A landslide on Clifton Beach, New Zealand, earlier this year injured two Korean tourists when they were washed out to sea. Following this event, the beach was closed while Hastings...

Richard Groom provides pointers to articles from the FIG Congress in May. Papers can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/2yz8xlB. Changing Survey Muller and Klein (TS06C) look at moves to update the...

Without a doubt, this year’s GEO Business was the biggest and best yet. The heart of the event is the exhibition and this year there were 203 exhibitors from 25...

Phil Payne gives a personal account of his experience in the Caribbean at the time of Hurricane Irma. He reminisces on the usefulness of basic techniques when the latest systems...

GW was not at the Working Work in Helsinki in May, but FIG publishes most of the technical papers presented at the conference on its website www.fig.net. Richard Groom has...

Providing a high quality service within tight time constraints is an on-going challenge for surveyors Greenhatch Group. Their survey teams value reliable performance from their instruments and regularly review how...

Now that some of the core infrastructure challenges have been solved, the application layer of big data is rapidly building up. Therefore, the major GIS players have recently been focusing their attention...

International boundaries are moving up the geopolitical agenda and GW was ahead of the pack three years ago. In the meantime, there are lots for readers to get to grips...

'How to build a new geospatial ecosystem' is the main topic of this year's World Geospatial Developers Conference, WGDC2015. The geospatial conference will be held on 10 and 11 June...

The Royal Institution of Navigation has warned that we are becoming too dependent on satnavs and smartphones. It believes that traditional navigation skills encourage independent thought based on calculation and...