The Internet is a set of open, global standards and perhaps the chief reason for its success is that it is not dominated by any one nation, company or special interest group. The Internet is […]
At the GITA Pacific Northwest Annual Conference in Mukilteo, Washington, Greg Babinski, Finance Manager for the King County GIS Center (KCGIS), gave an overview of benefit-cost analysis of the financial value add of GIS. The […]
I have blogged on previous occasions about the impact of distributed generation and renewable sources of electric power on the traditonal business model of electirc power utilities. In this context the recently released Annual Stakeholder […]
One of the key enabling technologies introduced in the early days of AM/FM/GIS systems was long transactions, also known as data versioning. Long transactions make it possible to store spatial design data in the same […]
The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) includes 53 space agencies which together operate 286 Earth observation devices. One of the things that is changing rapidly is the resolution of these satellites. Geoeye-1 which was […]
I remember visiting a company in the business of digital aerial image acquisition, orthophotography, and stereo imagery. Using the stereo imagery they extracted 3D buildings and other objects to build 3D city models. To do […]
Power plants are the largest source of emissions in the United States accounting for one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions. The United States as no binding emissions goals like the EU does, and has […]
The UK Government has mandated BIM on all Government construction projects regardless of size by 2016. The Institution of Structural Engineers (IST) has released the results of a survey of its 900 members. Some of […]