Today marks the launch of LocationTech, a community of open source projects and consortium of member companies. LocationTech is designed to help broaden adoption of commercial location aware technologies. It is vendor neutral, open to […]
Stephen Berberich, President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Independent System Operator (CaISO), gave one of the keynotes at Distributech 2013 in which he provided insight into what 33% renewables will likely mean for […]
For many years, organizations have struggled with using geospatial data effectively. This is a common problem faced by government agencies, defense and intelligence communities, utility and communications companies, and private businesses. The intelligence in data […]
Unlike Canadian surveyors, for example, GIS professionals in Canada are not pressed by law to obtain certification. This fact has led to one of the more common questions in Geomatics circles: is a GIS certification […]
If there was one consistent message at Distributech this year, it was that smart grid has become mainstream – every utilty is doing something related to smart grid. A very good example of some the […]
In 2000, I was just finishing a two year stint living in Belgium working on modeling downstream facilities. Yes, we used close-range photogrammetry. Really dull technical work, but we succeeded in projects across Europe (Italy, […]
Projections and Coordinate Systems for GIS: A new perspective on old ideas. (Or, GIS Professionals Should Consider That A Lot Of Our Constants Are, Increasingly, Not So Constant.) “I am constant as the northern star, Of […]
In the medical profession we have reference standards for things like blood cholesterol level, triglyseride, blood pressure, and heart rate that define what is normal or acceptable and allow us identify extreme values that may […]