The Spatial Enablement of Society in conjunction with Spatial Data Infrastructures

FIG2010 has provided many insights into all aspects of Surveying and Land related activities.

Surveying is not only related to cadastral land surveying as it covers all activities involving land as highlighted in my previous post.

Young Surveyors Building the Capacity & Facing the Challenges

The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) congress rolls into town this week (Sydney April 11-16) and from all the hype surrounding this congress it will no doubt be well received and a great learning opportunity.

Of course, FIG is not primarily aimed at traditional surveyors, the ten commissions setup cover everything from education and standards to spatial data infrastructures, planning and development , real estate, valuations and also construction economics. In all, FIG covers everything to do with land and as we are seeing more and more evidence of, almost all information collected is being linked back to the land.