Between the Poles – The Geoff Zeiss Archives

I’ve just spent the last two days at the annual AGI conference in Stratford-upon-Avon.  The last time I attended AGI was 2004 in London.  The conference chair this year is Steven Feldman, who has made […]

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A municipality in New Zealand called North Shore City has made its water, waste water and storm water network infrastructure available on the web.  Not only is the location of the underground infrastructure accessible, but […]

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Autodesk and Camptocamp have created this LiveCD to ease your first steps with MapGuide Open Source. When you boot your computer with this CD you get a working MapGuide Open Source server, complete with the […]

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Who said geography can’t be fun ?  Watch Where the Hell is Matt ? on YouTube.

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The MapGuide Open Source project team has announced that MapGuide Open Source 2.0.2 is available. MGOS 2.0.2 supports Firefox 3, bug fixes, rendering fixes and updated FDO DLLs. For the complete list please see the […]

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Last week I was in Australia and had a chance to touch base with Zac Spitzer , who is the Solution Architect with Ennoble Consultancy and who was responsible for implementing the architectural design pattern […]

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Monday evening I am flying to the UK where I will be giving a talk at AGI GeoCommunity ’08.  This year AGI is being held in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace and resting place of one of […]

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Oracle Open World (OOW) is happening this week in San Francisco.  Maybe a better way to put it is that OOW is happening to San Francisco this week.  OOW is ubiquitous.  Rumour has it that […]

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For the first time, Autodesk has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, which reflects the effort that Autodesk has devoted to sustainability. The Dow Jones assesses more than 600 applications from North America […]

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Safe Software has announced today that FME supports full read and write capability for AutoCAD Map 3D object data.  Object data is used to associate properties with graphical entities in an AutoCAD DWG file.  Safe’s […]

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Autodesk has just released it’s sustainability report, which is designed to encourage the develop of a community of innovators in the area of sustainability. This report describes how 3D digital modeling technology enables designers to […]

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Autodesk, Inc today announced that it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of 3D Geo GmbH, a maker of intelligent 3D urban modeling software including LandXplorer products .   The 3D Geo […]

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The uptake of Feature Data Object (FDO) technology is quite astounding.   In addition to the FDO Data Providers developed by Autodesk, there is an increasing number developed by third party open source developers, as […]

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One of the most fascinating presentations at GITA was delivered by Gary Stoneham of the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) of the Government of Victoria. Gary is an economist who focuses on creating new […]

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I have been at GITA Australia this week, with about 300 other people.  There have been some absolutely outstanding presentations at this conference.  Among them is a presentation by Jose Diacono and Danny Broadbent who […]

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Earlier this year, GITA hosted an Emergency Response Symposium (ERS), organized by Talbot Brooks of Delta State University, as part of GITA’s 2008 annual conference.  Doug Eberhard, Tim Case, Dan Campbell, and I were part […]

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One of the advantages of travelling as much as I do, is that I have a high probability of meeting interesting people who are doing very innovative things.  I’m currently in Australia to attend next […]

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Autodesk announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of the 3D Geo GmbH. 3D Geo is a leading provider of geo visualization and software to create, analyze, manage […]

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