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xyHt Digital Magazine: Dec. 2024/Jan. 2025
xyHt magazine’s December 2024/January 2025 issue highlights our list of 25 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2025. There are some great young professionals doing some amazing things. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the...
Firas Fahoum – 2025 Young Geospatial Professional
Company: Galilee Surveyors LtdCurrent position: Geodetic Engineer and Land SurveyorAge: 27Education: BS geo-information and mapping engineer, Technion Institute of Technology Fahoum is a geodetic engineer and land surveyor at Galilee Surveyors, one of Israel’s top surveying companies. Based in Nof HaGalil, Fahoum ensures quality assurance on major governmental projects, maintaining high standards across national infrastructure...
25 Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch in 2025
Our annual list of “Young Geospatial Professionals to Watch” takes on a decidedly international flavor this year. As proof that surveying and the geospatial professions are becoming increasingly important worldwide, our list of 25 to watch in 2025 spans the globe from surveyors in Israel to GIS pros in Norway to the African continent to...
xyHt Weekly News Recap: 11/01/2024
Topcon Announces Topnet Live Coverage Expansion Across Western U.S., Hawaii Pioneering Tomorrow’s Infrastructure: Highlights from Bentley Systems’ Year In Infrastructure (YII) 2024 Official Geospatial Data Helps Copernicus Map Emergency Responses to Extreme Weather Strong Outlook for Global Sensor Market: Set to Exceed US$250B by 2035 Teledyne Geospatial to Present Preview of Coastal Mapping Solution at...
xyHt Digital Magazine: November 2024
xyHt magazine’s November 2024 issue focuses on building information modeling, with an in-depth look at the construction industry’s slowness to adopt the evolving technology. As always, if you don’t have a subscription to our print edition, or if someone else in the office has snaffled your copy, don’t fret, here is the digital edition. Click here or...
What a Small Porcelain Figure Says About Our Mapping Past
Maps as Art Street vendors in 18th century Europe hawked just about anything to satisfy the needs of their clients. They sold staples such as fresh fish, meats, kitchenware, as well as the latest fashionable clothes and home accessories. They also peddled maps. It was popular back then to hang maps on walls of houses,...
