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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...

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...

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...
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 ...
Bentley Systems has expanded Cesium’s capabilities by introducing new reality modeling services within the Cesium platform, strengthening its open ecosystem for the built and natural environment. Th...
Cintoo is transforming how professionals interact with high-resolution laser scan data inside Esri’s ecosystem with its new widget for ArcGIS. The company is responding to the blurring of the line b...
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...
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].