More than five hundred exhibitors from 32 countries are due to put in an appearance at Intergeo 2008, presenting a comprehensive overview of the geo(infor)matics business today. Covering a wide...

The 23rd International Cartographic Conference (ICC) took place in Moscow in August and provided an opportunity for cartographers from around the world to meet, present, debate and network at a...

In 2007, the fourth Intergeo East conference is to be held outside the former Yugoslavian region for the first time. The trade fair and conference for land management, geoinformation, the...

Many institutes for geo(infor)matics education experienced hard times around the turn of the millennium. In particular, the influx of new students was often dramatically low and some university boards decided...

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...

Intergeo East 2008 will take place from 18 to 20 February in Belgrade. For a third time, Serbia will be a meeting point for experts from the areas of land...

The FIG Working Week held at the Stockholm City Conference Centre in Sweden just before midsummer night was the biggest ever. Young surveyors were very much in evidence and mentoring...

Since Estonia gained independence in 1991, huge efforts have been made to re-establish private property. Technologically speaking, land reform and land administration are a success; nearly the whole country has...

The Second International Conference on Cartography and GIS took place in the Bulgarian ski resort of Borovets from 21st to 24th January 2008. The 130 participants from Europe, Africa and...

Relatively new to the spatial-information world and receiving increasing attention, the geosensor network is based on a large number of interlinked,simple sensors distributed over geographical space and able automatically to...