Geo in everything

摘要

There's a little bit of geography in everything. That's one of the main statements that 'man with the mission' Ed Parsons is trying to spread around the world. Ed Parsons is responsible for evangelising Google's mission to organise the world's information using geography and he was interviewed in this issue of GIM International by our editorial manager Wim van Wegen (see page 14). Parsons is a geospatial technologist and has seen many changes in the field of geo-information since he started at Google in 2007. The most striking message that Parsons has for the field of geomatics is that there's 'geography DNA' in almost every product or service that one uses on the web or the smartphone. Geo-information is ubiquitous and that holds a big promise for the future.