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“A well-functioning land administration system is the foundation of national stability and social welfare. A government can make a thousand promises, but without an efficient cadastre, those promise...

Gombe, Tanzania, is one of the few conservation landscapes in the world where more than six decades of continuous field research are combined with cutting-edge geospatial innovation. In the place wher...

In 1969, Jack and Laura Dangermond launched Esri with a bold idea: geographic tools could help people understand – and actively shape – a better world. Such tools now underpin billions of maps cre...

City digital twins are emerging as essential tools for urban management worldwide, including in Indonesia. In collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning, the ...

The lack of a large, open benchmark dataset that combines Earth observation imagery with accurate cadastral references has been holding back progress in the land administration community. This article...

A state-of-the-art global coastal digital terrain model (DTM) with a resolution of 1 arcsecond (~30m) has been created by researchers at Deltares and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands....
Europe's busiest airport has deployed Heathrow Explorer, a new geospatial and data platform aimed at streamlining operations at Heathrow in the UK. The platform consolidates infrastructure and asset d...
The European Commission is investing €6 million in a new programme to support free and open-source software in the geospatial domain. The GeoCommons programme will grant funding directly to research...
78% of UK geospatial and GIS professionals say that geospatial outputs are being requested faster than their teams can support. These and other findings from a recent survey, published in a new by Lan...
Vietnam has launched one of its most ambitious digital governance projects to date: the complete overhaul and digitalization of its national land database, covering approximately 106 million land parc...
The acquisition of 1Spatial by VertiGIS will allow 1Spatial’s data-management platform to be combined with VertiGIS’ geospatial solutions for utilities, governments and commercial enterprises, res...
For surveying firms and GIS-driven organizations looking to close the gap between office and field productivity, Getac has added a new device to its rugged computing lineup: the G140 tablet. The recen...
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].