Crowdsourced geospatial landbase data is competitive in many parts of the world with government or commercial geospatial data. The best known crowdsourced data source is OpenStreetMap. To date OpenStreetMap data has been licenced under Creative […]
I blogged recently about the progress in smart grid standards over the past year including the NIST Smart Grid Framework and the SGIP Catalog of Standards. NIST SGIP has just announced the process by which […]
Autodesk was founded January 30, 1982. Later it would bring Computer Aided Design (CAD) down from mainframe systems to the IBM PC and DOS with a new product named AutoCAD.
I have blogged previously about the aging workforce challenge facing the US, Western Europe(especially Germany), South Korea, Australia, Canada, and Japan. Government projections of population decline in Japan are unparalleled anywhere else in the world, […]
The OGC Open GeoSMS Standard is an extended Short Message Service (SMS) encoding and interface for exchanging location content between devices or applications. The OGC has just announced that the OGC membership has voted to […]
Following last year’s well-attended international FOSS4G conference in Denver Colorado, the North American community of free and open source geospatial software developers, users, and advocates are planning a regular annual event in North America. The […]
President Obama in his State of the Union speech specifically called out infrastructure as requiring significant investment. He said that “our infrastructure used to be the best”, and mentioned countries such as Russia, China, South […]
The impact of hydraulic fracturing on water quality in the US is getting a lot of attention, most recently from the EPA nationally and specifically in Wyoming. Last year the Wilderness Society surveyed the fracturing […]