Category Archives: Cartography
Technology That Tracks
A singular railway system provides a linear path from construction to maintenance on the Tren Maya. Mexico’s Tren Maya (Maya Train) has been lauded as “the most important public work in the world” by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Designed to boost economic and social development in the country’s southeast––a decades-long underdeveloped region––the 1,500-kilometer...
Measuring Change at Scale: FARO’s Mass-Data Vision for Digital Reality
At INTERGEO 2025 in Frankfurt, FARO®, a business of AMETEK®, Inc. wasn’t just celebrating a milestone, it was making a case for how 20 years of terrestrial laser scanning experience feeds directly into the next wave of GIS: mass data, AI-ready point clouds and digital twins that help societies manage infrastructure at scale. “All of...
Penguin Conservationists Use Maps and Satellite Images to Win Landmark Court Case
Penguins split their lives between land and sea, adapting with tenacity to the growing threats they face in both worlds. When those threats become too great, the people working to protect penguins are equally tenacious. Such was the case following a deeply disturbing act of environmental destruction along Argentina’s central coast. A local rancher bulldozed...
Workflow Innovations at Trimble Dimensions 2025
How a user-driven rethink of field–office connectivity, training, and cross-industry collaboration is changing the way surveyors, geospatial teams, and builders deliver work—on time, on spec, and at scale. Trimble Dimensions has never been a passive showcase. It has always been an event where surveyors, contractors, geospatial professionals, and engineers collide with technology and leave with...
Jack Dangermond’s Vision for the Future
The geospatial industry is moving through a period of profound transformation. Advances in reality capture, artificial intelligence, and cloud integration are converging with urgent global challenges, from climate resilience to urbanization. In this moment, few figures are as influential as Jack Dangermond, founder and CEO of Esri. For more than fifty years, he has guided...
Fixposition’s Vision-RTK Pro + Esri Is a Game Changer
The streets of modern cities are lined with glass and steel, forests close their canopy around remote infrastructure projects, and construction zones sprawl across bridges, tunnels, and high-rise footprints. These are not exceptions but the everyday environments in which surveyors and mapping professionals work. Yet in these very settings, the bedrock of their craft—centimeter-level GNSS...