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Canada’s Pollutant Inventories and Reporting Division (PIRD) faces the massive task of creating a greenhouse gas inventory for the entire nation. A key part of this analysis is the use of remotely s...

How can we address the need for frequent large-scale mapping in order to model real-time change? In this column, John Welter, president of geospatial content solutions at Hexagon Geosystems, zooms in ...

Aside from the normal barriers to implementing change within a business, additional barriers exist in the case of building information modelling (BIM). Implementing BIM requires leadership, a team wit...

Despite forecasts revealing that growth in the construction sector will rise by a staggering 70% across the world by 2025, it’s fair to say that compared to other industry sectors, the construction ...

Although it is difficult to entirely close the gap between geospatial and construction data, building information modelling (BIM) could help to narrow it. This article explains how. There is a gap in ...

During Digital Construction Week (DCW), which was held at the Excel in London from 16-17 October 2019, there was one seminar stream on geospatial surveying and two specifically on building information...
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...
In September 2026, Saxion University of Applied Sciences will launch the Netherlands’ first Associate Degree in Geo Maps & Data. This two-year degree, developed in close cooperation with industry pa...
Esri is bringing its geospatial AI platform, ArcGIS, together with the scalable cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This will enable organizations to deploy enterprise-scale geospatial ...
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].