It is always interesting to discover applications of geospatial you’d never even considered. In September I attended a conference organised by GI Standards for companies and organizations involved i...

The rise of digital reading poses challenges for publishers. It seems all too easy to go digital, but are readers still comprehending as much? How are you reading this copy of GW? Are you holding the ...

There’s a little bit of geography in everything. That’s one of the main statements that ‘man with the mission’ Ed Parsons is trying to spread around the world. Ed Parsons is responsible for ev...

As an editor and publisher working in the technology sector I am often unsure of exactly what our editorial schedule is going to be for any particular issue. Whilst we don’t quite make it up as we g...

GEO Business 2015 reflected the wide variety of practice in geomatics. But we don’t attempt our hand at them all - unless perhaps the professional institutions want us to? London’s GEO Business co...

This year’s UK Esri conference attracted an astounding 2500 attendees, up by a thousand from 2014. As always, it was an incredibly busy day with far too many sessions to try to cover. I hope we’ve...

This issue is all about 3D Documentation but we’re not forgetting the infrastructure, mapping small islands and trying to get our fellow professionals to understand what we mean by scale. When you b...

Well, I am back in the editor’s chair, for a while at least. Drop me a line if you’d like to apply for the position. It’s not full-time employment, carries no pension and has only a meagre expen...

A close look at where geomatics skills could take you are examined through the experiences of two surveyors. The latest developments in technology too are covered. But beware the dumb disrupters! How ...

I hope I will be forgiven for putting Ordnance Survey in pride of place in my final editorial for GIS Professional. As a sometime employee, partner and customer of this British institution it has alwa...