At the SPAR International Conference in Colorado Springs this morning Magnus Rönnäng, Technical Expert in Virtual Manufacturing at Volvo Car Group gave a fascinating presentation on how Volvo has transformed the modeling of their automobile […]
Increasing urbanisation, pressure on existing infrastructure, push for productivity in construction sector and environmental concerns are driving the convergence of geospatial, 3D and information modeling technologies. Over the next two decades, construction of buildings and […]
At this year’s Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) BIM National Conference 2014, Nick Bleukarn, of the Severn Partnership, described a “scan to BIM” project sponsored by RICS to create a BIM model for the […]
Indoor mapping is already supported by Google and Bing. Micello is in the business of creating indoor maps of major venues around the world. Most of the activity seems to be focussed on consumers and […]
Markets and Markets has released a report that analyzes the LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) market by product types (airborne, mobile, terrestrial and short range) and applications (government, civil engineering, military/defence/aerospace, corridor mapping, topographic surveying, […]
At the Middle East Geospatial Forum in Dubai, Richard Humphrey, Senior Director at Autodesk, gave a vision of the future entitled The Future of Geo-enabled Design that captures at a high level where the convergence […]
Every once in a while a project comes along that is so worthwhile, that you wonder why it hadn’t been done years ago. CyArk uses 3D-laser scanning and other reality-capture technologies to create a 3D-digital […]
Geospatial information is a cross-cutting requirement critical to many different domains. Therefore the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has entered into alliances with standards organizations in many different sectors from buildings to transportation to utilities and […]