This issue includes a varied set of articles and reports linked by evidence of strong advances in geomatics and a real influence on major new technical initiatives. The main article in this issue desc...

It’s interesting to see how technology evolves and how important geospatial data has become. The difference between how simple it may look to link data together and how difficult it sometimes can be...

The new editor of Geomatics World pays tribute to the work of Stephen Booth, editor of GW for 25 years and introduces priorities for the future. It is a great privilege to take over the position of ed...

For the last seven years, there’s been even more of a buzz in steaming-hot New York in the midst of summer, writes Durk Haarsma, publishing director of 'GIM International'. Every summer, several hun...

It was a pleasure getting this issue together – the theme Big Data sounds abstract and perhaps has first association with cloud computing, servers and other not-so-spatial aspects. We take a look in...

GW was launched nearly 25 years ago as Surveying World, then as now a joint product of RICS and a Dutch publisher. In between, there have been numerous changes, not just to the title but to the style,...

Starting with this issue, the editorial is dedicated to notes from members of our editorial board or authors, reflecting on the issue, the profession or an article they’ve been working on, giving an...

Surveying is dead easy isn’t it? Of course it is, we did all that trigonometry stuff at school for GCSE. With that fantastic new Topocorp Trigo measurer we’ve just bought we can survey anything. L...

An important issue for all our readers as we focus on education and training for GIS professionals plus the growing market for remotely sensed data from space. Just over two years ago Sir Mark Walport...

The rate at which technology evolves continues to surprise. Often something emerges in response to genuine human need, even if the need is down to a failure of government. Other times it is because th...