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How have advances in aerial mapping played a role in the transformation to smart cities? These 4 case studies show how airborne data continues to shape modern urban development. What began an experime...

Having begun in the 1990s, the digitization of the property cadastre in Switzerland has now nearly been completed. At the same time, the cadastre of public-law restrictions on land ownership was also...

Now is the moment for GIS leaders, developers, analysts and educators to step forward, according to Wanjohi Kibui of LiGIS Consulting in Kenya. The global GIS market is predicted to grow by over 13% t...

Over the past 25 years, EuroGeographics has evolved from a ‘dining club’ into an influential non-profit association. In this interview, Sallie Payne Snell discusses the current and future challeng...

Ever since the Age of Exploration, surveying has played a crucial role in the mapping of our world. This article delves into the captivating history of surveying at a time when GPS did not exist. When...

Following decades of a global vision and small-scale progress towards a comprehensive map-centric land rights system, there are indications that today’s technological advances are putting a fully op...
To tie in with next week’s Intergeo, we’re running a prize draw for GIM International readers and visitors to our stand. As an extra bonus, we’re offering our newsletter subscribers the chance t...
With a commitment to generate more than one billion features worldwide, Ecopia AI has entered into a partnership with Maxar Intelligence to deliver high-precision mapping data on a truly global scale....
Aechelon Technology is fusing together leading-edge geospatial simulation, satellite imagery, radar intelligence, video photogrammetry and artificial intelligence into what it calls "a fully immersive...
As part of a new pilot project, the Danish Geodata Agency has charted 22,000km² of Greenland’s coastal waters, focusing on areas near Nuuk-Maniitsoq, Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit. The data is now...
The aerial survey for the Digital Twin Germany is now 50% complete, marking a key milestone for the Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) and one of Germany’s most ambitious geospatial pr...
Google has launched AlphaEarth Foundations, an advanced AI model that brings the Earth into unprecedented focus. Developed by DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab, the system acts...
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].