Earlier this week Autodesk hosted a forum for large organizations responsible for managing infrastructure networks. Participants included power, gas, municipal, and railway companies. The aspect of the forum that I found most interesting was the […]
One of the things that I find fascinating are the different ways human society benefits from sharing information. Let me give you an example in the geospatial arena. GITA conducts an annual survey of its […]
Managing network infrastructure (often called outside plant) in the telecom industry is challenging. I’ll explain why. For many years I have used a rule of thumb to estimate the complexity of modeling network infrastructure for […]
I was fortunate to attend Map India where I gave presentations on some of the themes of this blog. This year Map India was especially interesting for several reasons. First of all the theme of […]
In my last blog I described four of the major problems organizations responsible for maintaining network infrastructure face. These include the “as-built problem”, providing field staff access to timely, reliable infrastructure data, enabling field staff […]
Hello and welcome to a new blog that will have two key focuses, geospatial IT and how utilities, telecommunications firms, transportation organizations, and others who have to manage network infrastructures have used it to address […]