Earlier this year I was invited to give a keynote at the South Africa Surveying and Mapping Indaba. PositionIT has just published the paper Geospatial Information Technology Enables Vertical Industry Solutions based on my keynote. […]
At FOSS4G in Nottingham I was looking forward to hearing Peter Smart and Rob Hawkes talk about their ViziCities project which is intended to bring real world cities to life using open, big-data and open […]
The 2013 BIM Report by construction industry marketing consultancy Competitive Advantage presents research on the rate of implementation, the types of BIM objects required and the support expected from manufacturers in the UK. The report […]
The August edition of Geospatial World Magazine is focussed on the theme of the integration of geopatial and building information modeling (BIM) in both its vertical and horizontal (BIM for Infrastructure) forms. Together the articles […]
At the ESRI User Conference Eric Wittner, a 3D Technology Evangelist, at ESRI presented some Geodesign projects that involve 3D that ESRI has worked on. This was very interesting because it provides a practical perspective […]
According to Jack Dangermond who led the plenary sessions on the first day, this year in San Diego 12000 people from 130 countries were in San Diego for the 33rd Esri International User Conference. I […]
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 […]
Horizontal BIM, heavy BIM, VDC, civil information modeling, BIM on its side, or BIM for infrastructure are terms used in the construction industry for the application of model-based technologies and processes to non-building projects. This […]