A new web-based map has been launched by the Australian Koala Foundation that aims to mobilise communities to help save koalas and their habitats.   The map, available at http://koalamap.savethekoala.com/, allows anyone to enter their residential address, to see if they live in or near a crucial koala population.   The map uses data […]

  The IGNSS Society announces that the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2011 Australian Challenge will run from April 1 to June 30 2011. The €20,000 grand prize in the 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) went to the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving […]

  Google Earth is a great program for viewing parts of the world you may never otherwise see, but what about those parts as they existed millions of years ago? A new program developed at Sydney University does just that.   The free, open source program, called GPlates1.0, recreates the continents, oceans, and tectonic plates, […]

  ESRI has released a mashup map of the unrest in Libya that combines information, images, and videos from geo-located posts to Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.   The default search terms return good results, but can also be tweaked to find the specific type of information that users are interested in. There is also an […]

  China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has launched an operation aiming to crack down on illegal mapping in the nation, according to a statement posted on its official website earlier in the month.   Working with an additional 12 governmental bodies, the bureau will enforce the mapping licenses that were made a legal […]