A National Broadband Plan was mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act a year ago. After an open consultation process, the Executive Summary of the Plan was released today. The full Plan will be […]
I am quite amazed at how rapidly OSGEO continues to grow. The total number of projects is now over 20, eight of which are in incubation. Among the major project additions are PostGIS, GeoServer and […]
NASA has detected the second tropical storm, called 90Q, in the South Atlantic in recorded history about 325 miles east of Puerto Alegre, Brazil. The first tropical cyclone ever seen in recorded history in the […]
The Conference Board of Canada estimates that the global market for water and wastewater is in excess of $450 billion (2008), with annual growth of 8% to 15%. Water consumption in Canada is excessive because […]
Kenneth Skovhede has announced the release of MapGuide Maestro 2.0 after over a year of development. Maestro is an open source MapGuide authoring tool. Jason Birch has been using the pre-release for several months and […]
I have blogged on several occasions about the American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) infrastructure Report Card which accesses 15 types of infrastructure. Since the last ASCE Report Card in 2005, the grades have not […]
The FCC will announce its National Broadband Plan (NBP) next week. The objective of the NBP is to provide universal broadband access as well as encourage governments and industry to use broadband in health care, […]
Autodesk has announced that starting this month, software download will replace CDs and DVDs as the default method of delivering software upgrades to most subscription customers worldwide. If you would prefer DVDs or CDs, you […]