During the congress, the new technical commission presidents were announced, as well as the next ISPRS council elected.   The new Technical Commission Presidents are: TC I: Charles Toth TC 2: Songnian Li TC 3: Konrad Schindler TC 4: Jiang Jie TC 5: Fabio Remondino TC 6: Jianya Gong TC 7: Filiz Sunar TC […]

  Dialog Information Technology recently announced that Josh Venman, formerly Esri’s Chief Technology Strategist, is joining the National Google Enterprise practice to head the Geospatial Consulting Team.   According to Dialog, Josh brings a wealth of experience in the Geospatial/GIS market to the practice, and will be providing architectural consultancy for organisations that are looking […]

  A Geocortex Technical Training and Workshop event will be held in Sydney on Tuesday 4th September – Wednesday 5th September 2012.   Day 1 is a technical training day for users and developers of Web GIS applications. Day 2 is an applications seminar that will benefit anyone interested in the rapidly developing world of […]

  Congratulations to Cameron Shorter, Geospatial Solutions Manager at LISAsoft and supporter and promoter of the OSGeo-Live DVD, who has been appointed to the OSGeo Board.   Cameron had this to say on his blog:   I feel quite humbled and very honoured to have been voted onto the OSGeo Board. I'll do my best […]

  GIS Lounge has a fascinating post that talks of research undertaken at TelAviv University and the University of California, Los Angeles, which has created a method for more precisely pinpointing the geographic origin of a person's ancestry, by developing an understanding of the spatial diversity of genes.   LiDAR News has a piece on […]

    It's hard to shock engineers, but that was the impact when Samuel Cech told the 12d Model International User Conference of life during and after the massive Christchurch earthquakes. The days of fatal destruction — and the strength of a community when necessities like shelter, fresh water and sanitation can no longer be […]