Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

One of the most interesting presentations from a design and construction perspective was by Neil Gyte, Atkins Global, one of the world’s leading engineering and design consultancies, who talked about Atkins Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), […]

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I’ve been to several Map MIddle East conferences previously in Dubai and had always found many of the presentations worthwhile.  There are always good speakers including invariably Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey, who was […]

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I’ve been at Map Middle East in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.  Right outside my hotel on the Abu Dhabi corniche, I really didn’t pay attention to what looks like a rather tall palm tree, […]

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At the recent GITA conference I heard a presentation by Steven Collier of Milsoft on the smart-grid. He illutstrated the distinction between the grid as we know it and the smart-grid by drawing an analogy […]

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Last week the European Union (EU) Parliament passed legislation which includes measures to enable the deployment of smart meters for 80% of the EU population. The main objective of the legislation is to create a […]

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One of the really amazing sessions at GITA this year was an  emergency response panel on geospatial technology sharing among agencies in the federal government.  Organized by Talbot Brooks of Delta State University The panel […]

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The Obama Administration has announced plans for more than $3.3 billion in development grants for smart-grid technology and $615 million for smart-grid storage. Also announced were new guidelines for the ARRA smart-grid grants.  The grants […]

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President Obama has appointed Aneesh Chopra as federal CTO and Jeffrey Zients as chief performance officer (CPO).  CTO and CPO are new positions created by the Obama administration.  Annesh Chopra has been Virginia’s Secretary of […]

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Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Topobase 2010, which extends AutoCAD to support geospatial infrastructure management in addition to design. Topobase includes water, wastewater, gas and electric data models and applications as well as […]

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Blaine Leonard, of the Utah Department of Transportation and the President-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), gave the opening keynote at GITA 2009 today.  His talk focussed on the 2009 ASCE Scorecard […]

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I and probably many others were very surprised to hear today that Oracle intends to buy Sun Microsystems.  This means that Oracle is now a hardware (Sparc/Ultrasparc) and operating system (Solaris) company as well as […]

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Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk LandXplorer Server 2010.  LandXplorer Server allows 3D city models prepared using LandXplorer Studio Professional to be exposed over the Web to any client with a browser.  Users can […]

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A report by the “Global Forest Expert Panels” initiative, which is led by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) has been released.  It forecasts what the impact of global warming might be on the […]

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Autodesk University 2009 (AU 2009) will be held from December 1-4 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. If you are interested in speaking at AU 2009, you’re invited to submit a proposal […]

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Autodesk has announced that AutoCAD 2010 software will be available for free to members of the worldwide Student Engineering and Design Community.  The Student Community was created three years ago to help architecture, engineering and […]

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There’s an interesting article by Rob Colman in Green Business who chatted with Dan Campbell of the City of Vancouver and myself about digital cities and how  by enabling interoperability between architecture, engineering and construction design […]

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I was fortunate to be invited to present a keynote at the 18th Annual GIS/SIG Spatial/Digital Mapping Conference in Rochester, NY yesterday.  This was one of the most interesting regional conference I have attended recently. […]

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I came across a fascinating talk by Dan Reicher , now with Google but who was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from 1997-2001.  His […]

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