Travelling to India earlier this year, I was struck by the amazingly modern interior, numerous multimedia devices at my chair, and the service offered by the airline I flew with: one based in the Uni...

The use of geospatial information in business increases revenue and profits for entrepreneurships; it increases government efficiency and can reduce crime, prevent disaster or minimise the effects of ...

‘The Big Swing' is a term coined by Professor Stig Enemark, who left office as president of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) at the end of November last year. Enemark ‘s point is th...

It's almost impossible to encompass all subfields of geomatics in one issue of GIM, and although we try to serve you up as varied a menu as possible every month, it's not always easy. But I think we'r...

A bride, her hand sought by many an eager suitor. It's a historical image used for seventeenth-century Holland, rich as she was through trade in the East Indies, but also vulnerable. Her scale made su...

Ideas shape business. Sometimes it's good to realise that all applications and software packages found in the field of land registration and cadastre have their basis in ideas about how to arrange, l...

Imagery will be a future integral part of GIS. Some will argue that it already is. Some will even say that pictures are the basis, the fundamentals of GIS. Well, I can at least say we're well underway...

In the June issue of GIM International I joined Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa, in advocating making data accessible. This reasoning behind this rest o...

Don't sell the technology; sell the attractiveness of the profession. That might be a good solution to ever-decreasing student numbers. There's no conference held these days without the lack of new st...

Make data accessible! Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa was shedding light on the future of the geospatial business during his keynote speech to the 14th ...