An Urban Planning Domain Working Group (DWG) has been chartered to define the role for Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards within the urban planning discipline. The DWG offers an open forum for the discussion and […]
Improving process efficiency (also here, here, here and here) is a major challenge for the utility industry. Geospatial technology is a key technology that helps utilities improve the efficiency of their business processes (such as designing-constructing-maintaining and operating their […]
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 […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year the GeoBuild track, which was very well attended, included 15 presentations followed by a panel discussion. The presentations covered a broad range of topics, but all […]
At Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year Leif Granhom, Senior Vice President at Tekla Finland gave an insightful presentation about the integration of building information modeling (BIM) and geospatial information. An important part of […]
GEO Business 2014 is the newest major geospatial event in the UK. And it is unique in being the result of a collaboration between the British geographic information organization Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and three […]
Locating underground infrastructure in Bahrain Bahrain is one of the few places in the world which attempts to maintain the location of all underground infrastructure in a single database. As I blogged in 2009, the […]
Recently I posted an article about mapping underground utility infrastructure in cities and regions around the world. The most recent notable efforts in the regard are Las Vegas, which is creating a 3D model of […]