The Carbon Project (DC, USA) has announced it is providing a second session of its training course for professionals and students who want to quickly learn the basics of open-geospatial...

ESRI (CA, USA) and its international distributors are supporting response to the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster by working with government agencies and disaster relief organisations to provide...

The fourth GML relay will be held at the Dutch Topographic Service in Emmen, The Netherlands on 26th January 2006. As explained exactly a year ago in GIM International, Geography...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA), jointly with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and the North American Chapter of the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI-NA), has announced a...

A Web-sourced definition of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is “a written document executed by the parties which establishes policies or procedures of mutual concern. It does not require either party...

Special Forum Held at Aguascalientes, Mexico, 26-27 October 2004 This Special Forum on the Development of Land Information Policies for the Americas was based on a resolution adopted at the...

Galdos Systems Inc. will host the GML Days 2005 held from 18th -22nd July in Vancouver, Canada. GML Days 2005 is the fourth annual conference on the OGC Geography Markup...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MD, USA) has announced that the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) is establishing a new multidisciplinary, post-graduate research centre focusing on geospatial interoperability. The Centre...

Seven million users around the world make use of Autodesk software and services in the fields of infrastructure, manufacturing, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services. This month’s interviewee...

The Commission on Map Projections was founded just two years ago within the International Cartographic Association (ICA). As the first international organisation dedicated to small-scale geographic map projections, it may...