Data visualization is inherent to humans and continuously evolves, driven by innovation. How is GIS playing a role in this? The term 'data visualization' has come into popular usag...

Borough of Poole local authority has upgraded its mapping capabilities, both within its intranet and on the website. The new technology has improved information access for Council...

The combination of BIM and GIS technology (BIM+GIS) can provide complete and real-time data about facilities and equipment as the basis for more effective monitoring and management...

Over the last three years, building information modelling (BIM) has undergone rapid development around the world. The value chain of design, construction and operation of built ass...

Valued reader, It is with some sadness that I must inform you that this edition will be the final printed edition of GIS Professional. The difficult decision follows careful consid...

Everything is speeding up but I’m going to suggest slowing down. My guess it that the phrase ‘slow learning’ is new to many readers. Slow learning is a vision for...

There are still a handful of bridges, tunnels, and roads in the UK where tolls are still collected, along with a couple of more recent road-pricing schemes. In Scotland, all tolls...

Esri have big plans for the next phase of GIS, and it all starts in the classroom. In the following article, Niall Conway reflects on his recent experience at the Esri UK Annual Co...

Last month, while travelling from Konstanz, a town in the south of Germany, to Memmingen airport, I engaged in a conversation with a fellow train passenger. After discussing the Ge...

As the world became captivated with the challenge of rescuing the 12 soccer boys and their coach from deep within the Tham Luang Nang Non cave system in Thailand, GIS was applied t...

A few weeks ago, I caught up with an old friend who has a career in IT, focusing in particular on database administration. On almost each occasion that we have met over the last fe...

A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) seeks to harmonise users with the provision of data, metadata, software and computational services to provide a productive and flexible environm...

GIS Professionals within large corporate organisations sometimes find themselves at odds with ‘general IT’ management. Some CIOs, IT Managers or Enterprise Architects l...

This is the final part of three articles pertaining to what to expect as a GIS Professional on a chosen career path. Part 1 focused on what one can expect if they choose a career i...

On 13 March, Esri and Willis Towers Watson, insurance advisors and brokers, hosted a seminar on GIS and insurance at the Willis Tower in the City of London. This was the second suc...

In this article, we speak to Paul Ramsey about how both PostgreSQL and PostGIS can provide a solid foundation for any small to large organisational GIS architecture. Paul, a Soluti...

This is the second in a series of three articles pertaining to what you can expect as a GIS Professional on a chosen career path. This part refers specifically to the world of cons...

Welcome to the second edition of GIS Professional for 2018! The first quarter has seen lots of developments in the field of locational data and technology across a wide range of in...

To gain real insight into today’s geospatial business landscape, ‘GIM International’ decided to ask some of the sector’s most influential companies for thei...

As the power of locational data starts to dawn on a wider range of industries, the GIS profession needs to ensure that it understands the fast-changing world within which it operat...