Excellence Awards 2025

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With an authentic history from 2007, Geospatial World Awards are an internationally acclaimed and premium awards recognizing model practices in the global geospatial industry. With the ceremony taking place at Geospatial World Forum every year, the awards have recognized over 200+ organizations till date.

Under the Excellence Awards, we have three main categories that are given to Organizations

Application Excellence Awards

These awards commemorate exemplary usage and application of geospatial tools and solutions in various industries.

Note: Application Excellence Awards is strictly conferred to project owner/user not the contractors or technology developers/providers.

Technology Innovations Awards

Disruptive innovation that drives wider adoption of geospatial technology in the mainstream.

Note: Opens to product offerings by technology companies with innovative integration of AI, ML, IoT, Cloud, PNT, Digital Twins, Metaverse, etc. If you’re nominating an application, please choose the Application Excellence category. Nominations in the wrong category will be considered as invalid.

Policy Implementation Awards

Empowering the organisations or agencies that are enabling the implementations of public policies directly impacting the development of geospatial science, technology and businesses or even state/national policies that have a major geospatial technology use in the public policy implementation.

Note: The nominated policy must be in effect and implemented, not a policy paper.

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A guest pass is given to the winners for the conference, and you may have a presentation slot to share your story.
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22-25 April 2025 | Madrid

2025 Awardees

  • Excellence in Downstream Space: Copernicus EMS & Spanish National Geographic Institute for Assessing and Mitigating the Impact of the 2022 Ceuta Wildfire.
  • Excellence in Spatial Computing and Digital Twin Enterprise: 3DProjectPlanner by the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Housing
  • Excellence in Energy and Utilities: UK Geospatial Commission’s National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) project
  • Excellence in Environmental and Social Impact: Zurich University of Applied Sciences & University of Zurich: Spatial Sustainable Finance Project
  • Excellence in AEC: LTIMindtree: LMNoP- Map- Based Mobile App for Optimizing Construction Site Operations,
  • Excellence in Smart City & Urban Planning: Riyadh Municipality’s Urban Data Centre
  • Excellence in Land Administration: SMART GEO SABAH—an initiative by Sabah Lands and Surveys Department
  • Excellence in Business Intelligence: Cognizant for Intelligent Work Allocator for Geospatial Services
  • Policy Implementation – Urban Mapping: India’s National Geospatial Knowledge-Based Land Survey – NAKSHA
  • Policy Implementation – HD Mapping Standards & Guidelines: Ministry of the Interior, R.O.C. Taiwan
  • Policy Implementation through Public-Private Partnership: Dutch Metropolitan Innovations Public Private partnership
  • Innovation in PNT and GNSS: Fixposition- Vision-RTK2