Geomatics Magazines - Top 40 - 5 Years Later

In 2013, we did a categorization of magazines dedicated to the field of geomatics, using their Alexa ranking as a reference. 5 years later we have made an update.

As we said before, geomatics magazines have gradually evolved with the rhythm of a science whose definition depends a lot on technological advance and the fusion of disciplines around Geo-engineering. Current trends killed long-standing print magazines, reoriented the priority topic of other publications, and closed the gap between what is a conventional magazine with a digital publication with blog features; adding its influence on social networks. The added value in knowledge management and synergy between actors became more important with what the role of conventional publisher moved to coordination of international events, webinar service and publication of digital content.

Measurement using the Alexa ranking

I am using the measurement of Alexa, dated March 31, 2019. This ranking is dynamic and changes over time depending on good or bad practices of the websites and adjustments of Google's algorithms. In general, it is a kind of equivalent to readers or visitors plus a health relationship of the site.

The lower the Alexa rank, the better it is, which is why Facebook.com and Google.com are usually in the first two numbers. It is not so easy to be below the top 100,000 and although there is also a ranking by country in this case I have preferred to do it using the global one, indicating in the table the ranking for Spain as additional information and some country where the site also has a significant ranking.

It is interesting, because in the top10, beyond trying to be a competition, it shows the complementarity that the knowledge dissemination sites represent in this ecosystem. At that time there were only two Spanish-speaking sites (Geofumadas and Franz's Blog). Today we have 4 Hispanic sites, with the growth of MappingGIS that rose from the Top30, GIS & Beers that by then did not appear as well as the Teritorio Geoinnova blog.

This is the new Top40 status to 2019.

As a reference, I show the previous status in 2013

Where did the list of geomatics magazines come from?

I have used a total of 40 publications, maintaining the previous list, although eliminating at least 6 that are already out of circulation, ordered to a ranking of less than 5,000,000. While that is a fatal position for a site, I have extended it there to be able to measure the growth of some magazines that deserve better luck.

• 21 of these magazines are in English.
• 14 are from the Hispanic context. With the Geofumadas variant and the gvSIG project blog, which have a traffic of other languages ​​although they are originally produced in Spanish.
• 5 are of Brazilian origin. With the variant in this case, that MundoGEO also has a Spanish version in its traffic.

The Brazilian ones are marked in green, the Spanish ones in orange and the Anglo-Saxon ones in blue.

The Top 10 list

Some peculiarities of this Top10:

• In general, they remain in the top 10: gislounge, gpsworld, geofumadas, and ArcGeek (franz's blog).
• New tenants in this top 10: Geospatialworld, Mappinggis, geoawesomeness, ClickGEO (Anderson Madeiros' blog), Geoinnova's blog and Gis & beers.
• They left the top10 directionsmag.com switched to the 12, mapsmaniac.com that died, mycoordinates.org to 30, giscafe.com to 24 and mundogeo.com to 11 and Gisuser to 19.

The list of 10 to 20

The list of 21 to 30

The list of 31 to position 40

In conclusion, it is important to rescue the presence of the 14 Spanish-language sites (Before there were only 8) within a complex list to scale with a higher interesting positioning. Although the Spanish-speaking field is much broader than these 14, such as the impressive Nosolosig list.

It is true that to make the selection of which sites to enter the holes that they have been of the first list of 5 years ago, it has not been easy; especially since the initial margin was more in favor of English-speaking magazines; which has now changed so much. In a while we will make a new update, considering that interesting representatives of the Hispanic medium have remained in this court: as an example, Infinite Geography which has been around 5 for years with a reach in means beyond the web that many of us would like to have; if it were to be fair, Geografiainfinita should be in the 8 position; same after the publication we have been reported by Interesporlageomatica.com that should appear in that top, in a position 37 with a pr of 2,590,195. So, since a cut had to be made, we have left the graph and tables there; If you think that any other site should be on this list or at least be targeted for further review, please notify editor@geofumadas.com.

We are likely to do the same as in the Top40 from geospatial Twitter, where it was necessary to draw a Hispanic and English-speaking ranking.