Digital Mapping Solutions (DMS) recently announced the introduction of commercial training and support packages for the free Quantum GIS (QGIS) package, throughout Australia and New Zealand.   DMS joins a range of international companies offering commercial services for the open source desktop GIS application, to support organisations wishing to incorporate this technology into their […]

  The organising committee is inviting people to submit abstracts for the 2013 Australian & New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management Conference, to be held in Brisbane from the 29th to the 31st May, 2013.   A forum to examine the issues surrounding natural and man-made hazards, the conference is a joint initiative of three […]

  Registrations for Australia’s newest geospatial conference, GeoNext, are now open. Be sure to take advantage of its generous early-bird offer while it lasts.   GeoNext is a brand new event, aimed at all practitioners of location-based technology. The audience will comprise experts from the fields of GIS, mapping, mobility, software development and business – […]

  Australian spatial data management company, Omnilink, is celebrating a landmark 25 years in business this month.   From a consortium of 4 survey companies from Sydney in 1987, which joined Austcon, to winning a place on the panel to capture the NSW cadastre, to establishing offices in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Albury, and New Zealand, […]

  Google Maps Mania shows us the 2012 Country Performance Map, which visually shows each country’s rank on Yale University’s Environmental Performance Index. Users can mouse-over a country to reveal the country's ranking and ranking trend in an information window. Clicking on a country takes the user to the country's dedicated country profile page where […]