Earlier this year I was invited to give a keynote at the South Africa Surveying and Mapping Indaba. PositionIT has just published the paper Geospatial Information Technology Enables Vertical Industry Solutions based on my keynote. […]
Under terms of state law AB 2514, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is instructed to adopt an energy storage procurement target. The CPUC is expected to vote today on mandated energy storage procurement targets […]
According to a recent IEA report Redrawing the Energy-Climate Map, global energy-related CO2 emissions increased by 1.4% to reach a historic high of 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2012. China China made the largest contribution to […]
GeoJSON is becoming prevalent. I just came across an online site OGRE for converting a variety of vector formats to GeoJSON and vice versa. Formats supported include GeoJSON .json or .geojson ESRI Shapefile .shp, .dbf, […]
I just saw an announcement from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly for having achieved a new world record for efficiency of 44.7% (measured at a […]
GoGeomatics hosted one of their monthly social events in Halifax recently that coincided well with the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia (GANS) monthly event that was held at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History. […]
Geospatial information is a cross-cutting requirement critical to many different domains. Therefore the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has entered into alliances with standards organizations in many different sectors from buildings to transportation to utilities and […]
This time of year there is no shortage of magazines and web sites devoting space to articles on hockey. There are currently several season previews available that provide predictions on who will win the Stanley […]