Geomatic Technologies (Australia) has named a new sales and marketing manager for Australia and New Zealand. Andrew Bashfield, formerly of Bentley Systems, has assumed responsibility for sales and marketing operations....

Topcon Europe Positioning BV (The Netherlands) has announced several promotions to strengthen its organisation and support its growth plan. Ulrich Hermanski has been promoted to European senior sales and marketing...

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...

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...

COWI is a northern European consultancy group headquartered in Lyngby, Denmark, near the capital Copenhagen. Its 3,500 employees are distributed over nearly all continents and provide a variety of services...

ORBIMAGE Inc. (VA, USA) has announced that The Hon. James M. Simon, Jr., has joined the board of directors of its parent company, ORBIMAGE Holdings, Inc. Following a distinguished career...

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...

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...

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...

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...