NAVTEQ (IL, USA) released an enhanced map of Mexico to its direct customers for integration into navigation and location-based solutions. In addition to providing the road network of Mexico City,...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) has integrated extended lane information into its maps of six European countries. The extended lane attributes are now available for select junctions on motorways and roads to...

G-Source Industrial Corp. (Taiwan) introduced BG-521B, a Bluetooth GPS receiver, which integrates the Xtrac software and a Flash-based program memory. The BG-521B has 12 parallel satellite-tracking channels and a built-in...

Tripod Data Systems (TDS) (OR, USA) has released the next generation of its TDS Ranger rugged data collector featuring Survey Pro. The new Ranger features a faster processor, more storage...

Mega-cities suffer increasingly from manmade and natural disasters such as fire, collapse, poison-gas leak, bombing, and tsunami, leading to huge loss of life and assets on, above and below ground....

After twenty years existence, Vexcel Corporation has been taken over by giant of the information technology industry Microsoft. The acquisition, which turns Vexcel into a Microsoft subsidiary, was announced at...

FIG 2002 Congress in Washington was presented with a proposal to develop a (shared) Core Cadastral Domain Model, the FIG CCDM. Such a model broadly covers land registration and cadastre...

Cadcorp (UK) has announced that its Cadcorp SIS software suite is now able to connect directly to ESRI ArcIMS Image Services. This new capability builds on the multi-format support that...

Information plays a key role in support of virtually any activity, in whatever nook or cranny of today’s society. About 80% of all public-sector information have geo-spatial component, referenced either...

Many disaster mitigation and management activities involve sharing of geospatial information, and such sharing depends on standards that enable multiple systems to behave as one system. ‘Behaving as one system’...