The 2009 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2009) conference web site is open for registration. FOSS4G 2009 is hosted by OSGEO and will be held Oct 20-23 in Sydney, Australia this year. […]
The Whitehouse web site is using OpenStreetMap data to track how people are delivering on change in their communities.
LEED v3 was released at the end of April. It includes technical advancements to the LEED credits and points, an upgrade to LEED Online, an expanded certification infrastructure based on ISO standards and administered by […]
Bill 150 2009 a bill to enact the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 and to build a green economy, was tabled at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on February 23, 2009. It is estimated that […]
I just came across a company called Green Ocean Energy Ltd that has developed a device called Ocean Treader. Conceptually it is pretty simple. There’s a central buoy-like device with two mechanically connected pontoons. The […]
Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and I gave a presentation at WAURISA earlier this week on the Evolution of Urban Modeling. Dan outlined the history of the Vancouver model and some the business drivers […]
This is something I meant to blog about last year, but somehow it didn’t make it. 3D printing does not refer to printing a 3D model on a piece of paper, which is what I […]
Most of the world’s vector spatial data is captured using CAD desktop applications, whether we are talking about engineering design data or traditional geospatial data. Over the past 20 or so years most of the […]