Earlier this year, United Nations secretary-general Ban-ki Moon officially approved the appointment of Stefan Schweinfest as director of the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and, thus, the Secretariat of the...

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC, USA) has adopted Version 2.0 of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) encoding standard. CityGML is a community-defined information model and XML-based encoding for...

The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) has approved and released the OpenGIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Simple Features Profile Specification. This standard defines a simple profile of...

The curtains have fallen on Intergeo 2023. What were the key takeaways from the vibrant three-day event in Berlin? From 10-12 October, a diverse array of experts and enthusiasts from...

Roshni Sharma has traversed environmental science and management, human geography, palaeoclimatology and business. She is now making it her life’s work to harness location intelligence to create tangible positive change...

Esri recently released Volume 3 in its popular Essays on Geography and GIS e-book series. In this collection of essays and articles, thought leaders in the fields of geography and...

Pedro Pacheco is a GIS officer and drone pilot for The HALO Trust. Based in Angola, he concentrates on the use of drone surveys for non-technical survey support to aid...

The highly anticipated conference at Intergeo 2023 is set to bring together the global geospatial community from 10-12 October at the prestigious Messe Berlin exhibition grounds. Notably, this year’s event...

Briana Brown is a geographer and writer specializing in geospatial storytelling. As director of content & product marketing at Ecopia AI – a spin-off from PhD research at the University...