NASA scientists have developed a regional visualisation and monitoring system for Central America and the southern Mexican states designed to make NASA Earth observations and predictions freely and readily accessible...

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...

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has introduced SmartStation, the newest member of its TPS1200 product family, offering high-performance total station with fully integrated GPS functionality. All existing TPS1200 instruments can be easily...

SCP (Germany) announced version 7.1 of its large-format colour copy software Colorado. New features include a 3-button mode for VIDAR and Contex scanners. In addition, the product supports the Colortrac...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

To be honest, I had completely overlooked the link as well. And that doesn’t say much for me, a historian by trade. Okay, a few months as publication director with...

The tsunami in Asia has once again demonstrated that human beings are at risk at any time, anywhere. Disasters in highly populated environments are difficult to manage using only small-scale...

GIS is a very useful tool in the planning of urban conservation. GIS includes integration of vector and raster data, geographical referencing, correction and spatial adjustment. GIS analysis tools and...

Tele Atlas (Germany) has established a close co-operation with the Roskartographia agency, which is supervised by the Ministry of Transport in Russia. The result is that Tele Atlas is able...

NAVTEQ (Il, USA) has added new roads and updated attributes and geometry on existing roads in its maps of the following middle eastern countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United...