Conference Proceedings of Map Africa 2008    Inaugural Session Spatially enabling government (Power Point Presentation) Ian Williamson Fast and Cost Efficient National Mapping Programs Using Constellations of High Resolution Satellites (Power Point Presentation) Dr. Marc Tremblay The International Cartographic Association and its activities supporting information and technology transfer William Cartwright, Derek Clarke    Plenary Sessions Real-time Geographies Monitoring and Managing Sustainable Societies and Environments Josef Strobl Introducing the new ERDAS (Power Point Presentation) Dr. Thomas Bayer Space Science and Technology Grand Challenge (Power Point Presentation) Dr. Pontsho Maruping Spatial Information: The foundation in the production & dissemination of official statistics (Power Point Presentation) Ashwell Jenneker     Technical Sessions     Emerging Applications A GIS-based National Household Energy Surveillance System: (Power Point Presentation) Genevieve Prud’homme The Increasing Use of Modern Digital Airborne Sensors for Burgeoning Environmental Applications. (Power Point Presentation) Kenneth Smillie Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) SA Chair Special Project: Data Democracy for Developing Countries (Power Point Presentation) Alex Fortescue Huge Images? Too Many Users? No Problem! (Power Point Presentation) Ian Anderson Remote Sensing for Developmengt of African Regions - Potential of Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) Missions (Power Point Presentation) Murthy Remilla L.N. Building Remote Sensing Capabilities in Africa:The Nigerian Example Idowu Innocent Abbas     Natural Resource Management Historical vegetation changes in the Greater Gaborone area-Botswana Reuben J. Sebego The protection and management of agricultural land A. Collett Mapping Environmental sensitivity index of the Niger delta to oil spill; The policy, procedures and politics of oil spill response in Nigeria Dr Oluseyi Fabiyi     Surveying and Mapping An accuracy assessment of the Hartebeesthoek94, the geodetic datum of the Republic of South African (Power Point Presentation) Aslam Parker Preliminary remote sensing investigation towards mineral potential mapping (Power Point Presentation) Luncedo Ngcofe Mapping South Africa, with a Digital Aerial Camera, From the Perspective of the National Mapping Agency (Power Point Presentation) Tomasz Zakiewicz     Urban and Rural Planning The Challenges of GIS Education and Training: (GIS use by Municipal Urban and Regional Planning) Hester Marais Spatially Enabled Datasets characterising the Urban Landscape Stuart Martin Partnership in Informal Tenure Upgrades Emmanuel Offei Akrofi Re-use of public sector environmental and land use information in property markets Geoff Offen     Water Resources Mapping of Water Bodies in the Cape Flats Area of Western Cape Using Remote Sensing: A Comparative Study for Two Periods (2000 and 2007) (Power Point Presentation) Abraham Thomas Use of Geospatial Techniques in Hydrogeological Investigations: A Case Study from Purander Taluka, Pune District, Maharashtra, India (Power Point Presentation) Sampada Joshi     Web GIS Rapid and Scalable Data Sharing in Disaster Situations with ERDAS TITAN Amy Zeller Creation of Cadastral database and Publishing it on the web for data retrieval, analysis and updation Nikhil V. Dakshindas