The Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) has launched a new digital product which outlines the official boundaries for a number of different regions. The new product includes boundaries of local government areas, statistical local areas, statistical divisions, statistical subdivisions, states, statistical districts, major statistical regions, statistical regions and statistical region sectors, as of July 2010. […]

A Wisconsin court has given approval for police to monitor a suspect through the use of a GPS. The state’s Supreme Court decision involved the case of a man who was booked for stalking his ex-girlfriend, based on data from a GPS, which was installed on his car without his knowedge. The police used the […]

Thirty-three Indian secondary schools are piloting courses teaching the use of geospatial technologies. Kapil Sabal, India’s minister for human resource and development launched the new courses last week. “We need to prepare our children for the 21st century, which is going to be a century of enormous challenges,” he said. “Both school and university education […]

A new method for predicting dust and sandstorms using infrared satellite images has been developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh in the US. The scientists have been able to determine when destructive sandstorms are likely to occur. They used their methods to accurately forecast a large 2008 dust storm in New Mexico, two […]

  Here are a few of the most exciting, new and interesting posts from the blogosphere over the past couple of days: Incidents from the huge leak of US military War Logs to Wikileaks have been plotted on Google maps. Strange Maps plots the eccentricities of Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. The All Points blog […]