At the INSPIRE conference in Florence, Ewa Klien, Joachim Rix and Didier Vancutsen gave an overview of an interesting EU project called Plan4business. Plan4business is designed to address the challenges faced by urban and […]
At the INSPIRE conference in Florence, Volker Walter presented the results of a EuroSDR Survey focussed on 3D data management in European national mapping (NMCAs) and cadastral agencies. 32 organizations were surveyed. 10 NMCAs 8 […]
I have blogged numerous times about the challenge of accurately geolocating underground utilties. Most recently I blogged about the estimated ROI for investment in improving the geolocation and other information about underground utilities and the […]
Yesterday at the INSPIRE conference, Federico Prandi gave a presentation about a fascinating open source project called i-SCOPE that involves developing 3D urban models that can be used to provide interactive smart services. The concept […]
The INSPIRE Data Specifications Annex III contains use cases encodings and a data model for Buildings. The devlopment of this schema was strongly influenced by CityGML, an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard developed initially in […]
Over the past five years the processes and technologies of building information modeling (BIM) have been transforming the construction industry. First architects and to a lesser extent engineers, and now increasingly contractors are adopting BIM […]
At the HxGN conference in Las Vegas today, there were some very interesting new technologies. Juergen Dold, President of Hexagon Geosystems, showed some images from a recent project in Zurich West, where the Zurich suburb […]
At the HxGN conference in Las Vegas today, there were some very interesting new technologies. Juergen Dold, President of Hexagon Geosystems, announced a relationship between Leica Geosystems and Aibotix, a company that produces a hexacopter […]