At the INSPIRE conference in Florence, Volker Walter presented the results of a EuroSDR Survey focussed on 3D data management in European national mapping (NMCAs) and cadastral agencies. 32 organizations were surveyed. 10 NMCAs 8 […]
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 […]
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 […]