The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association (www.gsdi.org) is an inclusive organisation of organisations, agencies and individuals from around the world. The GSDI Association promotes international co-operation and collaboration in...

ESRI (CA, USA) and two of its partners, Digital Quest, Inc. (DQI) (MS, USA) and Berkeley Geo-Research Group (CA, USA) will combine efforts to expand the educational programs for the...

The Belize Biodiversity Mapping Service (BBMS) is a prototype on-line GIS to discover biodiversity-related data using a visual (spatial) interface. The BBMS evolved out of a simple demonstration of internet...

Some fifteen years ago I was president of The Netherlands Society for Photogrammetry. At that time there was some concern that photogrammetry was taught only at university and not at...

Developing countries still have a need for mapping systems that are low-cost, simple to operate by local operators, fast in production and yet meet the needs of the application. A...

Blue Marble Geographics (ME, USA) has released version 4.0 of its map display library GeoObjects, offering a 32-bit COM control for spatial data access, display and analysis, needed for developing...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (see websites) Technical Committee 211, Geographic Information and Geomatics Plenary Meeting was hosted by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission JRC (see...

An integrated approach towards coastal zone management requires relevant, credible and reliable (geo-)data. However, the legends of geo-information covering coastal zones vary so much between the various European countries that...

The Geospatial Information and Technology Association (CO, USA) has published a white paper on use of its Geospatial Technology Report as a GIS benchmarking tool. The author is Jeffrey Myerson,...

Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...