The Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS) has underscored the need for the passage of the pieces of legislation for Survey Council and Real Estate. Such legislation will give legal backing to operations in the land management industry and stem the incidence of multiple sale of land

The Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre (COSMC), has implemented a web-based solution from Intergraph® for the distribution and publishing of national geospatial data. It includes high-performance image compression and delivery for handling big data on a large scale.

SELECT Open Access enables greater project agility through unrestricted access to Bentley’s portfolio of information modeling applications – unencumbered by conventional software procurement cycles. Bentley’s new MANAGE services offering facilitates the provisioning, rapid deployment, and operation of Bentley’s Project Wise collaboration services and Asset Wise asset information management services in a hybrid cloud services environment.

Ordnance Survey have created a Minecraft world representing over 224,000 sqkms of Great Britain using two of their OS OpenData products…

India has officially inaugurated Data Portal India, a portal for the public to access and use datasets and applications provided by ministries and departments of the Government of India. The Portal functions as a single access point for open government datasets across the country. Currently, there are about 3500 datasets from 49 government departments available for the public to access and use. The datasets include agriculture, commerce and industry, defence, finance, health, information and broadcasting, energy, transport and water resources, among others. http://data.gov.in/

The National Geographic Institute (IGN), the mapping agency of Peru, has launched a project for digitisation of national cartography. The idea of the project is to have a high precision data in order to contribute to the growth of public and private investments that can benefi t from this updated mapping information.

Mapping information showing the locations of publicly accessible land across New Zealand has been released by the New Zealand Walking Access Commission (NZWAC) to enable researchers, government agencies and app developers embark on their own mapping projects.

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Congress cuts funding for updating flood maps
Congress has cut funding for updating flood maps by more than half since 2010, from $221 million down to $100 million this year. And the president’s latest budget request would slash funding for mapping even further to …

OS VectorMap by Europa Technologies
Europa Technologies has announced an innovative new way to license OS VectorMap Local map data for Great Britain. This new offering consists of three off-the-shelf urban packages speci cally designed to meet the needs of organisations that focus on the nation’s population. The entry level Urban package includes cities and large towns, covering approximately 62% of the population.

PetroVietnam University (PVU) has joined the Intergraph® Education Grant Program, selecting SmartMarine® Enterprise solutions for its curriculum to support Vietnam’s offshore oil and gas industry. PVU is located in the offshore oil and gas hub of southern Vietnam, and was established to focus on the development of the country’s oil and gas industry. www.pvu.edu.vn