Having received the Geospatial World Excellence Award 2014 and Asia Geospatial Excellence Award 2014, Supergeo has once again added new trophies to its honour wall for contributive...

Nathan Heazlewood works in New Zealand where the industry also has similar skills shortages to those here. He shares some thoughts on how we define our jobs and how we might better...

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 b...

“Staying private and debt-free gives us a level of freedom to do the right thing that we would never have in a heavily-leveraged company or public company,” Jack Danger...

A brilliant sunny day in London was a chance to recharge enthusiasm for GIS and learn about some startling new applications of the technology. On the wall of one of the reception r...

Receiving GIM international each month gives readers the opportunity to learn about important emerging technologies and some great initiatives that are moving the SDI agenda forwar...

  What is the best way to represent the population of provinces or counties – by absolute numbers or using population density? When computing an optimal truck route, how...

Dealing with lengthy political processes; employees threatening to quit at the mere thought of working in a standards role; hearing jokes made about the result of your hard work. A...

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...

Determining changes in the built-up area over time can be done in many ways. In the Czech Republic, only the large cities can afford to monitor such changes using advanced and expe...

Charles has been Esri UK’s chief technology officer since 2008. He is committed to ‘reducing barriers’ to the use of geospatial information. Robin Waters met Char...

After more than ten years as a director of Ordnance Survey, James Brayshaw recently left to join Pitney Bowes Software based in Henley. Robin Waters caught up with James, who is no...

Taking its name from Gaia, the Greek goddess of the Earth, Gaia3D, Inc. is dedicated to digitising the Earth and various features on it in 3D. Gaia3D is a professional software and...

Our editor Robin Waters talks to John Booth, team leader for traffic management at Mouchel, who explains why he switched his department to digital data capture, the challenges invo...

Our editor Robin Waters interviews Jus Mackinnon, a founder of CrisisMappersUK, who is a self-taught GI enthusiast with a background in aviation and a passion for humanitarian reli...

Wisdom dictates that the most appropriate response to a financial crisis and impending recession is to become more competitive by enhancing your knowledge and improving your servi...

Founded in May 2001, KQ Geo Technologies Co., Ltd. is one of the few A-level surveying and mapping service providers qualified by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping in China...

This paper implemented Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to explore the settlement patterns of ethnic groups in Nan, Thailand, in relation to geographic factors. The g...

Estimating rainfall discharge is difficult in large catchment areas with varying topography. This leads to widespread inadequacy in culvert design, with resultant damage to these a...

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has been reduced from 27,000km2 in 2004 to 6,500 km2 in 2010, thanks to the earth observation technologies of that country’s Nation...