| B | Bulletin |
| B&L | Boggs and Lewis |
| BA | Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland |
| BAAMA | Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn. |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital GeoResource |
| BAKOSUR- TANAL |
Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia) = National Coordination Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia) |
| Banobras | Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico) |
| BAOR | British Army of the Rhine |
| BARCIS | BARCode Information System |
| BARD | San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database |
| BARP | Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland) |
| BART | Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California) |
| BAS | British Antarctic Survey |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information Consortium |
| BASINS | Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA) |
| BB | Band-by-band; Blattbereich |
| BBS | Bulletin board system |
| BC | Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.) |
| BCDC | Bay Conservation and Development Commission |
| BCGS | Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines) |
| BCH | Beach |
| BCSS | Battlefield Command Support System (Australian Army) |
| BDET | Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd. |
| BDG | Bridge |
| Bdy | Boundary |
| BE | Brick enclosed elevator |
| BEA | Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates |
| B.E.F. | British Expeditionary Force |
| BEG | Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas) |
| BEICIP | Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole |
| bes. | besonders |
| Betrbf | Betriebsbahnhof |
| BETS | Brunson Electronic Triangulation System |
| BEV | Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria) |
| BfGR | Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany) |
| BfLR | Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany) |
| BG | Block group |
| BGC | Business Geographics Conference |
| BGHT | Bight |
| BGN | Board on Geographic Names (U.S.) |
| BGS | British Geological Survey |
| Bgw. | Bergwerk = mine |
| Bhf. | Bahnhof = Railway station |
| BHS | Boston Harbor Software, Inc. |
| BI | Big Idea (NIMA); Business intelligence |
| BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.) |
| BICI | Book item contribution identifier |
| BIL | Band Interleaved by Line |
| BIOMAPS | Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources |
| BIOTROP | Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia) |
| BIP | Band Interleaved by Pixel |
| Bl. | Boulevard |
| BLDG | Building |
| BLG | Binary line generalization |
| BLIS | Brownfields Location Information System (Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce) |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management (U.S.) |
| BLOB | Binary large object |
| BLPU | Basic land and property unit |
| BLS | Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept. |
| BLT | Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland) |
| BLVA | Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt |
| Blvd. | Boulevard |
| BM | Bench mark; Bureau of Mines |
| BMA | Botswana Ministry of Agriculture |
| BMAC | Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.) |
| BMG | Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines) |
| .BMP | Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.) |
| BMR | Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea) |
| BMW | Barclay Mapworks, Inc. |
| BN | Biblioth`eque Nationale |
| BNA | Block numbering area |
| BND | Stream bend |
| BNPC | Bathymetric navigation planning chart |
| BNPD | Bivariate Normal Probability Density |
| BOA | Building omission area |
| BOC | Bureau of the Census |
| BOFRS | Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS) |
| BOLS | BADGER On-line Service |
| BOM | Bureau of Mines |
| BOP | Bureau of Printing |
| BOR | Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.) |
| BOREAS | Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study |
| BORPELS | Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.) |
| BOSS | Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on |
| BOTUS | Best of the U.S. (Space Imaging) |
| BP | Boundary marker (USDMA) |
| BPA | Bonneville Power Administration |
| BPI | Bits per Inch |
| BPPT | Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia) |
| BPR | Bureau of Public Roads |
| BPS | Bits per Second |
| BR | Bureau of Reclamation |
| br. | breit |
| Br. | Breite |
| Brck. | Brucke = bridge |
| BRFD | Bidirectional reflectance distribution function |
| BRICMICS | British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems |
| BRGM | Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France) |
| BRS | Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| BS | Bureau of Statistics (Japan) |
| BSC | Boston Survey Consultants |
| BSE | Base flood elevation |
| BSNH | Headwater basin |
| BSQ | Band Sequential |
| BSU | Base Spatial Unit |
| BT | Base Topo |
| BTA | Basic Trading Areas (FCC) |
| BTS | Bureau of Transportation Statistics |
| BUIS | Beihai Urban Information Center |
| BUPMIS | Beihai Urban Planning Management Information System |
| BUPNIS | Beijing Underground-Network Information System |
| BUTE | Butte |
| BVG | Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft |
| BVU | Brightness Value Unit |
| B/W | Black and white |
| BWC | Bandwidth Compression |
| BWE | Bandwidth Expansion |