Hamburg is one of the richest cities in Germany. The level of welfare of its inhabitants tops that of those living in other European cities such as Paris, Milan, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Hamburg has a...

Topcon buys Sokkia, and the two giants of the surveying and positioning world join forces to compete from Japan with the rest of the globe. This most recent announcement by the two Tokyo-based compani...

Integration continues on its role. New and recent techniques are becoming integrated with older techniques such as the total station. Integration has been going on for years, of course, but over the p...

If there has been one development the last ten years that has transformed the life of professionals, consumers, companies and business and non-profit organisations alike, it is the internet. It has ch...

Beijing’s characteristic, narrow alleyways called hútong are vanishing at an unimaginable rate. With the 2008 Olympics on the horizon, these old walled residential neighbourhoods must make way for...

Growth is the magic word in economics. Growth provides for stability, a strong position against competition, coverage of the ever-exploding costs of wages, buildings and investments. Growth is one of...

It’s not my habit to look back; I’d rather look forward. You can’t change anything in the past and as far as the future is concerned you at least have the feeling some of it lies in your own han...

There must be billions of them lying on bookshelves and languishing on coffee tables, in boxes in garrets and antiquarian bookshops; some will be brand new, almost never touched, others torn through h...

t was probably Empress Maria-Theresia of Austria-Hungary herself who in 1763 ordered a survey of the Czech lands of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. It took her imperial surveyors, stemming from the mili...

More and more consumers are becoming familiar with products made by traditional manufacturers for the surveying, GPS and GIS world. High-end techniques of a few years ago are now available to the mass...