The next phase in GIS development on the internet should restore user freedom and give a fully comprehensive overview of geo-objects originating anywhere and containing all relevant information. It should...

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and strategic partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the private sector, are designing and developing SensorNet,...

ESRI Sweden has deployed the ArcIMS Open Location Services (OpenLS) connector as part of a project to improve TeliaSonera mapping engine capabilities for location-based services across Scandinavia. Together with Tele...

Chip Eichelberger will be keynote speaker for the opening session of the Geospatial Information and Technology Association (CO, USA) Annual Conference 28, to be held at the Colorado Convention Centre...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (MA, USA) has published a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit input on technologies related to Contextual State Descriptions (CSD). A CSD describes the context...

Developments in geo-technology move almost faster than a ray of light and as a consequence the daily work of a surveyor has been changing dramatically over recent years. Digitalisation of...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) is emerging as a highly cost-effective 3D mapping technology. Digital elevation models and ortho-rectified radar imagery are core commercial Intermap Technologies products using its airborne...

Mercy Corps (OR, USA) is requesting financial contributions to assist the ongoing emergency response of the Mercy Corps Geospatial Relief & Development Team in South Asia. The organisation currently has...

ER Mapper (Australia) has released the source code to its ECW JPEG 2000 Software Development Kit (SDK). This allows the addition of support for large geospatial images in ECW and...

Intermap Technologies (CO, USA) has launched The Intermap Store, a Web mapping portal for online purchasing of its off-the-shelf geospatial data of areas as small as 2sq.km. Small orders will...