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. […]
A headline on CNET this AM begins “When hell freezes over…“. What the headline was referring to was the agreement announced by Novell and Microsoft to collaborate to help Microsoft’s Windows to work with Novell’s […]