Bright Future
There are times when you long for the future just a little bit more than at other times. This is probably one of those. The economy has been suffering from the worst global crisis in eighty years and ...
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Action
It's one of the most sympathetic sides of land surveying: improvement in the economic situation of the poor. Approximately a billion people all over the globe are dwelling in slums. Having an officia...
More with Less
The climate has been has been changing much faster over recent decades than in preceding centuries and millennia. These long-term changes have been observed at continental, regional and ocean basin sc...
Endless Data
With fast developing survey data techniques, still data seems to be getting lost somewhere in the middle of processing; too much data coming in, too little emerging from storage. While on the output s...
Making Public Data Public
While the end of November marked the 24th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in South America, my personal organiser said I was unable to make it. But before the conference was even over I re...
Geomatics 2.0
We all know about the rapid evolution in world mapping. While mapping was long the domain of skilled mapmakers, nowadays it is increasingly in the hands of the lay public, sometimes resulting in bett...
Paradigm shift
And there it was again, the treat of the year: Intergeo, the biggest and one of the most significant annual events in the calendar for our business, showing all the latest technologies and innovation...
Geomatics Geneology
A year ago I experienced my baptism of fire at Intergeo as the newly appointed editor-in-chief of GIM International. This year I know what to expect, and look forward to meeting exhibitors and visito...
Sharing Knowledge
Every month I write my editorial and in doing so give you, our reader, a little bit of myself; a thought, view or experience. But what do we know of you? If you subscribe to GIM International we know ...
Do-it-yourself Geography
Conferences have changed. That’s what I concluded after June’s GSDI conference in Rotterdam. It’s all about multimedia. Scientific presentations today are always in PowerPoint and come with int...
Introduction
Every issue of GIM International is introduced to its worldwide readership by the publisher. It’s in this place that developments in the geomatics business, tools and techniques, hard- and software and more are put in the broader light of the outside world of economics and entrepreneurship. Regular and returning topics are for instance the geomatics business in upcoming regions, but also the importance of developing state-of-the art cadastre and land registration systems for the future welfare of citizens or the increasing application of new techniques like crowdsourcing and UAV’s.