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...

Increasingly frequent disasters with attendant damage have heightened climate change related environmental and social vulnerability, emphasising the need for tools to support disaster management. In South Africa a National Disaster...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) has announced the expansion of its map portfolio in Eastern Europe. For the first time, NAVTEQ's direct customers will have access to digital map data for the...

NovAtel Inc. (Canada) has announced that its dealer, Beijing BDStar Navigation Co. Ltd., Beijing, China, completed deployment of NovAtel GPS-based systems for the Tianjin port Container Terminals (TCT), as per...

Pictometry International Corp. (NY, USA) has announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. (WA, USA). Under terms of the agreement, Pictometry will license existing and new...

Avenza Systems Inc. (Canada) has announced that it will support HarrysMaps of Switzerland and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) project to re-map the city of...

Plans for a new national, high-quality spatial address infrastructure building are announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), Ordnance Survey and the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)...

ER Mapper (Australia) has appointed SuperMap its Master Distributor for China. SuperMap is a GIS software provider in China. SuperMap is the first GIS Company to qualify for the ISO...

MapInfo Corporation (NY, USA) has announced the availability of MapInfo Professional version 8.0. This version's new features include faster editing tools, new data creation and analytical capabilities, enhanced data access...

announced the availability of Creator Terrain Studio v1.2. Creator Terrain Studio delivers a unique set of 3D scene creation, geometry/texture creation tools and workflow management focused on the production of...