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...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

GeoTango International (Canada) introduced SAME (See Anywhere Map Everywhere), a network-centric system that allows performing 3D visualisation and interactive exploration of multiple data sources over a distributed network. The product...

Based in Beijing, China, SinoMaps Press, the largest and oldest map publisher in the country, this year in December celebrates its fiftieth anniversary. The press produces 90% of China’s total...

Many surveyors are involved in land consolidation projects at technical and managerial level. The matrix of objectives, procedures and tools which constitute land consolidation is under major change, as is...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

Writing a text or revising a spreadsheet and saving it...editing a map or digital photo and saving it…a seemingly unlimited amount of data, all stored inside the computer on the...

ImageCat (CA, USA) is using QuickBird satellite imagery to assess damage resulting from the massive Indian Ocean tsunami. In January, ImageCat and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)...

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (AL, USA) announced Ordnance Survey of Great Britain has purchased a Z/I Imaging Digital Modular Camera system. The DMC will extend Ordnance Survey's capabilities for...