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The concept of the digital twin has been gaining significant momentum in the geospatial domain since 2016. Although there is some consensus on the basic features of a digital twin, some critical refle...

How can the dense point clouds that originate from 3D mapping be turned into useful game engine scenes? This article considers issues including point classification and segmentation, geometric accurac...

Hydrospatial could be described as that portion of geospatial knowledge infrastructure that addresses the hydrosphere, and hydrospatial technologies support navigation, economic development, stability...

Time issues associated with processing point clouds are hugely frustrating, but they are nothing new. And the shifting boundaries mean that we’re destined to forever play the waiting game, according...

As the demand for elevation data continues to rise, it is important that users match the level of reliability, accuracy and resolution of the data to their specific application to arrive at an appropr...

This article presents a participative geomatics project with the goal of increasing southern Québec’s coastal communities’ ability to map and monitor changes in their coastal environment. Capacit...
In a significant step in its digital transformation, the German city of Mainz and its municipal data centre (KDZ) have joined forces with VertiGIS and Esri Germany to overhaul the geospatial data inf...
What if Europe spoke one consistent geographic language? That is the ambition behind EuroCoreReferenceMap, a new pan-European dataset now under development by the national mapping authorities of Franc...
Aerial survey specialist Bluesky International, a Woolpert company, has introduced two new datasets designed to significantly enhance how trees across the UK are mapped, monitored and managed. Buildin...
Strong uptake and growing demand for harmonized cross-border geospatial data underline the impact of Open Maps For Europe 2. Since its launch, the initiative has demonstrated how authoritative nationa...
1Spatial, a global provider of geospatial data solutions, has been selected by Ordnance Survey as prime contractor for a five-year agreement to deliver the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) D...
The open-data GlobalBuildingAtlas is the first high-resolution 3D map of 2.75 billion buildings worldwide. Derived from satellite imagery by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), it...
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].