Autodesk has announced that it plans to donate map projection technology to the geospatial open source community. Autodesk has acquired the technology from from Mentor Software which was founded by Norm Olsen. Mentor Software’s map […]
FOSS4G is coming up next week in Victoria BC. FOSS4G has always been a good place to see some exciting innovations by the open source community, and this year is no exception. There will be […]
To give you an example of what can happen with aging infrastructure, on September 30, 2006 an overpass in Laval, Quebec, Canada collapsed killing 5 people. As you might expect this caused near panic in […]
The OSGEO has announced that MapGuide Open Source 1.2 has been released. You can check the OSGEO Announcement for what’s new in MapGuide Open Source 1.2.
There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges […]