The 25th International Conference on Geoinformatics was held August 2-4 in Buffalo, New York, USA. The conference was co-organized by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at Buffalo (NCGIA-Buffalo) and the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences (CPGIS). Under the theme of Past and Future 25 Years, 240 participants from 89 universities and corporates around the world, along with 50 family members, gathered at CPGIS’s birthplace to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CPGIS.

The conference featured an unusually large number of world-class keynote speakers whose in...