Underground utility damage during construction is a major safety problem and drag on economies in many countries. The technologies that are currently considered best practices for detecting underground utilities have been used for decades and […]
A number of years ago an initiative was funded under the ARRA economic stimulus package to initiate what was then called LiDAR for the Nation. This has resulted in a USGS initiative called 3D Elevation […]
There is a general consensus that the development of BIM in Canada lags many other developed countries around the globe. This is partly due to little encouragement from government procurement at the federal and provincial […]
At SPAR 2013Ron Singh, Engineering Automation Manager/Chief of Surveys, Oregon Department of Transportation (DoT) made a startling proposal that would stand the traditional highway construction process on its head by making the post-construction as-built survey […]
At the the Year in Infrastructure conference in London the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) won the annual Be Inspired Award for Innovation in Government. Comprising only 700 square kilometers for the entire nation, land is […]
Singapore, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany and Malaysia are on the leading edge of creating and maintaining 3D cadastres for their respective countries. A 3D cadastre is in the cards for Singapore for several reasions; Land developers […]
At the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam two years ago, Jantien Stoter of the Delft Univeristy of Technology and an advisor to Geonovum, gave an overview of the work on a Dutch 3D standard, which […]
One of the new generation of geospatial-related conferences that I have attended for two years now is Location Intelligence for Enterprise USA. It is not a traditional GIS conference but includes talks about vertical business […]