In the future, mapmaking will be done bottom-up and no longer monolithically from the top down. The regions that will most benefit from this new approach will be the developing ones. The message broa...

A refreshingly ‘green' and exceptional voice from Brazil this month, as director Gilberto Câmara of the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) talks to GIM International about his count...

It's the entrepreneur with imagination that will survive, and acting like a sitting duck will not help you win through these both economically and technologically challenging times. ese two remarks b...

The overall opinion is that the gathering of geo-data is becoming easier through automation. It’s almost a ‘push the button’ and there’s your dataset. Of course this is something of an oversi...

Jumhuri Tojikiston is the official name for Tajikistan, a mountainous country in Central Asia. At GIM International we claim to be a global magazine, and one of the things we strive for is to co...

Travelling to India earlier this year, I was struck by the amazingly modern interior, numerous multimedia devices at my chair, and the service offered by the airline I flew with: one based in the Uni...

The use of geospatial information in business increases revenue and profits for entrepreneurships; it increases government efficiency and can reduce crime, prevent disaster or minimise the effects of ...

‘The Big Swing' is a term coined by Professor Stig Enemark, who left office as president of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) at the end of November last year. Enemark ‘s point is th...

It's almost impossible to encompass all subfields of geomatics in one issue of GIM, and although we try to serve you up as varied a menu as possible every month, it's not always easy. But I think we'r...

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...