Checking regulatory compliance for building permitting remains a tedious, time-consuming and costly process. While the critical importance of timely, accurate, and uniform code review has been an important goal of regulatory agencies for some time […]
At the SPAR International conference Kevin Gilson, Director of the Design Visualization group at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) gave an insightful presentation on integrated 3D modeling and visualization for large transportation projects with some examples from […]
Increasing urbanisation, pressure on existing infrastructure, push for productivity in construction sector and environmental concerns are driving the convergence of geospatial, 3D and information modeling technologies. Over the next two decades, construction of buildings and […]
Earlier this year I was invited to give a keynote at the South Africa Surveying and Mapping Indaba. PositionIT has just published the paper Geospatial Information Technology Enables Vertical Industry Solutions based on my keynote. […]
Geospatial information is a cross-cutting requirement critical to many different domains. Therefore the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has entered into alliances with standards organizations in many different sectors from buildings to transportation to utilities and […]
At FOSS4G in Nottingham I was looking forward to hearing Peter Smart and Rob Hawkes talk about their ViziCities project which is intended to bring real world cities to life using open, big-data and open […]
At the AGI Geocommunity Conference Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at The Bartlett, University College London, gave a fascinating introduction to the topic of smart cities and how […]
According to Jack Dangermond who led the plenary sessions on the first day, this year in San Diego 12000 people from 130 countries were in San Diego for the 33rd Esri International User Conference. I […]