 23-26 July 2005, brings professionals together with the goal...

Core geo-demographic data in a GIS-compatible format derived from decennial US censuses has greatly benefited marketers, social scientists and governments. It has also inspired development of similar datasets in other...