During its 2006 Congress in Munich FIG General Assembly elected Prof. Stig Enemark as president for the term 2007 to 2010. Mr Enemark has longstanding international experience both as a...

GEO-3D Inc. (Canada) has appointed Mr. Daniel Desgagné as president of the company. He moves to this new position from his role as vice president at Geo-3D, which he has...

As per February 1st, 2007, Tino Versteege has been appointed as executive vice president business development at Tensing b.v. From 1993 to 1996 Tino Versteege worked at Origin Germany as...

The term ‘geomatics’ came into use in the Latvian technical education system during implementation of the international project Geomatic Education in Latvia (GEMLA). The author provides some background and discusses...

In the March issue of GIM International we started a series on Developments in Geomatics Education, to be continued over forthcoming issues. One interesting topic here is the background of...

The surveying profession in Australasia is on the cusp of a ‘skills crisis’, there being far too few skilled personnel to fill the many jobs available. For some professionals this...

It is about thirty-five years since I left university with the Dutch equivalent of a MSc degree in Geodesy. Computers had just been introduced into our field and we were...

Surveying/geomatics education programmes for the training of professional surveyors in Australia were introduced in each state in the second half of the twentieth century, replacing an articled pupil system that...

Michael Dowling has joined TerraGo Technologies (GA, USA) as vice president of finance and administration. Dowling will be responsible for managing the company's finance, human resources and administrative functions. Dowling...

Many institutes for geo(infor)matics education experienced hard times around the turn of the millennium. In particular, the influx of new students was often dramatically low and some university boards decided...