I’ve blogged about open data in the past and some of the issues with using Creative Commons licensing for data and why OpenStreetMap was looking at a new license specifically for data. The first version […]
Reports are coming from the State of the Map 2009 conference in Amsterdam, where Gary Gale, Head of UK Engineering for the Yahoo! Geo Technologies group gave a talk, that Yahoo! is planning to be using fully […]
The Geolocation API specification defines an API for scripted access to geographical location information. The document just published by the Geolocation Working Group is a Last Call Working Draft, which means that the Working Group has determined […]
Under the ARRA the Department of Energy has announced the availability of $3.9 Billion to develop smart-grid technologies and electric transmission Infrastructure. The U.S. Secretary of Energy announced that the Department of Energy is looking for […]
According to the Globe and Mail the G8 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union) have agreed to target limiting the global temperature increase to 2o […]
Many people have been expecting a Google OS since the Google Chrome browser was released. I still use Firefox most of the time, but am finding Chrome increasingly attractive because of performance and stability. In […]
According to the US Green Building Council, in the US, buildings account for: 72% of electricity consumption, 39% of energy use, 38% of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, 40% of raw materials use, 30% of […]
There’s a very worthwhile article by Terry Bennett that discusses sustainability from a civil engineering perspective and assesses the impact of building information modeling (BIM). Terry looks at the worldwide trend where architects and engineers increasingly […]