The National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) is intended to be a comprehensive digital map of all underground pipes and cables owned and operated by 650 asset owners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. When deployed […]
A remarkable initiative within the Federal government in Canada to improve mapping of Federally regulated underground infrastructure and infrastructure on Federal lands was presented at the Ontario Regional Common Ground Alliance (ORCGA) 2020 Symposium in […]
At the SDI Summit in Quebec City Gordon Plunkett offered an interesting perspective on the penetration of open spatial data infrastructure (SDI) at the municipal level in Canada. Local governments are traditionally responsible for local […]
This is a readable version of a video that I submitted to the EthicalGEO site. Without accurate maps of where underground infrastructure is located, every construction project has the potential to become a disaster site. […]
The Critical Infrastructure Information Act of 2002 of the U.S. Congress provides a mechanism for severely restricting access to proprietary critical infrastructure information voluntarily shared by network operators with the federal government. It prevents consumers […]
A number of years ago an initiative was funded under the ARRA economic stimulus package to initiate what was then called LiDAR for the Nation. This has resulted in a USGS initiative called 3D Elevation […]
The Ordnance Survey has just released OS Open Zoomstack for public feedback. OS Open Zoomstack is very impressive because it is a vector basemap optimized for different scales – from a national overview to street […]
As part of the Prime Minister’s London Tech Week roundtable, the UK Government has announced that key parts of the OS MasterMap will be made openly available for the public and businesses to use. OS […]