Mercy Corps (OR, USA) is requesting financial contributions to assist the ongoing emergency response of the Mercy Corps Geospatial Relief & Development Team in South Asia. The organisation currently has...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced significant additions to the data offered via ArcWeb Services. Highlights of the added data include premium imagery from GlobeXplorer, road network data from NAVTEQ, detailed...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

Many surveyors are involved in land consolidation projects at technical and managerial level. The matrix of objectives, procedures and tools which constitute land consolidation is under major change, as is...

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...

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,...

DM Solutions Group (Canada) and Orkney (Japan) announced a partnership to jointly deliver an internationalised version of MapServer. Orkney provides business and technical GIS consulting services throughout Asia. Through this...

The Third Annual ESRI Survey and GIS Summit will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California from 23–26 July 2005. The summit focuses on integrating...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced the ESRI Developer Network (EDN), an annual subscription-based program. The objectives of the program include providing developers with GIS tools and resources based 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...