A new web application, the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Viewer, is now available from ESRI (CA, USA) to provide detailed information about areas impacted by Hurricane Katrina. The site allows the...

The Indonesian national cartographic report prepared by the National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping (Bakosurtanal) and covering the period 2003 to 2005 was tabled at the ICA special General...

The idea of including a new direction in ICA cartographic research, towards the mapping of planetary bodies, was raised by Russian cartographers at the seventeenth International Cartographic Conference (ICC) held...

Telcontar (CA, USA) has made public that Google recently launched the beta release of its new Maps Service, an application that offers online turn-by-turn directions, maps and search results based...

STAR INFORMATIC (Belgium) has announced that the Mapping Production Association 'Kartografija' (MPA Kartografija) from the Russian Federation has chosen to implement Mercator in its cartographic production process. MPA Kartografija is...

Amongst the awards instituted by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is the Carl Mannerfelt Gold Medal. First awarded in 1980 to the ‘dean of European cartographers’ Prof. Imhof of Switzerland,...

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...

Maps lead marooned travellers through unfamiliar territory, arm the government with vital information, and guide school administrators to the best course of action. New from ESRI Press Designing Better Maps:...

Map users expect understandable, true and user-friendly output and visualisations of data fitted to application, and this is the job of the cartographer. The XXIII Congress of the International Cartographic...

ESRI Sweden has deployed the ArcIMS Open Location Services (OpenLS) connector as part of a project to improve TeliaSonera mapping engine capabilities for location-based services across Scandinavia. Together with Tele...