Topcon (CA, USA) announces the GPT-7000i Digital Imaging Total Station. Topcon's new DIM (Digital Imaging Measurement) technology enables the operator to view a real-time image of the target object on...

GIS Worlds: Creating Spatial Data Infrastructures, a new book from ESRI Press, provides an overview of the developments in Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) over the last 10 to 15 years....

DAP Technologies (Canada) has launched its software product for mobile units, called Microflex Solutions Field Service (MS Field Service). The mobile solution is also provided with a suite of middleware...

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has announced its participation in a demonstration of interoperable emergency communications. On 29 March 2005, more than 80 state, local and federal organisations and more than...

Topcon (CA, USA) announces the HiPer XT - an new GPS system for land surveying and construction layout applications. This system features fully integrated receiver / antenna units with a...

Topcon (CA, USA) introduces the new GPT-3000LW to its line of survey instruments. The GPT-3000LW is the first in its class to combine long prismless measurements - up to 1,200...

Trimble (CA, USA) has introduced its next generation of GPS receivers for GIS data collection and mapping, the GPS Pathfinder ProXH receiver. It is an integrated GPS receiver, antenna and...

Matrox Graphics Inc. (Canada) has announced the release of its new 64-bit SE drivers for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, for the Matrox Parhelia, Millennium P-Series, QID, and Millennium...

Geography and history are sister disciplines. In fact, geography as a field of scientific research evolved from the study of history. Whereas geographers have the perspective of space, historians consider...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MA, USA) has announced that the OGC membership has adopted six OpenGIS Specifications. Each of the newly adopted specifications enhances the existing open body of...