Autodesk (CA, USA) and Microsoft (WA, USA) have announced a cross-licensing agreement enabling each company to broaden its product offerings. Through this arrangement Autodesk and Microsoft will promote the exchange...

The Società Generale d’Informatica S.p.A. (SOGEI), a division of the Italian Ministry of Finance, has renewed and expanded its use of Xmarc. The contract renewal for approximately € 300,000 provides...

ESRI (CA, USA) has released ArcGIS 9.0.1, the latest version of its integrated collection of GIS software products. The release extends the supported platforms for ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Engine and...

LizardTech (WA, USA) has released GeoExpress version 5.0, with MrSID image processing software. The new version includes image re-projection from one to another coordinate reference system. ‘Area of interest’ encoding...

The Government of India and Microsoft Research India have signed a memorandum of understanding for research collaboration under which the first project will concern a geographic information system to put...

INPHO (Germany) has launched new DTMaster software for checking, editing, visualising and classifying 3D point cloud data. The software offers a variety of tools for quality control. Additionally, with its...

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (www.gsdi.org) is an inclusive organisation of organisations, agencies and individuals from around the world. The GSDI Association promotes international co-operation and collaboration in...

The Rwanda Development Gateway Group, in partnership with the Research and Training Centre in Geographic Information systems & Remote Sensing of the National University of Rwanda, recently graduated its first...

Disasters are of all ages. When they strike, more often than not they strike suddenly and ruthlessly. The damage disasters cause fills us with deep awe for the unimaginable forces...

GeoAnalytics, Inc. (WI, USA) has signed a business partnership agreement with SAS Institute Inc. (NC, USA). GeoAnalytics offers management and technical consulting for enterprise systems, as well as web-based and...