Everyone who truly matters in the geomatics and surveying-related business will be travelling to Germany ¨C or more precisely to the Bavarian city of Nuremberg ¨C in the last week...

Cansel has acquired Autodraft. The combination of Cansel, Global CADD Systems, a division of Cansel, and Autodraft will create Canada's only provider of integrated software, hardware and services solutions for...

Interest in surveying the inside of buildings is on the rise as computer-run digital floor plans are increasingly adopted for facility management. This is causing architects and surveyors alike to...

An association has been launched to support the education, promotion, and development of those working within the 3D world: The ‘3d Professional Association,’ also known as ‘3dPA’. The mission of...

  The eleventh South East Asian Survey Congress was held this year in the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, home town of FIG president Teo CheeHai. Under the...

Floor plan surveying software is a tool for creating onsite floor plans using a handheld device. Developed by OrthoGraph from its base in Graphisoft Park in Budapest, Hungary, the software...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC,USA) seeks public comment on Version 1.1 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) Encoding Standard. Comments are due by 14 September 2011. CityGML is...

KOREC, UK, has signed a distribution agreement with FARO Technologies UK to supply the FARO Focus3D Laser Scanner, an instrument which uses laser technology to produce detailed three-dimensional images of...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks comments on an OGC discussion paper, 'Requirements and Space-Event Modelling for Indoor Navigation'. Just as digital technologies such as GPS and web mapping mediate...

Plowman Craven has extended its 3D laser scanning capability with the new HDS7000 terrestrial laser scanning system from Leica Geosystems. The company has now procured one of the UK's first...