eSpatial (Ireland) released the latest version of its Geospatial iSMART product suite. Version 5.1 provides new features including advanced metadata management, further Oracle integration, increased use of Web 2.0 technologies...

Over its thirty years existence the privately owned MAPS Group has executed thousands of aerial survey projects in 65 countries. It currently operates in seventeen countries, with mapping projects such...

Many countries in Africa are on the way towards having a formal, national strategy on Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). Somalia, however, after fifteen years of civil strife, is lagging behind....

The Annual International ESRI User Conference takes place from 7 to 11 August in San Diego, California, US. At the accompanying exhibition many companies from all over the world present...

LizardTech (WA, USA) has released GeoExpress 6.1. This updated version comes equipped with non-uniform colour balancing, geography mark-up language (GML) for JPEG 2000 (JP2) support and enables users to easily...

All users of geo-information require large-scale maps accurate to the metre or even, in urban areas, the decimetre. This, along with anticipated new uses and needs, has driven development of...

It is now technologically possible to build advanced internet geographic-information servers, introducing a new era of information sharing that some are calling the ‘GeoWeb’. This will demand collaboration between producers...

A SDI is a framework of technologies, data, policies, institutional arrangements and people aimed at increasing the availability, understanding and use of spatial data and services to support policy, business,...

A SDI is a framework of technologies, data, policies, institutional arrangements and people aimed at increasing the availability, understanding and use of spatial data and services to support policy, business,...

The ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission, active since 1991, is one of ICA’s most productive commissions. It has addressed a number of specific issues since its formation, including transfer formats,...