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...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MD, USA) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 4 (OWS-4) Interoperability Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's...

Microsoft's MapPoint Business Unit was formed in 1995. The Virtual Earth platform was launched in 2005 as an integrated set of services combining imagery with mapping, location and search functionality....

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...

The European Environment Agency (EEA), assisted by the European Space Agency Earth Observation Directorate, has published the Image2000 survey, a new virtual atlas that shows trends in the way Europeans...

A digital photogrammetric system is defined by ISPRS as: hardware and software designed to derive photogrammetric products from digital imagery using manual and automated techniques. Today the trend is to...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that StreetMap Pro is now available. This new dataset provides high-quality display of commercial-level street data. StreetMap Pro is optimised for ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor,...

Simulation of sound propagation is key for today’s urbanised society, in which sound is omnipresent and often negatively affects people’s lives. Existing methods of sound-propagation modelling fail to capture the...

1Spatial (formerly known as Laser-Scan) (United Kingdom) is organising the inaugural 1Spatial Conference which will take place on 2nd-3rd May 2007 at the Ordnance Survey Great Britain Business Centre, Southampton,...