Directions Magazine is hosting a webinar about how the City of Vancouver has implemented an integrated solution focusing on urban planning and infrastructure management. Jonathan Mark, Senior Manager GIS and CADD Services and Dan […]
The Government of Canada has announced its Open Government Action Plan. The fundamental principle is the issuing of a government-wide directive that will make government information and data available to the public by default. The […]
The population of the urban agglomeration of the NCT Delhi, estimated to be 22 million, now exceeds that of Mumbai. To help manage infrastructure in this rapidly growing megacity, in March 2011, the Assembly of […]
I’ve been following the topic of open data for quite a few years worldwide at the national level in Australia, Japan, Indonesia, UK, South Africa, Canada, US, and other countries. I’ve also followed the long […]
Crowdsourced geospatial landbase data is competitive in many parts of the world with government or commercial geospatial data. The best known crowdsourced data source is OpenStreetMap. To date OpenStreetMap data has been licenced under Creative […]
I blogged previously about a court case in 2009 involving Santa Clara County in California that was decided in favour of free and open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA). […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending staff into […]
One of the most important goals of utilities in this time of aging and shrinking workforces is improving the productivity of operations staff. Many utilities are finding that many tasks that used to require sending staff into […]