The era of big data has arrived, and it has penetrated every aspect of human life.As the geo-spatial information science spawned by the intersection of earth sciences and information sciences, the advent of the era of big data provides it with richer prosperous data protection, but also brings new challenges in data storage, management, analysis, and mining, and even caused a certain degree of “data explosion”.From the perspective of big data, the bottlenecks and challenges in the four core areas of geographic information systems, smart cities, remote sensing big data, and spatial data mining were sorted out.And it was pointed out that geo-spatial information science can provide more accurate and real-time spatial information frameworks and more intelligent and more efficient information processing methods for geoscience research, serving intelligent cities, smart earth construction, and sustainable development in the era of big data.Moreover, in the era of big data, the development of geo-spatial information science is facing the double test of software and hardware levels.
