The Japan Chapter of the OSGEO held its first seminar at the Tokyo Convention Center. I have heard that more than 170 people attended, which is a tremendous turnout. Kazunori Noda, well-known in the geospatial […]
Last week, the European parliament and council of ministers worked out a compromise to the INSPIRE directive whose purpose is to harmonise spatial information in Europe. The directive had become the focus of an intense […]
Most of this week I am at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. I don’t know the numbers, but last year there were about 5,000 participants, if I remember correctly, and this year there appears to […]
I’ve just spent a few days at Map Africa and this has been a very interesting conference. First of all it has not been a traditional GIS conference. There has been a strong focus on […]
At Oracle Open World I had a chance to chat with Peggy White, CIO of the St Johns River Water Management District, and Jim Ren, who I’ve known for many years and who also is […]
Last week I attended a fascinating conference in Los Angeles, the annual APWA (American Public Works Association) Southern California Conference. Most of the people attending were water and waste water management professionals, primarily from Los […]
In the last month or so there has been some interesting developments with respect to open source and GIS. I’m including a link to James Fee’s blog James Fee on GIS and Open Source where […]
I’ve been at the Space Technology and Geo-Informatics 2006 conference and there have been a number of presentations about new earth observation satellites. I’ve seen presentations from Japan, Thailand, Canada and MDA, and Digital Earth. […]