Bill 150 2009 a bill to enact the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009 and to build a green economy, was tabled at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on February 23, 2009. It is estimated that […]
I just came across a company called Green Ocean Energy Ltd that has developed a device called Ocean Treader. Conceptually it is pretty simple. There’s a central buoy-like device with two mechanically connected pontoons. The […]
Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and I gave a presentation at WAURISA earlier this week on the Evolution of Urban Modeling. Dan outlined the history of the Vancouver model and some the business drivers […]
This is something I meant to blog about last year, but somehow it didn’t make it. 3D printing does not refer to printing a 3D model on a piece of paper, which is what I […]
Most of the world’s vector spatial data is captured using CAD desktop applications, whether we are talking about engineering design data or traditional geospatial data. Over the past 20 or so years most of the […]
At GITA last week I ran into Steve Serra from Oracle who updated me on open source support for Oracle Spatial/Locator. He provided a site where open source products supporting Oracle Spatial are listed. The […]
WAURISA was kicked off by a very interesting presentation by Cy Smith, Oregon Geographic Information Officer (OGIO) and Past President of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC). He outlined the NSGIC strategic framework for […]
MSNBC and Moody’s have computed what they call an Adversity Index which attempts to measure the economic health of 381 metro areas and all 50 states and assign an economic health quotient, according to whether […]