A bride, her hand sought by many an eager suitor. It's a historical image used for seventeenth-century Holland, rich as she was through trade in the East Indies, but also vulnerable. Her scale made su...

Ideas shape business. Sometimes it's good to realise that all applications and software packages found in the field of land registration and cadastre have their basis in ideas about how to arrange, l...

Imagery will be a future integral part of GIS. Some will argue that it already is. Some will even say that pictures are the basis, the fundamentals of GIS. Well, I can at least say we're well underway...

In the June issue of GIM International I joined Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa, in advocating making data accessible. This reasoning behind this rest o...

Don't sell the technology; sell the attractiveness of the profession. That might be a good solution to ever-decreasing student numbers. There's no conference held these days without the lack of new st...

Make data accessible! Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa was shedding light on the future of the geospatial business during his keynote speech to the 14th ...

There are times when you long for the future just a little bit more than at other times. This is probably one of those. The economy has been suffering from the worst global crisis in eighty years and ...

It's one of the most sympathetic sides of land surveying: improvement in the economic situation of the poor. Approximately a billion people all over the globe are dwelling in slums. Having an officia...

The climate has been has been changing much faster over recent decades than in preceding centuries and millennia. These long-term changes have been observed at continental, regional and ocean basin sc...

With fast developing survey data techniques, still data seems to be getting lost somewhere in the middle of processing; too much data coming in, too little emerging from storage. While on the output s...