The UK Government has announced its intention to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April. The Free Our Data campaign has worked for over three years to convince the […]
Autodesk University happens next week in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the utility related events. Monday, November 30 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm Utility Symposium Lunch – [South Pacific C – Mandalay Bay] 01:00 pm […]
According to the Ordnance Survey, OS OpenSpace is intended to promote free and open access to Ordnance Survey data (which is in general relatively expensive) via the OS OpenSpace API to application developers. This means […]
I’ve attached an interesting graph that shows that China has passed the US in emissions, no mean feat, but China has 1.3 billion people contributing compared to the US’s 300 million. UK PM Gordon Brown […]
The Clean Water Act of 1972 was to intended to upgrade the US’s sewer systems. In the 1970s and 1980s, Congress distributed more than $60 billion to cities to upgrade sewer systems. In 1994 the […]
Ed Parsons reports that he has Chrome OS running on his Aspire One, “deadly fast” he says.
Suddenly there is a renewed world effort to achieve some measure of progress toward an agreement to replace the Kyoto Accord. In preparation for the Copenhagen meeting, China’s State Council says China will reduce its […]
One the important impacts of the current economic downturn is a massive increase in infrastructure spending by all levels of governments as part of economic stimulus spending. One of the most important drivers for new […]