The geospatial media industry is really negligible. Some blogs here, some magazines there. Luckily their authors are very hard-working. This article will introduce a magazine called “Geospatial World” (formerly known as GIS Development magazine).

Since 1997 the magazine investigates geo-related topics and writes about present viewpoints of experts, worldnews, case studies, reviews, upcoming technologies and more.









Besides the monthly free downloadable and printable PDF-magazine, geospatialworld.net offers a latest news section a blog and possibilities to stay updated via email-newsletter.

latest stories

Latest title stories from 2015:

– Food Security

– National Mapping Agencies

– BIM+GIS

– Mining and Safety Management

– Smart Data for Smart Cities

– Convergence – Intergration of Technologies

– Powering Up Grid 2.0 – Special focus on Electric Utilities and GIS

– The Google Geo Business Mantra

– Readers’ Survey

– Annual Edition

Here you get the overview for years in the past.

structure

The latest volumes are structured in different sections, which empowers its readability and clarity.

– editorial

– news (sometimes separated in world regions)

– cover story

– articles

– reports

In fact Geospatial World magazines contain a lot of advertisement but nevertheless its worth reading, because you get a lot of topical news and expertise.

What’s your favorite geospatial magazine?