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Beyond Amazon: Independent E-commerce Growth – Real-World SEO and Non-Marketplace Strategies

Mar 2, 2026 Blog

Beyond Amazon: Independent E-commerce Growth – Real-World SEO and Non-Marketplace Strategies

Beyond Amazon: Independent E-commerce Growth – Real-World SEO and Non-Marketplace Strategies Amazon accounts for roughly 37% of global e-commerce sales, but that leaves a…

Search, AI, and E-commerce: What’s Structural and What’s Noise

Feb 27, 2026 Blog

Search, AI, and E-commerce: What’s Structural and What’s Noise

Search, AI, and E-commerce: What’s Structural and What’s Noise Search has always evolved, often in ways that reduced clicks for publishers. What feels different…

MAIRDUMONT/Kompass and freytag & berndt join forces to build the world’s largest cartography publisher

Oct 22, 2025 Blog

MAIRDUMONT/Kompass and freytag & berndt join forces to build the world’s largest cartography publisher

MAIRDUMONT/Kompass and freytag & berndt join forces to build the world’s largest cartography publisher MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG, Europe’s leading provider of travel…

Mapping Leaders Forum 2025 provides insight, connections and forward thinking

May 27, 2025 Blog

Mapping Leaders Forum 2025 provides insight, connections and forward thinking

The International Map Industry Association (IMIA) hosted its Mapping Leaders Forum in London on May 14 -15, 2025. Chaired by Vivien Godfrey, CEO of…

New Boston historic illustrated map by Karpovage Creative makes its debut

Apr 10, 2025 Blog

New Boston historic illustrated map by Karpovage Creative makes its debut

In Boston, where a historic building, monument, or point of interest beckons around every corner, a birds-eye-view map is the perfect walking guide for…

Ethics in Cartography Call for Papers

Nov 8, 2023 Blog

Ethics in Cartography Call for Papers

Cartographic Perspectives is planning a special issue on Ethics in Cartography for their Fall 2024 issues. It will include two peer-reviewed papers and a…

Canada’s Largest Geospatial Exposition Hits Calgary This November

Oct 18, 2023 Blog

Canada’s Largest Geospatial Exposition Hits Calgary This November

In a landmark initiative, GoGeomatics has unveiled a national geospatial exposition. The inaugural GoGeomatics Expo is being hosted this year from November 6th to…

Future of the USGS topoBuilder Application

Feb 13, 2023 Blog

Future of the USGS topoBuilder Application

In February 2022, the National Geospatial Program (NGP) launched the topoBuilder application as a pilot capability for the public. This free, customizable, topographic mapping…

IMIA Statement on Ethics for the Map Industry

Dec 7, 2022 Blog

IMIA Statement on Ethics for the Map Industry

In June 2022, IMIA held a workshop on Geo Ethics at their Mapping Leaders Forum in Denver, Colorado. The workshop opened with a presentation…