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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...

Both vertical and oblique aerial images have their own advantages, making them valuable in different reality mapping applications. So how can you choose between the two? This comparison will help you ...

What hinders the design and implementation of digital twins? Read this ranking of the challenges based on a systematic literature review combined with an expert survey. Urban digital twins, as represe...

As a division of machine learning, deep learning (DL) has been achieving unparalleled success in image processing and recently demonstrated huge potential for point cloud analysis. Precise ground surf...

Data visualization is inherent to humans and continuously evolves, driven by innovation. How is GIS playing a role in this? The term 'data visualization' has come into popular usage relatively recentl...

To reflect the changing nature of our industry and attract much-needed future talent, perhaps it’s time to rebrand surveyors as ‘geospatial astronauts’, writes Wim van Wegen in his latest column...
Driving new opportunities in the mapping landscape, a significant milestone has been achieved in New Zealand. With the introduction of 3D mapping data for the Waikato and Southland regions, access to ...
Trimble recently released the Trimble Terra Office add-in for Esri ArcGIS Pro. The add-in is a new product in the Terra Office suite of desktop solutions for integrating Trimble TerraFlex field data c...
In the Open Maps For Europe 2 (OME2) project, national providers of geospatial information will create a prototype for harmonized large-scale, high-value pan-European open datasets. The project aims t...
Bentley Systems and WSB are collaborating to promote the use of infrastructure digital twins in civil infrastructure projects. WSB, an American design and consulting firm, has launched a digital const...
Presagis recently released the V5D Plugin for Unreal Engine, which lets users load GIS-generated V5D digital twins into Unreal Engine. This integration enables the creation of highly realistic visuali...
EDF, a French electric utility company, has partnered with Esri UK to implement an enterprise GIS for Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station, one of the largest and most complex construction proj...
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].