Pictometry International Corp. (NY, USA) has announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. (WA, USA). Under terms of the agreement, Pictometry will license existing and new...

DigitalGlobe (CO, USA) has announced that RMTC/URS, along with Kauai County and the State of Hawaii, has purchased high-resolution DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery for more effective digital mapping in Hawaii....

The first International Symposium on Geo-information for Disaster Management (Gi4DM) was held at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands from 21st to 23rd March 2005. More than three hundred participants...

AmberCore Software (Canada) has announced the release of Amber iQ 2.0. Amber iQ 2.0 is a GIS that integrates vector and raster data to produce stunning visual outputs and valuable...

The Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. (OGC) (MA, USA) invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS Implementation Specification...

In March 2005, the Government of Norway donated to the Republic of Serbia a flat bed scanner of high resolution and high geometric precision, with the total value of €...

The internationally supported African initiative Africa Reference Framework project (AFREF) aims at using GNSS to unify the coordinate reference systems within Africa to produce a uniform and consistent coordinate system...

The CRESTA organisation (Catastrophe Risk Evaluation and Standardizing Target Accumulations) is involved with the management of natural hazard risk coverage from an insurance point of view. The goal is to...

Tele Atlas (NH, USA) has announced an enhanced collaboration with infoUSA to incorporate millions of Points Of Interest (POIs) into its digital map database. infoUSA (NE, USA), a provider of...

BAE Systems (CA, USA) has released version 5.2 of its SOCET SET digital photogrammetric software application. The new version comprises a module for 3D-feature collection in ESRI’s ArcMap environment. In...