GfK MACON (Germany) annually updates digital maps of all 39 European countries. These updates cover not only administrative and postal areas but also the largest digital archive of postal and...

GE Energy (GA, USA) has developed the Smallworld Spatial Objects Manager (SOM) for Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) 4. This new geospatial multi-translator software product is the company’s latest addition to...

To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...

GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...

The US Department of the Interior has selected ESRI (CA, USA) to develop full implementation of the Geospatial One-Stop Operational Portal (GOS 2), providing new ways of sharing geospatial information...

Many surveyors are involved in land consolidation projects at technical and managerial level. The matrix of objectives, procedures and tools which constitute land consolidation is under major change, as is...

In Lombardy (Italy) one has started a project on risk-assessment of buildings of historical-architectural importance. For this purpose a Building Information System (BIS) has been created, based on archived and...

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,...

The pan-European research platform EuroSDR (European Spatial Data Research) will host a forthcoming international conference on merging map data from different sources, especially the satellite-based GPS. The conference, “Achieving geometric...

Laser-Scan has contributed to the OGC interoperability specification process since 1996, playing a significant role in test-bed programmes and OGC contributions to ISO TC211. Within the context of OGC, Laser-Scan...