The Victorian Spatial Council has released a set of guidelines for organisations on the use of geospatial data from Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps.  Both Google Maps and Microsoft Bing Maps offer free and commercial licensing arrangements. Many organisations, including government agencies, are using spatial information from the free services to support […]

  SPOT Imaging Services has been awarded a contract to supply SPOT 5 satellite imagery to the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment (MfE). SPOT will acquire and orthorectify 10 m multispectral imagery over the country to support New Zealand’s Kyoto mapping activities. The contract also gives the ministry access to SPOT’s existing 2.5 m […]

            Australian firm Fugro Spatial Solutions has become a reseller business partner with imagery firm GeoEye. Fugro has acquired rights to sell, value-add and distribute GeoEye-1 and IKONOS high-resolution satellite imagery products as GeoEye’s official partner in the Asia-Pacific region.  Fugro says the agreement will provide its clients with access […]

  Google Australia last week switched on turn-by-turn navigation for users with smart phones running Google Android. Instead of having to print out directions in advance, or having a co-pilot read aloud from a list of directions, users can now use their smart phone to guide them to their destination directly, in the same way […]

Geospatial industry standards organisation the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has released a new standard to regulate the way geospatial information is accessed online. The OGC Web Coverage Service 2.0 interface standard covers operations that enable access to geospatial information such as sensor data, satellite imagery, digital elevation models, and climate and ocean data. Users implementing […]

    Geoscience Australia has participated in a month-long seabed mapping survey in the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea off the coast of the Northern Territory. The survey was the third undertaken as part of a partnership agreement with the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Findings from the survey reveal the shallow carbonate banks […]

  Mining technology firm Scanalyse has won the Mineral Processing – Ancillary and Analysis category of the Mining Magazine Awards 2010 for its MillMapper software. MillMapper uses a 3D laser scanner to obtain fast and accurate data on the wear rate of the internal liners of grinding mills, which break up rocks into smaller debris. […]

    All Things Spatial tells us how to pick online winners. GISuser on mobile transit Apps. Geospatial world tells us Japan plans to tap emerging markets with cheap satellites. The Google Geo Developers blog shows how maps are excellent at displaying complex data. And Strange Maps has an interesting rearrangement of the world according […]