The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved the Augmented Reality Markup Language 2.0 Interface Standard (ARML 2.0). ARML 2.0 provides a free and open, non-proprietary encoding that content providers can use to specify the location […]
Energy performance modeling for buildings is a new field, but one that is getting a lot of interest under the impetus of government mandates and incentives. It’s so new that there is no set of […]
February 26, 2015 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules to protect net neutrality. This is in response to a court decision in April 2010, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
INSPIRE-Geospatial World Forum 2015, a joint conference organized by the European Commission and Geospatial Media and Communications, has made available its full conference program. Almost 500 presentations are scheduled on topics including building information modelling […]
A very exciting project has been proposed at LocationTech (it’s in the Project Proposal Phase as defined in the Eclipse Development Process). Simply put, GeoWave intends to do for “big data” databases (initially Apache Accumulo) […]
Dr Anne Kemp, Director and Fellow, Atkins, Vice-Chair of BuildingSmart, UK, Chair of ICE BIM Action Group, and Chair of BIM4Infrastructure UK, has published very thought-provoking insights into how the convergence of BIM and geospatial […]
In general the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for commercial purposes is illegal in the U.S. But in the last few months the Federal Aviation Administration has issued grants of exemption to six companies […]
One of the highlights of this this year’s RICS BIM Conference in London was the keynote presentation Delivery of Level 2 BIM by Terry Stocks, Deputy Head of Estates Department, Ministry of Justice and Delivery […]