Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

National Geographic (DC, USA) has released a new tool to add topographic maps to their projects with National Geographic Maps' TOPO! Xport Pro. This software enables users to add seamless...

Increasingly frequent disasters with attendant damage have heightened climate change related environmental and social vulnerability, emphasising the need for tools to support disaster management. In South Africa a National Disaster...

Tele Atlas (NH, USA) and ESRI (CA, USA) will present five US and Canadian educators with scholarships to attend the 2005 ESRI Education User Conference (EdUC). Tele Atlas will provide...

The dramatic and, in some cases, damaging environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas launched to mark World Environment Day (WED). Produced by...

The first International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) was held at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands from 21st to 23rd March 2005. More than three hundred participants...

A collection of USGS before-and-after satellite image pairs for 80 sites around the world is featured in a new atlas documenting global environmental changes released by the United Nations Environment...

As successor to the first GIS PLANET 98 conference, Planet 2005 took place in Estoril, the scenic beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Lisbon, Portugal from 30th May...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that RouteMAP IMS 3 is now shipping. The latest release of this Internet mapping solution now supports .NET and increases user flexibility. Included with the...

In light of the tragic devastation of Hurricane Katrina, MapInfo Corporation (MA, USA) is volunteering its services to assist with the recovery efforts. In this time of recovery, they can...