The 4th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) was held in Tokyo, Japan from 28th to 31st March 2005 with the theme ‘Digital Earth as Global Commons’. The more than...

The debate on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has reached a level of maturity that encourages reflection and facilitates evaluation of past experience. The author considers some emerging trends in the...

eSpatial (Ireland) has announced the release of iSMART Xtra for GE Smallworld. Developed in collaboration with Realworld, a Smallworld & Oracle solutions partner, iSMART Xtra for Smallworld provides a standards-based,...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) has announced that the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) has purchased the company's Z/I Imaging DMC. The DMC will enable ICC, the official...

LizardTech (WA, USA) has announced support for viewing MrSID and JPEG 2000 files on the Mac OS X platform. With LizardTech’s ExpressView Browser Plug-in for Macintosh users can access MrSID...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping (GA, USA) has appointed Jim Farley vice-president business development. Mr Farley has spent more than twenty years in the information technology industry in both mainstream...

The Spanish NSDI, named IDEE for 'Infra-estructura de Datos Espaciales de España' (www.idee.es), is a SDI of SDIs following the decentralised structure of Spanish Government: national, regional and local. It...

PCI Geomatics' Geomatica software and training services are helping the Multinational Andean Project: Geoscience for Andean Communities (MAP:GAC) with disaster planning and prediction. The MAP:GAC project was established to provide...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) has introduced a new trademark licensing fee structure that increases the value of membership for current members while making new membership more affordable. The...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) has introduced the 3D photogrammetric Z/I Mouse to simplify digitising and data capture in stereo. With a radical ergonomic design, this mouse represents...