This symposium, held at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (WI), USA from 24th to 25th June 2005, was organised by FIG Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management. Land...

A9.com, Inc. (CA, USA), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (WA, USA), has launched ‘A9.com Maps’, a new service that shows users an interactive map and corresponding street-level images in a...

Racurs is privately owned company established from scratch in Moscow in 1993 without any start-up capital. The four founders, with backgrounds in the Russian defence industry and the Russian Academy...

Google Inc. (CA, USA) has announced the launch of Google Earth, Google's new satellite imagery-based mapping product that combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search. Based...

Carlson Software (KY, USA) has announced the latest release of Carlson Survey 2006 which is the standalone version that includes the AutoCAD oem version built at a special low price....

The EU's Transport, Telecommunic-ations and Energy Council has given permission to the Commission to open negotiations with the Ukraine on a 'co-operation agreement' relating to the development of Europe's satellite...

In the last quarter of 2004, Fugro (The Netherlands) completed the survey of more than 100,000 kilometres using their helicopter-based laser altimetry system FLI-MAP. The 100,000th kilometre was surveyed for...

The Hungarian Border Guard has deployed a Command and Control System (BOGCOS) based on an Intergraph geospatial data management product. The system supports control operations both along the national boundary...

Topcon (The Netherlands) has released the FC-2000, a rugged Windows CE field computer designed specifically for surveying applications. The new model will replace the FC-1000. It features a full-colour 320x240...

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...