According to the Wall Street Journal a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Judge ruled that the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) ban on flying drones (UAVs) is not legally binding. The ruling follows a lawsuit in […]
According to Bloomberg AES Corp has begun selling utility-scale battery systems that can scale up to half a gigawatt (GW). The Advancion systems cost from $10 million to $500 million, depending on size, and will […]
At the NRECA TechAdvantage conference Dr. Comfort Manyame, GIS Manager at Mid-South Synergy Electric Coop, gave a very interesting presentation demonstrating how freely available geospatial data can be applied to proactively to reduce outages. Mid-South […]
How can we ensure that we have – or as students, that we are – the Canadian geomatics workforce and ‘geospatially-enabled society’ of tomorrow? How can we ensure that the Canadian Geomatics Sector communicates a […]
The Canadian geomatics community has been discussing and debating the importance of having a thriving and useful geomatics industry association. In the past the Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) has been both of those […]
In one year LocationTech has attracted key strategic members interested in taking advantage of the governance and intellectual property services including commercially friendly licensing that LocationTech/Eclipse provides. LocationTech members now include Actuate, Boundless, Google, IBM, […]
FOSS4G 2014 runs from Sept 8th-12th in Portland, Oregon this year. The conference brings to together developers and others in geospatial open source. This is an opportunity to participate in the rapidly growing open source […]
At this year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, Nick Bleukarn, of the Severn Partnership, described a “scan to BIM” project sponsored by RICS to create a BIM model for the […]