How Geospatial Technology is Vital for Exploring Mars
Courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, NASA’s Perseverance rover was equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created when it landed on the planet...
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Benefits of GIS in Urban Planning
Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynam...
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Every month we will focus on a specific theme, featuring a selection of articles which have previously been published in GIM International magazine. GIM brings you a bi-weekly round-up of Focus Stories related to the theme through our newsletter (sign up here).
GIS
Petabytes of geographic and spatial data are being captured every day, but how to store, retrieve, manage, display and analyse this mind-dazzling quantity? A Geographic Information System (GIS) is the technology for making better decisions about location and the solution to capture, manipulate and present all types of geospatial data. This month is dedicated to GIS and therefore, we feature a selection of articles which have previously been published in GIM International magazine.
GIS portal enhances collaboration for UK nuclear power station
EDF, a French electric utility company, has partnered with Esri UK to implement an enterprise GIS for Hinkley Point C (HPC) nuclear power station, one of the largest and most compl...
SuperMap GIS 10i Released at 2020 GIS Software Technology Conference
The 2020 GIS Software Technology Conference (GTC 2020) was successfully held from 7 to 18 September 2020. Themed ‘Geo-intelligence Connecting the Future’, the conferenc...
Japanese City Performs Field Surveys Using GIS on iPads
The City of Tamba in Hyogo prefecture, Japan, performs field survey work using a mobile GIS application designed for Apple iPad tablet computers. The application, called Mobile Mat...
New Android Tablet for High-accuracy GIS Applications with Professional GIS Software
Elnav has launched its E-Tab series: industrial-level Android tablets with high-accuracy GNSS inside. The E-Tab series is designed for GIS professionals in the field and has advanc...
Aerial Photography Helps to Transform Policing in North Yorkshire
The latest aerial photography is helping the police in North Yorkshire, the UK's largest county, to save time and resources and transform policing. Supplied by Bluesky Internationa...
Innovation Drives the Continuous Evolution of Data Visualization
Data visualization is inherent to humans and continuously evolves, driven by innovation. How is GIS playing a role in this? The term 'data visualization' has come into popular usag...
Borough of Poole Makes a Splash with MapThat
Borough of Poole local authority has upgraded its mapping capabilities, both within its intranet and on the website. The new technology has improved information access for Council...
Combining BIM and GIS in Building Operation and Information Management
The combination of BIM and GIS technology (BIM+GIS) can provide complete and real-time data about facilities and equipment as the basis for more effective monitoring and management...
GIS – A New Direction?
Valued reader, It is with some sadness that I must inform you that this edition will be the final printed edition of GIS Professional. The difficult decision follows careful consid...
Is it Time for Slow Learning in GIS?
Everything is speeding up but I’m going to suggest slowing down. My guess it that the phrase ‘slow learning’ is new to many readers. Slow learning is a vision for...
Pioneering Location with an Out-of-the-box Approach
Esri recently exhibited at The Next Web Europe, a conference focused on entrepreneurship, technology and startups in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. But why was Esri involved? Is it lo...
Heroes of the 21st Century – An Ode to GIS
The term ‘superhero’, to which the copyright is owned jointly by the two biggest comic-book firms in the United States – Marvel and DC Comics – generally re...
Staying Debt-free Gives Us the Freedom to Do the Right Thing
“Staying private and debt-free gives us a level of freedom to do the right thing that we would never have in a heavily-leveraged company or public company,” Jack Danger...
Real Estate Price Distribution Analysis with GIS Technology
To improve the situation of the extremely high price level of real estate and to address the issue of adequate housing, the Taiwanese government has established the Real Estate Tra...
INSPIRE Boosts Spatial Data Sharing
The INSPIRE Directive was introduced in 2007 and should reach full implementation in 2020. Today, over halfway through the process, various important milestones have already been a...
Urban Planning, Management and Decision-making in the Cloud
SmarterBetterCities is a software company located in Zurich, Switzerland, which creates CloudCities: a cloud platform for smart city planning and smarter urban management. In line...
Serious Gaming: Improving Stakeholder Communication in Urban Development Projects
Today’s advanced computer technology enables several players to play the same game at the same time. Can the visualisation technology used in 3D multiplayer games designed fo...
Bringing Geography into Everything
As Google’s geospatial technologist, Ed Parsons is responsible for evangelising Google’s mission to organise the world’s information using geography. GIM Internat...
Is GIS Dead?
Three colleagues and I have been wrestling for two years with how we can best deliver a new version of our GIS textbook. The three previous editions have been successful, having so...
Let’s Make the World a Better Place with Maps
Menno-Jan Kraak is the newly elected president of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). Cartographer Kraak is a professor in Geovisual Analytics and Cartography at the...