On 23rd October 2007, at the annual Geoint Symposium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc (OGC) announced that Microsoft Corporation had joined the organisation as a Principal Member. This important milestone...

The 5th Annual Conference SPAR on 3d laser scanning, mobile survey, lidar, dimensional control, asset management, BIM/CAD/GIS Integration is being held from 3 to 5 March at the InterContinental Hotel,...

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (MA, USA) is requesting public comment on the candidate CityGML Encoding Standard. CityGML is a Geography Markup Language 3 (GML3) application schema for the storage...

Safe Software (Canada) has announced new advancements in spatial data access with the release of FME 2008. The release includes the unveiling of FME Server, a scalable solution for data...

Hewlett Packard (HP) celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its Barcelona site this year. The company has a portfolio spanning printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, and Barcelona is...

Sustainability was the key word at this year’s Bentley Conference, expressed not only by its theme, ‘Best Practices for Sustaining Infrastructure’, but also through other initiatives, including the attempt to...

Safe Software FME now offers read and write support for CityGML 1.0. This new support enables users to convert CityGML data into the formats their applications use and also allows...

A Building Information Model (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a building. Construction and management of buildings involves many stake­holders, so that proper sharing of...

VirtualcitySYSTEMS, head­quartered in Dresden, Germany, is a privately owned company.     One of the earliest 3D-city models created by virtualcitySYSTEMS (VCS) dates back to 2001, when the mayor of...

Safe Software has announced the release of FME 2009 a spatial data conversion and distribution solution. This new version, which includes releases of FME Desktop and FME Server, has been...