For the past fifteen years Sivan Design, a privately held GIS solutions provider from Israel, has concentrated on developing an approach which combines GIS, CAD and 3D technologies...

    The Third Applied Geoinformatics for Society and Environment conference took place in August 2010 in Arequipa, jointly organised by Stuttgart University of Appli...

The Third Applied Geoinform-atics for Society and Envir-onment conference took place in August 2010 in Arequipa, jointly organised by Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (SUAS...

  The breaking up of the Russian tanker Nakhodka in stormy weather in the Sea of Japan on 2nd January 1997 resulted in over six million litres of spilled oil reaching the c...

    The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for the Kingdom of Bahrain was officially implemented in February 2005 by the GIS Directorate of the Central Info...

As part of an ongoing project to bring to city managers, citizens, tourists and others geo-data of the Golden Horn area of Istanbul, Turkey, the authors designed a geo-database acc...

The Finnish innovation SoftGIS refers to a collection of internet-based surveys which allow the locality-based study of human experiences and everyday behaviour. SoftGIS enables th...

Author, professor, and originator of Map Algebra, Dana Tomlin was inducted into the URISA GIS Hall of Fame in 2010. It was an honour bestowed in recognition of his many distinguish...

Three ages of Geographic Information Users may now be discerned: past, in public administration; current, commercial; and future, personal.PastThe 1970s saw Geographic Information...

Today the computer power of handheld devices is comparable to the desktop computers of a few years back. Together with rapid adoption of the internet, this progress has triggered f...

Imagery will be a future integral part of GIS. Some will argue that it already is. Some will even say that pictures are the basis, the fundamentals of GIS. Well, I can at least say...

The need for geospatial display of forest areas encouraged three freshly graduated forest engineers fifteen years ago to pioneer the production of GIS-based software applications f...

A sub-discipline of geoinformation science is devoted to partitioning remote-sensing imagery into meaningful image-objects and assessing their characteristics through spatial, spec...

The basic notion of establishing a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is to collect geo-data once and then use it many, many times for a wide variety of applications, thus saving ma...

Since its founding in Ankara in 1989, Netcad has been fully focused on developing CAD and GIS software using its own resources. The main products, marketed under the same generic b...

In Johannesburg, one of the cities hosting this summer's FIFA World Cup, GIS specialists at the Corporate Geo-Infomatics Directorate are working hard to ensure their city, departme...

The 2009 ESRI Middle East and North Africa User Conference (MEAUC) took place from 10th to 12th November in Manama, Bahrain, at the Diplomat Radisson Blu Hotel. The MEAUC is design...

Response to Holger Magel (2) Online comments on Holger Magel's Blog column on rural capacity building, published in the October issue of GIM International: Ciprian S.: "I strongly...

According to top GIS educator and spatial thinker Dr Joseph Kerski, the development and use of geotechnologies is crucial not just as an educational tool, but also in determining t...

Located in Taiwan, SuperGeo is a company based on GIS, RS and GPS technologies and dedicated to developing and marketing GIS software all over the world. This relatively young comp...