Queen’s Speech: ‘significant opportunity’ in digital planning

The inventor of a smart bike light that collects data about near miss hotspots is among the six startups in Geovation’s latest accelerator programme.

SatSense, a company whose technology can detect ground movements from satellite data, has raised £1.5m in its latest funding round ahead of launching a new online platform.

A lack of geospatial data standards and a shortfall in skills are stifling opportunities to solve the housing crisis, a report from the Geospatial Commission has found.

Maps from the French air quality information company allow users to track air pollution in real-time for every street in your city, with more than 100 major urban centres across the US and Europe now live.

Location data, also known as geospatial data, is used across sectors as diverse as infrastructure, housing and retail. The UK government has published a strategy setting out how the UK will unlock the power of location data.

Do you know your bathymetry from your cadastral parcel, your raster from your vector? The UK Geospatial Commission has produced a glossary to define the common terms found in using geographic information tools.

For the second year running Deetu, part of the BWB Group, has been appointed technical partner for MIPIM, where more than 25,000 of the industry’s most influential players gather from all sectors of the international property community.

Sadaqat Hussain is a rating apprentice surveyor and Katie Nelson is a surveyor for tenant representation at Cushman & Wakefield.

The High Court has ruled in favour of the mapping agency after a long-running trial over data rights brought up by startup 77M, however 77M did achieve a "measure of success" according to the judge.