At this year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, Peter Trebilcock of Balfour Beatty gave an overview of Balfour Beatty’s extensive BIM experience. Balfour Beatty has 56 live BIM projects across […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]