I’ve been to several Map MIddle East conferences previously in Dubai and had always found many of the presentations worthwhile. There are always good speakers including invariably Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey, who was […]
I’ve been at Map Middle East in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Right outside my hotel on the Abu Dhabi corniche, I really didn’t pay attention to what looks like a rather tall palm tree, […]
At the recent GITA conference I heard a presentation by Steven Collier of Milsoft on the smart-grid. He illutstrated the distinction between the grid as we know it and the smart-grid by drawing an analogy […]
Last week the European Union (EU) Parliament passed legislation which includes measures to enable the deployment of smart meters for 80% of the EU population. The main objective of the legislation is to create a […]
One of the really amazing sessions at GITA this year was an emergency response panel on geospatial technology sharing among agencies in the federal government. Organized by Talbot Brooks of Delta State University The panel […]
The Obama Administration has announced plans for more than $3.3 billion in development grants for smart-grid technology and $615 million for smart-grid storage. Also announced were new guidelines for the ARRA smart-grid grants. The grants […]
President Obama has appointed Aneesh Chopra as federal CTO and Jeffrey Zients as chief performance officer (CPO). CTO and CPO are new positions created by the Obama administration. Annesh Chopra has been Virginia’s Secretary of […]
Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Topobase 2010, which extends AutoCAD to support geospatial infrastructure management in addition to design. Topobase includes water, wastewater, gas and electric data models and applications as well as […]