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...

The Third Annual ESRI Survey and GIS Summit will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California from 23–26 July 2005. The summit focuses on integrating...

It’s used in the supermarket. It’s used in logistic centres. Surveyors use it on the rod of their digital levels. It goes 'beep' and all kinds of data is recorded....

The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...

A new laboratory method for verifying the accuracy of distance measuring solves the problem of having to mount reflectors outside the laboratory. The limited space of the laboratory is duplicated...

Aerial photography company BlueSky (UK) has created a series of contour maps, terrain models and perspective views from archived black and white aerial photography to aid site and infrastructure development...

Leica Geosystems (The Netherlands) has won the European tender for the Land Registry in The Netherlands. As a result, an agreement has been concluded with the Land Registry for the...

Sokkia (KS, USA) has released the GSR2700 IS Fully Integrated L1/L2 System, featuring Bluetooth wireless technology for completely cable-free surveying. The system has been developed in collaboration with POINT, Inc....

Leica Geosystems (Switzerland) has released version 7 of LISCAD Surveying & Engineering Software. LISCAD, designed for Microsoft Windows, is a complete field-to-finish system which interfaces with all popular surveying instrument...

Approximately 21,000,000 properties exist in England and Wales, ranging from small houses with tiny gardens to large rural estates. Boundary disputes are relatively rare and involve an average of 100mm...