The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is inviting interested parties to a Smart Grid Location Standards Meeting to be held on March 20 from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the OGC Technical Committee Meeting in Austin, Texas, USA. […]
Just came across a fascinating documentary on urbanization, which in the last 200 years since the industrial revolution has been occurring at an exponential rate and represents the largest impact humans have had on the […]
An interesting analysis of job creation by the “App Economy” has been conducted for TechNet by Dr.Michael Mandel of South Mountain Economics LLC. This includes employment at pure App startups; large companies such as Electronic […]
The OSGeo Conference Committee is happy to announce the call for hosting the FOSS4G 2013 event. The 2013 FOSS4G RFP is available now. Highlights: * 2013 is a “Europe year” * Like last year, using […]
The U.S. Administration has proposed a budget of $8.344 billion for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for FY 2013, $105 million below the EPA’s budget for FY 2012. National Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas […]
In 2010 ten sites were given apporval for new nuclear power plants in the UK. Since then the UK Government has reduced the number to eight (Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, […]
The shale-gas industry and hydraulic fracturing were explicitly exempted from Federal environmental oversight in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. I blogged about a recent EPA study in Wyoming that suggested shale-gas exploitation and specifically […]
Steve Coast has just unveiled a project he has been working on last month called open geocoder. A geocoder finds geographic coordinates by matching addresses and other string data. He sees a lacuna in the […]