The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) has initiated a process to develop a new strategic plan for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) that includes a set of goals and objectives for the continued and […]
I blogged previously about a court case involving Orange County in California about open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA). After trying to obtain Orange County’s parcel file at the […]
One thing I am sure that almost anybody in geomatics would agree with is that major components of any geospatial projects is the data and, like most things in our society, tend to evolve over […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has releases a candidate OGC GeoPackage (GPKG) Standard or public commment. The GPKG Standards Working Group (SWG) will consider all submitted comments for a final draft of the GeoPackage Standard. […]
According to the Bangkok Post, the Thai Finance Ministry plans to spend 80 billion baht (US$2.5 billion) to set up a one MW solar PV farm in every village. There are nearly 75,000 villages in […]
Phoenix Aerial Systems has announced a UAV-mounted LiDAR platform weighing less than 10kg. The new LiDAR platform called the “Phoenix AL-2” combines UAV, LiDAR and GNSS technology and is designed asa micro-mapping solution. The Phoenix […]
A lot of planning goes into our summer road trips as we plot our routes, alternate routes and the occasional sight-seeing detour. The age of the passenger seat navigator, lost behind full sheet paper maps […]
In order to determine whether geomatics is the most appropriate term for this field it may be useful to review some history. In the mid-1980s the various sub-disciplines of what is now called geomatics, consisting […]