The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has formed the Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC). Increasingly, public and private sector users and data and technology vendors have to be prepared for a wide range of legal […]
Monday, Harald Wolf, Senator for Economics, Technology and Women’s Issues and Mayor of Berlin presented a virtual 3D model of the entire city available on Google Earth , including some 890 km2 and 500,000 buildings. […]
The Guardian reports that the UK government has just evened the procurement field for open source software . This means that open source software companies are able to respond to RFPs from the UK Government […]
A little while ago I blogged about a GPS-enabled inexpensive digital camera , a Nikon P6000, that I had just acquired. Since then I have used it lot all over the world, and my conclusion […]
In What is Web 2.0? Tim O’Reilly distinguishes Web 2.0 from the first generation of Web applications and to me the most important differentiator is participation. Web 2.0 technology enables all of us to participate […]
The $787-billion economic stimulus bill, H.R.1 officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law by President Obama February 17. According to the Architectural Record $130 billion of the bill is targetted […]
According to my friend Gene Roe, the USGS will be allocated $140 million in funding from the Economic Stimulus Package H.R. 1 to support LiDAR data acquisition. Apparently, it has been suggested that there is […]
The recent announcement Grant County Public Utility District Selects Autodesk Utility Software reminded me of an important question utilities face when planning to address some of the the most common challenges utilities are facing. 1. […]