Position Partners Pty Ltd., an Australian provider of positioning and machine control solutions for land management, civil works and building activities, has joined the Pointools Partner Program in Australia.   Pointools software enables project teams to reference and reuse point cloud models – the billions of measurement points taken by 3D laser scanners – […]

  The organisers of the 2nd European LiDAR Mapping Forum (ELMF) to be held in Salzburg, Austria from November 29-30, have now launched the 2011 program, while also expanding the floor plan due to demand.   The program promotes a truly international theme where speakers in the international LiDAR community represent nearly 20 countries from […]

  One of Google Maps Mania’s ‘Maps of the week’ is from the Melbourne Writers Festival, and is entitled ‘Stories Unbound.’ It’s actually created in tandem with an iPhone app that allows the user to read – and write – stories with a geographical context. The stories appear on the map for browsing. Cartographically, I […]

  Registrations are now open for the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Conference 2011! The SSSC2011 will be one of the largest and most important spatial events in Australasia.   Jointly run by the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI), this event will bring together the disciplines, sectors and […]

  Major General Dick Wilson, the newly appointed chair of the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) and the Director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, will provide his perspective of the devastating 2011 natural disasters that brought an entire state to breaking-point, at Ozri 2011.   As the head of the agency tasked with rebuilding Queensland, Major […]