GIS

Promising Agenda for 2014

The year ahead offers better opportunities than we’ve had since the financial crash of 2008. But it does need members to engage in events and in their journal. Tell us how we can improve and how you...

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GEO++

Geomatching

Where should I start in this, our thickest issue of the year? We’re in the midst of exciting times, not only in our profession but also within our publishing company, and this Intergeo-themed issue ...

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surveying

Fearless

Geomatics is undergoing dramatic changes at a previously unseen pace. Nowadays, geodata is acquired, processed, analysed and stored so radically differently than before that it must be difficult for a...

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land administration

Crowd

“Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organisation, or company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heter...

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Google

Fair Prices

I feel we need to discuss a principle that seems to have taken hold in recent years: that everything on the internet is for free. Consumers – professional or otherwise – have become used to obtain...

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geomatics

Feet on the Ground

In January of this year, I opened my editorial of this 26th volume of GIM International with a column entitled ‘25 years!’ – because, needless to say, we are celebrating our 25th anniversary thi...

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land administration

Future Outlook

Since fully functioning crystal balls are rare these days, brainstorming about the future is the only option left to you if you want to anticipate what lies ahead. Forming your own vision on current a...

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Survey

Crossroads

A few years ago, I decided to tear down an old shed in my backyard and erect a new one on a more practical spot. Since I live in the centre of an old town, my plot was compact, at around 170 square me...

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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.