According to an Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) study The Substantial Consumer Benefits of Broadband Connectivity for U.S. Households, approximately 66.6 million households used broadband in 2008. Dial-up users have decreased to 10.5 million households in 2008. […]
I blogged recently about the W3C Geolocation API which is progressing through the W3C standards process. Google Maps is using this API as of last week to identify your location. When you bring up […]
GeoWeb 2009 is taking place July 27-31, 2009 in downtown Vancouver, BC Canada at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and will focus on Urban Environments. This year it includes an academic track on […]
At SOTM09 in Amsterdam Andrew Turner announced that his company GeoCommons was open-sourcing their geocoder. You can get the LGPL-licensed code on GitHub and also see Andrew’s lightning talk presentation announcement on Slideshare.
The Razaksat satellite was successfully separated from the SpaceX Falcon 1 lauch vehicle about 48 minutes after liftoff at Kwajalein at 3:35 GMT (11:35 pm EDT). This is the first succesful launch of a satellite […]
If you’re working in a building information modeling (BIM) environment and want to analyze the structure for sustainability during the conceptual design phase, there is a Solar Radiation Technology Preview at Autodesk Labs that you might […]
I blogged about 3D printing earlier this year. 3D printing involves designing a 3D model in a design application such as AutoCAD, exporting an STL file and then literally printing a 3D object using a multi-pass […]
The extent of Arctic sea ice is one of the most accessible sources of data showing the effect of global climate change. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) began monitoring Arctic sea ice […]