The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced the election of Patty Mims, Javier de la Torre and Prashant Shukle to its board of directors. The new appointments bring experience in...

A Canadian archaeologist is using advanced mapping and visualization technologies to bring one of the earliest European settlements in North America back to life. Dr Jonathan Fowler combined a centuries-old...

Coal is falling out of favour, resulting in power plant closures. Mapping is a first step in the site redevelopment process, but data collection can be tricky. UAV mapping has...

Norway's national mapping agency has contracted the UK's ConsultingWhere to accelerate NSDI development in Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine using the IGIF. ConsultingWhere, a UK-based geospatial consultancy company, secured the contract...

The geospatial community will continue to thrive, but its success is conditional on its members being able to express and rationalize what they do, why, how and for whom, according to...

Which exciting opportunities lie ahead as the geospatial industry emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? And what other influences are shaping the future of our sector? The geospatial industry has been...

Trevor Monroe is a Senior Program Manager with the Analytics and Tools unit in the Development Economics Group. The unit uses capabilities of the digital age to produce modern data...

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, site visits are often out of the question for professionals supporting projects in the field. How can essential surveying and mapping work continue to be done...

GAF AG has won an international tendering process issued by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) for the provision of remote sensing data. The framework agreement includes...

SBG Systems is introducing the Virtual Base Station feature in its in-house post-processing software called Qinertia. Geospatial professionals benefit from an optimal centimetric position accuracy in all their projects, even...