Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

Speaker lineup for the first Canadian Underground Forum

8 April 2021 Geoff Zeiss

Without accurate maps of underground infrastructure, every construction project runs a significant risk of schedule and budget overruns and causing injuries and fatalities to workers and the public. Underground utility damage also represents a drag […]

Announcement – Speakers for the Canadian Underground Forum (CUF): Advances in locating and mapping underground infrastructure event at GeoIgnite April 29/30

7 April 2021 Geoff Zeiss | 4m-analytics

Digital logistics management improves labour productivity on construction projects

30 March 2021 Geoff Zeiss

Digital logistics management is standard practice in manufacturing and is best know for enabling just in time delivery (JIT). Now a company in Scandinavia has applied digital logistics management to construction. Experience in applying this […]

Modern reality capture technology efficiently provides accurate as-builts for underground utilities

23 March 2021 Geoff Zeiss

Increasingly modern reality capture technology is being applied to mapping underground infrastructure. There are two use cases where LiDAR scanning or photogrammetry can be applied two underground infrastructure. The first is when new utility infrastructure […]

Faster and safer mapping underground infrastructure using magnetometers mounted on a drone

15 March 2021 Geoff Zeiss

Technologies such as ground penetrating radar (GPR) or acoustic locating for detecting underground utilities involve directing some type of signal, electromagnetic or acoustic, into the ground and measuring the reflection off underground objects. A major […]

Announcement – Canadian Underground Forum (CUF): Advances in locating and mapping underground infrastructure event launches at GeoIgnite this April

11 March 2021 Geoff Zeiss | Canada

Join Canadian leaders at GeoIgnite 2021 for the inaugural Canadian Underground Forum (CUF) that will explore issues and technologies around mapping infrastructure underground Without accurate maps of underground infrastructure, every construction project runs a significant […]

Making Landsat data free and open generated billions of dollars of economic benefits

10 March 2021 Geoff Zeiss

Open data has been gathering momentum among governments. First enunciated in the United States, the principle that citizens should not be required to pay twice for government data, free and open access to government geospatial […]

Standards for underground location quality are rapidly evolving

24 February 2021 Geoff Zeiss

In the last two years quality standards for location quality of underground infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia have been revised or augmented. This reflects the accelerating development of new technologies and evolution […]