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...

GW kick-starts the New Year with a strong focus on laser scanning and particularly point cloud software. Both topics that no doubt we will be returning to again during the coming year. The arrival 15 ...

We are delighted to congratulate AGI on reaching its 25th year and celebrating with a really good conference last month. 2014 GeoCom: The Changing Face of Geo celebrated the past but, more than ever, ...

This issue highlights some significant issues and technologies. But we ignore the consequences – possibly to our peril – especially if they reach the hands of those who are unaware of the underlyi...

Scotland says No! Better Together! But not back to square one. The genie is out of the bottle and the hangover in Westminster will be with us for some time. If the politicians are true to their words ...

The UK needs to define the geospatial job category, says one of our European colleagues. He’s on the money there for sure and chartered surveyors need to be in the vanguard. With the steady improvem...

This year we are seeing some big changes in our industry that will affect us all. These come from our own maturing technologies such as unmanned aerial vehicles, integrated LiDAR and video processing ...

FIG forms a focal and reference point for our profession as technology drives us forward. But there remains much from the past we can draw on. The FIG Congress in Kuala Lumpur is an important focal po...

In articles and in the news columns we have an eclectic mix of topics and geography this month – from land reform to lidar, from pricing and licensing to centralised address maintenance and from Wal...

The coming months will provide rich opportunities to study geomatics practice and new applications for geospatial technologies, but let’s not reinvent the wheel. This is a busy time for those in geo...