About the Journal

GIS Odyssey Journal  ISSN 2720-2682 (online), is an interdisciplinary, international, peer-reviewed and open access journal, published in the electronic version.

Publication in the journal is free of charge.

Articles are published in English only.

Open access statement

GIS Odyssey Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license.

After acceptance of a manuscript, a scan of the declaration should be required.

Aims and scope

The GIS Odyssey Journal provides an advanced forum for geographic information science and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in various areas of knowledge: GIS in humanities (such as archaeology, history, culture and religion studies, arts studies, etc.); GIS in engineering and technology (such as architecture and urban planning, spatial planning, Smart City, information and communication technology, civil engineering and transport, geodesy and cartography, photogrammetry and remote-sensing, UAV Systems, cadastre, real estate management, water management, sustainable development, environmental engineering, mining and energy, geology, etc.); GIS in agricultural sciences (such as forestry, agriculture and horticulture, fisheries, etc.); GIS in social sciences (such as economics and business, social and economic geography and spatial management, political science and public administration, law, etc.); GIS in natural sciences (such as earth and related environmental sciences, biological sciences, etc.); GIS for security purposes (such as shaping safe space, modelling extreme phenomena and disasters, threat maps, crime mapping, actions of rescue services, etc.).
The aim is to publish novel or improved contributions in: Cartography, Geoinformatics Systems – Information Technology, Geoinformation and Law, Cultural and Natural Heritage Management, Globalization and Social-Economic Problems, The State and Local Level Administration & Management, Ecology, Sea and Water Management, Environmental and Earth Resources Management, Spatial Information Systems in Practice, The New GIS Solutions, Agriculture and Forestry, The Integrated Europe and World – Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe, Emergency Management – Post-War and Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects, Smart city.

It is published since 2021 year as semi-annual by:
- SILGIS Association – Będzińska Street 39/401, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland; silgis@us.edu.pl; www.silgis.us.edu.pl
- and Croatian-Polish Scientific Network (CPSN); cpsn@us.edu.pl; www.cpsn.us.edu.pl
Previously since 2016 till 2020 published as Conference proceedings (GIS Odyssey) by GIS Forum (Croatia). From 1994 till 2015 achievements of international GIS conferences based on Croatian-Polish cooperation were published in the form of books.

For authors affiliated with Polish institutions:
According to the announcement by the Minister of Science dated 5th January 2024 "GIS Odyssey Journal" received 20 points. Assigned scientific disciplines: information and communication technology; law; social and economic geography and spatial management; Earth and related environmental sciences; forestry; agriculture and horticulture.