Leica Geosystems (CA, USA) has launched a new Education Product Program (EPP), a formalised purchase program for educational institutions teaching or performing research in the area of 3D laser scanning....

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) announces version 6.2 of the Geographic Calculator software for coordinate conversion. This new version improves import and export of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The calculator can...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (MA, USA) has introduced a new trademark licensing fee structure that increases the value of membership for current members while making new membership more affordable. The...

LizardTech’s (WA, USA) MrSID format MG3 image compression software is now supported in the CARIS (Canada) product line. The plug-in installs onto an existing installation of CARIS software. Customers can...

Kingswood MapMechanics (UK) has extended its range of digital road and street map data sets. Many of its data sets cover remote parts of the world. Afghanistan and Iraq are...

Autodesk (CA, USA) was added to the NASDAQ-100 index on 20th December 2004. The index includes 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the New York...

Northport Systems (Canada) has released FUGAWI Map of America, a new software program that brings USGS 1:100,000 scale topographic maps of the entire continental USA in a low-priced package. The...

Avenza Systems (Canada) announces the release of MAPublisher 6.1 for Adobe Illustrator, a software product for producing high-quality maps from GIS data. New functionality includes joining points based on attribute...

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...

MapQuest Services (CO, USA), a provider of software to location-enable web and wireless applications, has introduced street-level mapping for major Latin American countries including Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. The company...