I am playing truant. I am speed skating when I should be writing my editorial. While I make my turns on the local ice rink, I slowly but steadily remember why it has been more than fifteen years sinc...

Welcome to your regenerated GIM International! As I forecast last month, GIM is ready for the new decade. Did you recognise it among your mail? The magazine has undergone a facelift and we th...

In his last editorial our publisher Durk Haarsma alerted you: “Stay tuned for more changes - always for the better, you can count on that - they’re on the way!” My signature underneath this edi...

Last month I introduced myself to you as the new editor-in-chief of GIM International. I fell on my feet. Very shortly after my appointment, I had the opportunity to see most geomatics fields represe...

I never could have guessed, working back then with a total-station doing field measurements in the Dutch fore-dunes, that ten years later I would be introducing myself to you here as the new editor-i...

Developments in geo-technology move almost faster than the speed of light, and as a consequence over the past few years the daily work of surveyors and adjacent professions has been changing dramatic...

Summer is in full swing in many parts of the world, and a lot of people are off travelling at home or abroad to unwind and relax, admire some beautiful scenery and try to recharge their batteries for...

“In the last forty years mapmaking, cartography, has changed more than in four hundred years before that,” Professor of Cartography Ferjan Ormeling told the Faculty of Geosciences at the Universi...

Geographical analysis must form the basis of any strategy for economic development of a region. Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York and writer of be...

Adding value to acquired geo-data will become the hottest topic for the business over coming years. The act of flying a country, province or other stretch of land to acquire and then process and deli...