The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) is the premier biennial international research forum for Geospatial Information Science (GISc). It commenced in 1984, in Zurich, Switzerland and has been held in Seattle, USA; Sydney, Australia; Zurich, Switzerland; Charleston, USA; Edinburgh, UK; Delft, The Netherlands; Vancouver, Canada; Beijing, China; Ottawa, Canada; Leicester, UK; Vienna, Austria; and Montpellier, France. The 14th SDH will be a major event in the international community of GISc in 2010. It aims to bring together scholars and professionals from the international community of GISc to present latest achievements and to share experience in GISc research. The Symposium program will feature keynote speeches delivered by leading GISc scholars, technical sessions with reports of the latest research outcomes, student forum on meeting with GISc legends and commercial exhibitions showing the latest development of GISc technology. Paper selection is based on abstract and full paper peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings as part of the International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences. Selected papers will be published in a book of ISPRS book series.