Georg Gartner is a Full Professor of Cartography at Vienna University of Technology and head of the Research Group Cartography. He was the Dean of Academic Affairs for Geodesy and Geoinformation at Vienna University of Technology. He is the organizer of the International Symposium on Location-Based Services and Editor of the Book Series “Lecture Notes on Geoinformation and Cartography” by Springer and of the Journal on LBS by Taylor & Francis. He served as President of the International Cartographic Association and as Vice-President of the Austrian Society of Geodesy and Geoinformation, and is a member of the Academic Network of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management.