Since ancient times, human beings have been interested in knowing their environment in order to make the right decisions in territorial management. The spatial component is a feature of great importance in the assets that surround us. Heritage geoinformation is a convenient and effective way for management, protection and safeguarding of cultural and natural heritage. For optimal compliance, it is nowadays indispensable to rely on the use of new web technologies and geomatics knowledge that allow the documentation, visualisation, monitoring and management of heritage. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to develop a web-based cultural heritage management system in Cantón Nabón, Ecuador, as a case study. The system, consisting of a web-based geoportal accessible to the whole society, will allow consulting the geolocalised heritage information of the study area on a virtual map, as well as 3D geovisualisation in an interactive web viewer. The integrated system, once implemented, will take into consideration the preventive conservation cycle in the heritage field, highlighting, in Spanish, the creation of the heritage data models according to ISO21127:2014.

Since 2008, the Ecuadorian Constitution gave all the rights and responsibilities to the municipalities to preserve and enhance their cultural and natural heritage. Despite the heritage richness of Nabón, historically has been considered as a poor and under development territory of the province and the country. Nevertheless, for small and rural territories like Nabón in Azuay's Province (Ecuador), the resources intended for cultural conservation are usually scarce and/or limited, and consequently it reduces the potential development of appropriate measures and preventive conservation. Because of this, the present cooperation project between international institutions aims to reverse this situation generating an appropriate working methodology with the collaboration of architects and geomatics engineers. The latter experts have been developing their profession in the field of heritage in recent times generating the geometric documentation of heritage and enhancing it by disseminating and visualizing it through geoportals and the use of mobile applications. All this geometric documentation, altogether with historical and cultural heritage information available will make it possible to monitor the existing heritage in the site, inasmuch as until now no official monitoring instrument has been established in this Ecuadorian province.

Desde tiempos inmemoriales, los seres humanos, hemos necesitado diferenciarnos los unos de los otros y, a la vez, juntarnos en grupos similares, ya sea por una razón familiar, por lugar de origen o por gremios. En España, el uso de los apellidos como seña de identidad familiar se inició en época romana con el acompañamiento al nombre de pila del nombre del progenitor paterno. Su uso se extendió gracias al Concilio de Trento en el siglo XVI creando los diferentes apellidos españoles como los conocemos a día de hoy. Desde entonces, y tras siglos, un valor patrimonial incalculable se ha ido transmitiendo de generación en generación hasta llegar a nuestros días, pero no todos los apellidos han corrido esa suerte. La búsqueda, utilización y establecimiento de una legislación y unas técnicas tecnológicas para la preservación de los apellidos como patrimonio cultural inmaterial es necesaria. Técnicas jurídicas, genealógicas y cartográficas son las que se presentan en este artículo para revertir el riesgo de desaparición de los apellidos españoles. De igual forma, mediante un ejemplo práctico se contextualiza el uso de dichas técnicas sustentadas con la legislación vigente con la finalidad de salvaguardar el apellido español Vacelar.

The application of geomatics to the agroforestry field is acquiring greater prominence in recent times in a world that is increasingly digital and aware of sustainability and food security. The use of geomatics tools for 3D documentation and visualisation is becoming essential in so-called precision agriculture. This article describes the methodology used to obtain the wood volume of a set of vines in the town of Tarazona de la Mancha (Albacete, Spain).

Keeping the database of a country's land administration system up to date is essential for territorial and social development. In the dual Spanish case, public policies should be applied in order to coordinate and improve land management. This article aims to highlight the need to update the outdated cadastral ownership component as a result of its scarce updating. The comparison of cadastral ownership with population and genealogical information will be fundamental to show the current situation and justify the need to improve the rural cadastre.