The idea of a Working Group (WG) on the History of Colonial Cartography came up in 2003. During the ICA Conference in Durban, South Africa, a group of delegates felt...

Autodesk, Inc. (CA, USA) has announced that it has completed the acquisition of c-plan AG worth approximately US$18 million plus net working capital. On 3 May 2005, Autodesk announced a...

Sanborn (CO, USA) has announced that the company has been selected to provide GIS topographic mapping services for Pima Association of Governments (PAG), a Arizona, USA-based coalition of local, state...

NAVTEQ (IL, USA) has made its first map of Russia available to its direct customers. The NAVTEQ map of Russia, which is available in NAVTEQ's Q2 2005 database release, includes...

The 11th annual Intergeo conference and trade fair was held at the Messe Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany from Tuesday 4 October to Thursday 6 October. Under...

Mobile Mapping devices are a typical result of the on-going miniaturisation of instruments enabled by chip technology and electronics which result in small, handy, portable and accurate GPS tools that...

Standards are part of the life of every geomatics engineer and scientist. Standards make the pieces fit together for geospatial information, Web services, modelling languages, etc. Each student of geomatics...

IONIC (Belgium) is to build an intranet/internet geo-portal for the Luxembourg National Department of Cadastral Information (ACT-LUX). This portal will incorporate OGC standards, including a transactional Web Feature Service. Users...

The Società Generale d’Informatica S.p.A. (SOGEI), a division of the Italian Ministry of Finance, has renewed and expanded its use of Xmarc. The contract renewal for approximately € 300,000 provides...

Geo Strategies (Romania) and NAVTEQ (IL, USA) have combined their strengths to survey Romania's road system to the highest levels of accuracy required for modern-day navigation systems. This involved driving...