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.

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Open Government Directive

13 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

One of the very important things that happened just before the Christmas holiday break was that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget issued the Open Government Directive (OGD), which requires all heads […]

The Antarctic and Global Climate Change

13 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Unlike the Arctic where the recent trend in arctic sea ice extent is unmistakable, in the Antarctic the trend has not been clear. For example, there has been evidence of increased sea ice extent, less […]

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Interactive 3D Models on an iPhone

13 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

I just came across an article that discusses how to publish interactive 3D models of machines and equipment to a variety of output devices such as Microsoft Word or the iPhone. The idea is that […]

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Forrester Projects Worldwide Software Spending Growing by 9.7% in 2010

13 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

According to InformationWeek, Forrester,in a report entitled US And Global IT Market Outlook: Q4 2009, is forecasting that global spending on IT hardware and software will grow 8.1% in 2010, after a decline of 8.9 […]

Custom MapGuide-based Tools for Visualizing FDO Data

12 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Jackie Ng pointed me to a fascinating session at Autodesk University in December and available online given by Clayton Hotson on the internals of MapGuide and how to visualize data from any FDO supported data […]

500+ km/hr Trains

12 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

In response to the comment from David Jonglez, I did a little research on high speed trains. Here’s a cool video of a French TGV reaching 574.8 km/hr. I love the French engineer rolling up […]

400 km/hr Train in China

11 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

It is reported that the new high speed train between Wuhan and Guangzhou on a dedicated 968-kilometer line has reached up to 394 kilometers per hour. The travel time from Wuhan to Guangzhou has been […]

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Using Green Building XML (gbXML) for Sustainable Building Design

11 January 2010 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk and the Green Building XML (gbXML) Advisory Board are presenting a free webcast titled “Using Green Building XML (gbXML) for Sustainable Building Design” on January 21, 2010 at 10:00 to 11:00 am PST. The […]