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...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

One of the main recommendations put forward at the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space – UNISPACE III – was the need to...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

Writing a text or revising a spreadsheet and saving it...editing a map or digital photo and saving it…a seemingly unlimited amount of data, all stored inside the computer on the...

To be honest, I had completely overlooked the link as well. And that doesn’t say much for me, a historian by trade. Okay, a few months as publication director with...

Trimble (CA, USA) and UK-based Cambridge Positioning Systems Limited (CPS) have announced plans to jointly develop new products that will deliver Enhanced Global Positioning System (E-GPS) location for asynchronous networks...

The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...

There is general agreement that spatial data is key to sustainable resource management and overall economic development. A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in turn provides the underlying foundation for accessing...