In the third year of its Small Grants Program, the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (VA, USA) received nearly 100 applications representing practitioners from around the globe. The grants...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that StreetMap Pro is now available. This new dataset provides high-quality display of commercial-level street data. StreetMap Pro is optimised for ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor,...

Early in 2002 the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia (Spain) began the IDEC project (SDI of Catalonia). The first year was devoted to general planning and preparation and...

LizardTech (WA, USA) has announced the release of GeoExpress 5.0 SDK. This latest release of the SDK offers unlimited encoding capabilities to both MrSID and JPEG 2000 and exposes functionality...

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...

The Spanish NSDI, named IDEE for 'Infra-estructura de Datos Espaciales de España' (www.idee.es), is a SDI of SDIs following the decentralised structure of Spanish Government: national, regional and local. It...

The Metropolitan Region of Hamburg (Hamburg and its surrounding fourteen districts) is a strong, dynamic and prospering urban centre in Northern Germany where developments are advanced by the political programme...

Year after year Intergeo demonstrates how exceptionally flourishing is the geo(infor)matics business. Geo(infor)matics is all about improving human understanding of the earth, enabling management and staff in both public and...

Standards are set within Europe as a result of voluntary agreements between the 28 member countries via the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). After a five-year period of dormancy, the...

ESRI Virtual Campus and Trimble (both CA, USA) will present a free live training seminar 23 June 2005, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m., Pacific time. The seminar...