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.

Google Earth Engine to Provide Public Access to Earth Observation Data

6 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

I ran into Matt Ball of Vector1Media last night in Waltham where Autodesk is hosting an event and he pointed me to an interview he has done recently with Rebecca Moore of Google about the […]

Sketchbook Pro for iPad

6 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Apple has sold 300,000 iPads on the first day of sales, somewhat better than the 270,000 iPhones sold on its first day in 2007. Apple also said that 1 […]

Project Butterfly Integrates CAD Drawings with Google Maps and GDAL Imagery Over the Web

6 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

I blogged previously about an Autodesk Labs project called Project Butterfly that allows you to edit AutoCAD drawings over the Web using a Web browser. This week a new version of Project Butterfly has been […]

GPS, GIS and Surveying

6 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

There is a discussion going on across the country about who can legally use a GPS to determine the location of man-made objects. For example, at the moment there is a bill before the New […]

AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 Release

5 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 has been released worldwide. Some of the important new capabilities include Point Clouds Import LiDAR data in LAS and ASCII file formats Stylize point data Filter point data Snap to points […]

Ed Roberts Inventor of the Altair 8800 Dies

3 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Edward Roberts was the inventor in 1974 of the Altair 8800, the first commercially successful microcomputer. His firm was called MITS and was based in Albuquerque. The Altair used a 2 MHz Intel 8080 CPU and […]

Access to Spatial Data

Ordnance Survey OpenData

3 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Ordnance Survey OpenData is indeed open, in the many senses of the word. The web site is up, there’s a lot of free data and the license is nonrestrictive. You are free to: copy, distribute, […]

Novell Owns Unix

3 April 2010 Geoff Zeiss

After a court case starting in 2004 between SCO and Novell, a jury in Utah decided that Novell owns the rights to the Unix operating system. This should help resolve the open court case between […]