Cartography is about describing the world in the form of maps and diagrams. Classic cartography produces paper maps but nowadays this field also encompasses Geographical Information Systems and the products produced by these systems. Cartography is heavily dependent on data from Remote sensing and Land surveying and topography for the dry part of our world and marine surveying and bathymetry for the wet parts of our world.  

Cartography / GIS can be found in almost any industry vertical where it transforms the various data sources into products readily useable in for example land and water management, climate and farming and conservation.

State of the art in 3D city modelling

State of the art in 3D city modelling

How does 3D city modelling fit within the context of broader developments such as smart cities and digital twins? And which six challenges must be overcome before 3D data as a platform becomes a reali...

Geoinformation Software as a Service

Geoinformation Software as a Service

Accurate geoinformation about urban areas, public buildings or historical sites is in great demand. It has become astonishingly easy to capture these scenes through cameras or laser scanning or to acq...

The Search for the Economic Value of 3D Geoinformation

The Search for the Economic Value of 3D Geoinformation

In 2017, 11 European public mapping agencies (PMAs) financed a EuroSDR project to explore the economic value of 3D geoinformation. They gained from being able to share knowledge with one another about...

The Need to Integrate BIM and Geoinformation

The Need to Integrate BIM and Geoinformation

In the construction industry, business relationships are often short term and one-off. There are many unique processes and activities. The resulting complexity and fragmentation may obstruct quick and...

How Geoinformation Enhances Professional Football

How Geoinformation Enhances Professional Football

This interactive pass map uses techniques from geoinformation science to highlight passing patterns in a new and innovative way. The visual exploration and analysis of passing patterns helps professio...

Getting ready for disaster events with remote sensing

Getting ready for disaster events with remote sensing

In a project in Haiti, several remotely sensed indicators were assessed to predict the completeness of Open Street Map for use in disaster relief and to guide future mapping efforts. Timely informatio...

Digital models for planning and disaster management

Digital models for planning and disaster management

Due to the local region’s proneness to occasional wildfires, the Geomatics Division at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, has conducted research and project work around the theme of 3D reco...

New Challenges for Digital Chart Production

New Challenges for Digital Chart Production

Hydrographic Offices (HOs) have realized that bathymetric data is not sufficiently represented in Electronic Navigational Charts (ENCs). A few aspects of this topic have already been touched upon in t...

From Nautical Chart to Digital Marine Mapping

From Nautical Chart to Digital Marine Mapping

Digital marine mapping became possible with the arrival of the electronic chart. The authors, who pioneered the re-engineering of this data for use in GIS, question whether the requirement has been fu...

Advanced urban 3D modelling and visualization

Advanced urban 3D modelling and visualization

This article outlines a generic workflow for automatic buidling detection and 3D modelling using modern technologies, to support applications ranging from urban planning and cadastre to change detecti...

Web GIS Improves Lidar Collection Response Time

Web GIS Improves Lidar Collection Response Time

The remarkable capabilities of airborne Lidar continue to improve, with scanners now able to emit more than a million pulses every second. Although it has never been easier to acquire high-quality las...

Web GIS Improves Lidar Collection Response Time

Web GIS Improves Lidar Collection Response Time

The remarkable capabilities of airborne Lidar continue to improve, with scanners now able to emit more than a million pulses every second. Although it has never been easier to acquire high-quality las...

Heritage BIM on the Move

Heritage BIM on the Move

In a system termed 'historical BIM', building information modelling (BIM) is becoming a useful approach in the documentation and enhancement of historical structures. It is not easy to convert point c...