URISA's proposed certification program for GIS professionals - On October 25, the URISA Board unanimously approved the URISA Certification Committee's proposed schedule for public discussion, testing, evaluating, and implementation of a proposed certification program for GIS professionals

University of Ghana - GEOGRAPHY/GIS AWARENESS WEEK CELEBRATED IN GHANA

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Landsat 7, $350 per scene. www.rgi.bc.ca/landsat7/landsat-a.htm. Coverage of Canada, Eastern Alaska, most of the Continental USA and NW Cuba. 64,000 scene archive updated daily.

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Maptuit Corp. - Maptuit Corporation and AMCi Announce Real Time Routing, Tracking and Monitoring of Assets in Transit

URISA - The MidAmerica GIS Consortium (MAGIC) and URISA are pleased to announce the 2002 MidAmerica GIS Symposium

CANRI - CANRI, Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure Team Join OGC Web Services Initiative

OGC - Dr. Mike Jackson Joins OGC Board

Laser-Scan - Laser-Scan teams up with Snowflake Software

USGS - USGS TO CLOSE SPOKANE MAP SALES OFFICE

US Census Bureau - World's Older Population Growing by Unprecedented 800,000 a Month

East View Cartographic - Detailed 3-D Russian Map of Tora Bora Region Featured in Front-Page NYT War Coverage

2001 "Best Of The Industry" Awards -- We want to know what GIS/LBS/or Geo-spatial related products, utilities, software, translators, companies, or even people you consider to be "The Best Of" in our industry. Help us build our 2001 "Best Of The Industry" list by sending in your nomination. Simply email the name of your nomination and a suggested category to Best of The Industry Nomination. (Suggested categories include Best: translator, data provider, web portal, imaging product, publication, desktop GIS, extension, add-on, consultant, etc...). Don't be shy... I may even select a few random entries as prize winners!

New Data Products Available - For those of you in search of data from down-under, you can now get a 1:1,000,000 Aussie data bundle with a comprehensive 65,000 place name feature database included for only $39.95

Zip Code Resources - This is where we archive all of the news, features, and articles related to postal zip codes. If your company has postal code related products, please make sure we know about em!