Mercy Corps (OR, USA) is requesting financial contributions to assist the ongoing emergency response of the Mercy Corps Geospatial Relief & Development Team in South Asia. The organisation currently has...

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced significant additions to the data offered via ArcWeb Services. Highlights of the added data include premium imagery from GlobeXplorer, road network data from NAVTEQ, detailed...

China has begun a scientific investigation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, including a precise assessment of the height of Qomolangma, the world's highest peak, known as Mount Everest. Qomolangma Peak is...

Volunteers from ESRI-Thailand have been to Takua Pa district, the most damaged area in the country, to assist search teams and to analyse tsunami damage using geo-information technology. The most...

Intermap Technologies (CO, USA) has launched The Intermap Store, a Web mapping portal for online purchasing of its off-the-shelf geospatial data of areas as small as 2sq.km. Small orders will...

The Hungarian Border Guard has deployed a Command and Control System (BOGCOS) based on an Intergraph geospatial data management product. The system supports control operations both along the national boundary...

DM Solutions Group (Canada) has made available Chameleon version 2.0, an Open Source software for creating customisable Web mapping applications. This latest version provides the flexibility to utilise both remote...

To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

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...

In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...