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As-Built Backlogs and Capital Asset Reporting

20 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There is a very interesting blog by Michael Schlosser outlining the challenge of capital asset reporting when a municipality has a significant as-built backlog. In Canada PSAB 3150 and in the US GASB 34 requires […]

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End of an Era II: IBM Acquiring Sun ?

19 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There are articles in serious publications like the Wall Street Journal that IBM is in negotiations to acquire Sun. That will really change the landscape of IT and would involve merging two companies with dissimilar […]

Working while Windows Boots III: Linux Alternatives Splashtop, Latitude On, Hyperspace, Presto

19 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

As I blogged about last February, I often carry a second computer, an ASUS EEE PC 701 , so I can work while I wait for my Windows laptop to boot up. Some enterprising […]

OpenStreetMap Hits 100 000 Users

18 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

March 16th the 100 000th user registered on OpenStreetMap. Apparently, August 9th 2004 was the day that the first user registered the domain and started the project. As you can see from the accompanying graph, […]

Open Geospatial Consortium and Open Source

18 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There is a very interesting article in Geo:Geoconnexions International by Carl Reed, CTO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) , about the collaboration between the OGC and the open source community. If your background is […]

Autodesk Announces Vancouver as Third Digital Cities Pilot

18 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Autodesk has announced that Vancouver has been chosen as a pilot for its digital cities initiative, which focuses on applying digital 3D urban modeling technology to helping cities plan future development, increase the sustainability of […]

Open Source Geographic Coordinate Systems and Projections

13 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There are several coordinate system related projects at the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO)), including Proj4 A cartographic projections library originally written by Gerald Evenden then of the USGS. Proj4js A JavaScript library to transform […]

Making Sustainable Cities Real

12 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

There is an interesting article in Imaging Notes that discusses the evolution of sustainable cities as a government objective in the US starting with President Clinton establishing the President’s Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) in […]

GIS for the CAD User

12 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

From time to time I try to invite guest bloggers to give their take on things geospatial. For this blog I have been fortunate enough to have Justin Lokitz contribute his perspective. Justin is the […]

TED: Sixth Sense

11 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

This is from my friend Dan Shannon. You may be familiar with TED , which showcases new technology. This video demonstrates something that is really visionary, but entirely conceivable, and can be done for $350 […]

Infrastructure to Lead Recovery According to CIBC

11 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to a report by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) on Yahoo, governments are both stimulating the economy and investing in the future by spending on infrastructure. CIBC sees an opportunity for […]

Economic Stimulus: $7.2 billion for Broadband Out the Door by Oct 2010

11 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

According to NetworkWorld, several government agencies announced the timeline for broadband stimulus funding. The objective is to get $7.2 billion out the door by October 2010. NTIA sais that there will be three rounds, the […]

Is Microsoft Forcing Tom Tom to Violate the GPL or Switch ?

9 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

An article in LinuxInsider caught my attention, because it mentioned a comment by Jeremy Allison, a member of the Samba project, to the effect that Tom Tom may be violating the GPLv2 license agreement that […]

New Emblem for Recovery Projects

9 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

President Obama and Vice President Biden released the new emblem that will identify Recovery projects, projects funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). Given the amount of money that is funding the program, […]

US Economic Stimulus: $7.2 billion for Broadband Buildout

9 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

The highest penetration of broadband (subscribers per household) in the world is South Korea with something like 93 % penetration. In fact in Seoul I believe it exceeds 100%. If I remember, the US just […]

President Obama’s Proposed 2009 Budget: Focus on Sustainability and Technology

9 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

I have taken a quick glance at the Obama administration’s proposed budget for 2009 and it looks to be heavily focussed on sustainability and technology. Here’s a list of highlights I identified. Department of Energy […]

2D Geometric Constraints and Parametrics in AutoCAD 2010

8 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Once in a great while a new feature or technology comes along that promises to change dramatically how people work. One such is 2D Geometric Constraints and Parametrics which is included in AutoCAD 2010. Shaan Hurley has […]

Distributed Computing: RPC sustains, REST disrupts

7 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

One of the readers of this blog pointed me to a fascinating article by Steve Vinoski, a name I remember because he was a technical leader at Iona, one of the companies which committed very […]

Simplified MapGuide Build on Windows

7 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Jackie Ng has submitted three batch files that make it much easier to build MapGuide Open Source on Windows MgDevbuild.batToolsMaestrobuild.batInstallerbuild.bat He also provides very detailed instructions for setting up the MapGuide OS build on Windows. […]

NASA Kepler Launch Successful

7 March 2009 Geoff Zeiss

Last evening around 23:00 NASA successfully launched the Kepler telescope. Kepler was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a Delta II rocket. The Kepler telescope is designed to search our galaxy […]