At the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, as part of a ministerial panel discussion on government’s role in evolving geospatial policy for national and regional development, Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Canada Centre for […]
At the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam two years ago, Jantien Stoter of the Delft Univeristy of Technology and an advisor to Geonovum, gave an overview of the work on a Dutch 3D standard, which […]
Since Google Earth’s release in June 2005, national mapping agencies (NMCAs) and other government organizations involved with geospatial data and technology have been reassessing their role. At the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) in Amsterdam two […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium’s draft GeoPackage (GPKG) standard is an open, app-independent, platform-independent, portable, interoperable, self-describing data container and API. This standard is intended to support multiple mapping and geospatial applications such as fixed product […]
In August 2004, the NIST released a study that attempted to identify and estimate the efficiency losses in the U.S. capital facilities industry resulting from inadequate interoperability among computer-aided design, engineering, and software systems. This […]
I have blogged frequently about the world-wide trend toward free and open access to government spatial data. In general this has meant that instead of users paying for access to spatial data, the government pays […]
I blogged previously about a court case involving Orange County in California about open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA). After trying to obtain Orange County’s parcel file at the […]
I have always been impressed with the appoach to sharing spatial data in the State of Victoria in Australia. In 2008 I heard a presentation by Jose Diacono and Danny Broadbent who were associated with […]