Cadcorp (UK) has appointed Richard Rollins as marketing manager. Reporting to board member and sales and marketing director Martin McGarry, Mr Rollins takes on responsibility for Cadcorp’s global marketing strategy....

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,...

The Spatial Information System (S.I.S) Group in Saudi Arabia has bought fourteen Thales (CA, USA) internet-enabled Continuous Geodetic Reference Stations (iCGRS) fitted with choke ring antennas, and three Thales Z-Max...

In November last year China successfully put into orbit the third of its ZY-2 second transmitting-type remote sensing satellites. China launched the first and second ZY-2 satellites in September 2000...

A new ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling presents a compendium of best practices in geodatabase design based on ArcGIS. The book begins by outlining the...

Galdos Systems Inc. will host the GML Days 2005 held from 18th -22nd July in Vancouver, Canada. GML Days 2005 is the fourth annual conference on the OGC Geography Markup...

NovAtel (Canada) has received an order for additional Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) equipment from Raytheon Company (MA, USA) in support of the Indian Geostationary Earth Orbit Augmented Navigation (GAGAN)...

Racurs is privately owned company established from scratch in Moscow in 1993 without any start-up capital. The four founders, with backgrounds in the Russian defence industry and the Russian Academy...

Topcon (CA, USA) now offers a GIS module for the latest version of TopSURV. Operators using Topcon’s survey-grade RTK GPS systems for conventional land survey tasks can now use the...

The Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) is the body responsible for Japan’s survey administration, and it conducts the basic surveys. The activities, goals and scope of the basic survey were laid...