The ICA Commission on Mountain Cartography was established in 1999 to define the topics involved and promote methods and knowledge of mountain cartography among scientists and professionals in cartography and...

One significant focus of ICA work comes from the members of the ICA Commission on Marine Cartography. It has few members but they interact effectively with a number of other...

Where just two decades ago spatial data was mainly carried on paper maps, map and three-dimensional topographic data is now accessible via Google Earth. Where accurate positioning was once the...

MapInfo Corporation (UK) has announced the appointment of Steve Broughton as group sales director, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa); a specially created role reflecting the company's strategic response to...

Cadcorp (UK) has announced the availability of a new, low-cost digital mapping software product, Cadcorp Storm Tracker. Developed by Cadcorp to satisfy the requirements of insurance and re-insurance specialists and...

ice-president Stig Enemark attended the UN-Habitat workshop in Oslo from 23rd to 24th March 2006 to pre-sent FIG commitment to the UN-Habitat Global Network for Development of Innovative Pro-Poor Land...

ESRI (CA, USA) is providing GIS software and services support to organisations responding to Hurricane Katrina. Similar to ESRI’s efforts in responding to other emergencies including last year’s hurricane season,...

The benefits of using GIS to organise and manage organisations include “cost savings resulting from greater efficiency, better decision-making, greater communication, and better geographic information record keeping” says this month’s...

The benefits of using GIS to organise and manage organisations include “cost savings resulting from greater efficiency, better decision-making, greater communication, and better geographic information record keeping” says this month’s...

Toposcopy combines geo-referenced visualisation and close-range photogrammetry, using low-cost digital camera and CAD data. It has recently been successfully used to reconstruct a simulated traffic accident from video images. The...