IONIC (Belgium) has released RedSpider Web version 3.2, with support for both English and French. The product offers the functionality for building an interoperable Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) within an...

An integrated approach towards coastal zone management requires relevant, credible and reliable (geo-)data. However, the legends of geo-information covering coastal zones vary so much between the various European countries that...

A new ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling presents a compendium of best practices in geodatabase design based on ArcGIS. The book begins by outlining the...

GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...

Telcontar (CA, USA) has made public that Google recently launched the beta release of its new Maps Service, an application that offers online turn-by-turn directions, maps and search results based...

GE Energy (GA, USA) has developed the Smallworld Spatial Objects Manager (SOM) for Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) 4. This new geospatial multi-translator software product is the company’s latest addition to...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has introduced SmartStation, the newest member of its TPS1200 product family, offering high-performance total station with fully integrated GPS functionality. All existing TPS1200 instruments can be easily...

Ricoh Corporation (CA, USA) has launched the Pro G3, a high-resolution digital camera that embeds captured images with GPS coordinate information received from either its on-board GPS unit or from...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) is offering a full coverage map of Western Europe with the completion of a full coverage map of Italy. The updated database covers all 8,103 cities comprising...

DeLorme (ME, USA) has released the XMap OpenSpace Database Integration Kit, which allows automatically updating geographic data managed within the OpenSpace database by means of Microsoft SQL Server. The Integration...