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.
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 technologies and wi...
GIS software is usually customised using intrinsic programming and writing scripts in conventional programming languages. Since these scripts are run through an interpreter they are slower to execute ...
In the summer of 2015, more than 300 dead dolphin calves were found along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. As no governmental institution investigated this strange case, an international team of scienti...
GIS Professionals within large corporate organisations sometimes find themselves at odds with ‘general IT’ management. Some CIOs, IT Managers or Enterprise Architects lack a full understanding of ...
Over past decades, as GIS grew from infancy to relative adulthood in the rest of the world Africa remained a white spot on the GIS map. Considering the size of the African continent, that spot was qui...
In order to better understand the increasing availability and emerging popularity of opensource GIS options, you first of all need to place it in a wider evolutionary context. From the 5th Century’s...
Modelling is a well-proven and widely accepted engineering technique for controlling complex reality. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose aid for graphical modelling. The author prese...
The world population is growing rapidly, putting urban planning under increasing pressure. Cities are facing challenges such as how to improve the environment and how to reduce the impact of congestio...
3D-GIS tools are very powerful. They add a third dimension to the already very strong and useful 2D-GIS functionalities, allowing complex sets of information to be combined with maps, plans and any ot...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) offer oversize opportunities for monitoring and managing many facets of our vulnerable world....
As may be expected from a technology driven magazine, these pages are strewn with TLAs and FLAs (Three and Four Letter Abbreviations). A small selection drawn from recent bouquets includes ‘AJAX’...
(Geo-)information is an essential asset for managing protected areas. Although plenty of (geo-)information is in place today, the challenge is to bring it to widely distributed users. The authors deve...
Medair is a medium-sized relief agency with outstanding commitment to work with vulnerable people who are in extremely remote and difficult-to-access places. Medair uses the power of geo-ICT to help c...
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 environment for working with...
In May 2007 a new bill on National Spatial Data Infrastructure was enacted by the Japanese government, aiming to provide a legal framework for the development and distribution of geo-information based...
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