ER Mapper (Australia) appointed Guy Perkins as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ER Mapper's global operations. Until recently, Mr Perkins was vice-president of ER Mapper Asia-Pacific. Mr Perkins replaces Stuart...

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,...

Preetha Pulusani announced her retirement from the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors. She recently resigned as president of the Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) division at Intergraph Corporation...

Map World Forum is being organised in Hyderabad, India from the 22nd to the 25th of January 2007. The Plenary Sessions – Geographic Information as Public Utility, Convergence and Geospatial...

Shigeyuki Sawaguchi has been named president of POINT, Inc. His previous position was vice president of business development. As president, Sawaguchi will provide his product knowledge, international business experience and...

Geo-3D Inc. (Canada) has appointment Daniel Desgagne, Eng., to the position of vice president of the company responsible for, among other activities, the domestic and offshore sales function. This appointment...

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, has hired Tyler Mitchell hired as its new executive director. Mitchell-who has a decade of GIS experience as an analyst, manager, open source...

The 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment will be held from 25th to 29th June 2007 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The Call-for-Papers and other information are posted...

One of the main topics discussed at the Survey and GIS Summit preceding the ESRI User Conference 2006 (see my report in the October issue) was the reluctance of youngsters...

GeoEye (VA, USA) has appointed retired Air Force Lieutenant General James R. Clapper, Jr. to its board of directors. Lt. Gen. Clapper was the first civilian director of the National...