At the GSDI 13 conference in Quebec City, Serene Ho and Abbas Rajabifard from Australia delivered a paper on the benefits of a 3D land and property information system (3D-LPIS) to an increasingly urbanized society. […]
In 2007 I listened to an exceptional presentation at a Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference in Hobart, Tasmania given by Tim Barker and Neale Hooper, of the Queensland Treasury, part of the government of […]
Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Mapping Information Branch (MIB), Natural Resources Canada, gave an overview of the Canadian experience in developing a national spatial data infrastructure (SDI). He echoed the Minister of Natural Resource’s […]
At the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 in Québec City, Ed Parsons of Google argued in favour of web access to micro data including geospatial. Google’s goal is to organize the world’s information, of which geospatial […]
At the Global Geospatial Conference 2012 in Québec City, the Minister of Natural Resources of Canada, said that geomatics is strategic for economic development in Canada. Geomatics annually contributes $2.8 billion to the Canadian economy, […]
Airports are like cities. They have all the infrastructure that cities have plus some. Heathrow is the busiest airport in Europe with on average 181,000 passengers passing through it each day. Heathrow has 13 different […]
On the Autodesk Labs site, you can find a new free technology preview, Project Basejump, that enables AutoCAD Map 3D and AutoCAD Civil 3D users to access Microsoft Bing web mapping service (WMS) maps including […]
Some time ago I blogged about freely available government geospatial data in various parts of the world, but mentioned that in the Netherlands only some data was freely avaiilable. At the recent Geospatial World Forum […]