I have blogged numerous times about the challenge of accurately geolocating underground utilties. Most recently I blogged about the estimated ROI for investment in improving the geolocation and other information about underground utilities and the […]
The world is moving toward ubiquitous real-time automated monitoring of environmental parameters such as air quality and water level. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Observation Service (SOS) applicable to use cases in which sensor […]
Yesterday at the INSPIRE conference, Federico Prandi gave a presentation about a fascinating open source project called i-SCOPE that involves developing 3D urban models that can be used to provide interactive smart services. The concept […]
Last night GoGeomatics launched the first monthly networking event in Halifax. All told we counted 25-26 people at the event. We will be doing this once a month and we hope if you missed this […]
The INSPIRE Data Specifications Annex III contains use cases encodings and a data model for Buildings. The devlopment of this schema was strongly influenced by CityGML, an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard developed initially in […]
G8 leaders (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union) recently signed a charter on open data. The Open Data Charter sets out 5 strategic principles that all G8 […]
At the INSPIRE conference in Florence, Maria Betti, Director of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability gave an overview of where the INSPIRE initiative is today. The original INSPIRE Directive was issued Mar 14, .2007, […]
G8 leaders (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States, and the European Union) have recently signed a charter on open data. The Open Data Charter sets out 5 strategic principles that all […]