A really interesting proposal prepared by Lisa Campbell, Autodesk, Dr. John Curlander, Microsoft, Steven R. Hagan, ORACLE, Michael T. Jones, Google, and Gen. Jack Pellicci, U.S. Army (Ret.), Intergraph, entitled A Proposal for Reinvigorating the American Economy Through Investment in the US National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) has just been released. The idea is, as part of the economic stimulus package that Washington is working on, to include funding for geospatial data collection including imagery, terrain, parcels, ecosystem, and 3D urban structure and infrastructure data and processing initiatives designed to support NSDI development, as well as direct funding to initiate a public/private partnership efforts to design and deploy a nationally-scalable, interoperable, secure, and reliable NSDI including urban design, infrastructure and modeling data.
Geoff Zeiss
Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.
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