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 […]

  The Geospatial World Forum, to be held 13-16 May 2013 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and the theme “Monetising Geospatial Value and Practices”, has extended its call for papers until October 31 2012.   Geospatial World Forum is an event for the global geospatial community, showcasing state-of-the-art technology and its uses in the world economy. […]