The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) is requesting nominations for the 2009 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software. The Award is for individuals who have demonstrated leadership in the GFOSS community. […]
As of June 2009 departments of the Canadian federal government are expected to comply with the Treasury Board Standard on Geospatial Data for sharing spatial data within the federal government. Departments will have until May […]
Shann Hurley, AutoCAD blogger, was at the solid rocket motor test yesterday in Utah. The Development Motor 1 (DM-1) generated 36 million pounds of thrust and required a football field of concrete to keep it […]
President Sarkozy of France has proposed a carbon tax, a tax on CO2 emissions, starting January 1, 2010. The tax will be initially €17 per tonne of carbon dioxide and will be levied on individuals […]
NASA and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) have scheduled the static test firing of the new first-stage solid rocket motor for the Ares I rocket today in Utah. Shaan Hurley, Autodesk blogger, is there. The Ares […]
H5M, a joint design team of Hatch Mott MacDonald (HMM) and the MMM Group, has received an Autodesk BIM Experience Award for its innovative application of building information modeling (BIM) for the Port Mann/Highway 1 […]
This photo of the Butterfly Nebula was imaged on July 27, 2009 with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It’s actually a composite composed from images of emissions […]
I just came across an interesting guide for publishing government data on the web from the W3C eGovernment Interest Group (W3C eGov Interest Group). These folks are interested in improving government transparency through better use of the […]