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.

Call for presentations for inaugural OGC Academic Summit 2014 issued by Open Geospatial Consortium

3 July 2014 Geoff Zeiss

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has issued a call for presentations at the inaugural OGC Academic Summit 2014 to be held 15-16 September 2014 at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Presentations should be […]

NASA’s first dedicated satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide launched

2 July 2014 Geoff Zeiss

July 2, 2014 at 2:56 AM the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), NASA’s first dedicated Earth remote sensing satellite to study atmospheric carbon dioxide from Space. was launched on a Delta rocket. OCO-2 will be collecting […]

Open standards-based foundation for integrating BIM, geospatial and smart meters for urban energy performance optimization

1 July 2014 Geoff Zeiss

The European Union has set itself aggressive goals to reduce GHG emissions by 20%, increase renewables share of energy generation to 20%, and to reduce energy consumption by 20% by 2020. The EU seems to […]

India’s Prime Minister affirms importance of GIS

30 June 2014 Geoff Zeiss

“GIS (Geographic Information Systems) has applications in urban planning and watershed development. Space imagery helps in land management, coastal management. It is an invaluable asset in disaster management.” said Prime Minister Modi on the occasion […]

Joint INSPIRE and Geospatial World Forum Conference announced for 24-29 May 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal

28 June 2014 Geoff Zeiss

INSPIRE is based on the infrastructures for spatial information established and operated by the 27 Member States of the European Union. The Directive addresses 34 spatial data themes needed for environmental applications, with key components […]

Public-private infrastructure industry leaders present plan to resuscitate U.S. infrastructure

27 June 2014 Geoff Zeiss

The state of U.S. public infrastructure was given a cumulative grade point average of D+ (poor) by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in its 2013 infrastructure scorecard. A grade of D is defined […]

Dutch One-Call system for underground utilities based on INSPIRE-US (utility services) standard

26 June 2014 Geoff Zeiss

I have blogged numerous times about the challenge of accurately geolocating underground utilities.For example, I blogged about the estimated ROI for investment in improving the geolocation and other information about underground utilities and the remarkable […]

Geospatial contributed €69.3-million directly to the Irish economy in 2012

25 June 2014 Geoff Zeiss

A report commissioned by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and carried out by Indecon International Economic Consultants estimates that the geospatial information industry directly contributed €69.3-million (Gross Added Value) to the Irish economy in 2012. […]