China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) has embarked on Digital China, an ambitious project listed in China's 10th five-year plan that aims to map the entire country digitally....

The internationally supported African initiative Africa Reference Framework project (AFREF) aims at using GNSS to unify the coordinate reference systems within Africa to produce a uniform and consistent coordinate system...

GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has released cross-platform versions of its coordinate conversion libraries GeoCalc 6.0, including Windows, Linux, Mac and COM. The first release in August 2004 was on...

The Middle East, and in particular the Gulf area, has been undergoing a spectacular metamorphosis over the past three decades. Radical change, and the huge construction and other developmental activities...

Today we can retrieve geo-information from databases, perhaps over the internet, quite literally at the speed of light. But such information must be ordered within a representative framework - a...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has announced the release of new public web pages that show the probability of earthquake shaking in the next 24 hours in California. These maps...

Leica Geosystems HDS (CA, USA) has announced that Joel Hurt, former president of laser scanner supplier Visi Image Corporation, has joined Leica Geosystems HDS as Sr. product manager for the...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC (GA, USA) has announced that it has partnered with University of Arkansas Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), naming it the inaugural Center of...

The first permanent earth observation satellite, today known as Landsat 1, was launched 33 years ago. With a ground resolution of 80 metres, the Landsat Multispectral Scanner images provided an...