Virtualgeo was established in 1994 as a spin-off from an established survey company active in the field of topographic survey and infrastructure planning since 1985. Virtualgeo has three offices in...

In 1996 staff of what would become Southern Mapping Company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, were among the first in the world to offer commercial aerial Lidar (light detection and...

An Indian geospatial magazine in April 2008 released a survey demonstrating how, although still adolescent, the Indian geospatial industry showed immense potential. The survey pegged the overall 2006-07 worth of...

Increasing use of geo-information in "smart phones" and PDAs has led to users being disorientated by map displays on small screens, while outdated maps, storage capacity and processing power further...

Relatively new to the spatial-information world and receiving increasing attention, the geosensor network is based on a large number of interlinked,simple sensors distributed over geographical space and able automatically to...

In the August 2005 ICA contribution to these pages we reported on the increased interest in tactile mapping evident at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in A Coruna that month....

From 30th September to 2nd October, geodesy, geoinformation and land management took centre stage in Bremen, Germany. Intergeo 2008, organised by HINTE GmbH in association with the German Association of...

Pictometry International Corp. (NY, USA), along with subcontractors ITT Corporation (Space Systems Division) and Harris RF Communications, has been awarded a Phase II contract totaling USD750,000 from the Department of...

Every healthcare provider, in order to make decisions, needs specific information from external sources made available to them more than fifty times a day. The challenge is obvious: better methods...

Trimble announced the keynote speakers for its International User Conference Trimble Dimensions 2006. The conference, which will be held 6-8 November at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, focuses on...