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Aging Infrastructure: Quebec Overpass Collapse

10 September 2007 Geoff Zeiss

To give you an example of what can happen with aging infrastructure, on September 30, 2006 an overpass in Laval, Quebec, Canada collapsed killing 5 people. As you might expect this caused near panic in […]

MapGuide Open Source 1.2 Released

7 September 2007 Geoff Zeiss

The OSGEO has announced that MapGuide Open Source 1.2 has been released. You can check the OSGEO Announcement for what’s new in MapGuide Open Source 1.2.

Worldwide Challenges Facing the Construction Industry

5 September 2007 Geoff Zeiss

There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges […]

Project Freewheel

15 August 2007 Geoff Zeiss

There are some pretty interesting things on the Autodesk Labs site that are worth checking out. One thing you may find pretty interesting is Freewheel , which allows you to look at 2D and 3D […]

Open Source Geospatial Conference – FOSS4G

1 August 2007 Geoff Zeiss

FOSS4G , which is the annual world-wide free and open source geospatial conference, will be occurring Sep 24 to 27 in Victoria BC Canada. Preliminary indications Geotips report that 450 have already registered, and based […]

GeoWeb 2007 – Creating Web 2.0 Applications on an Open Source Platform

27 July 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Niel Niemiec, Paul Spencer, Dave McIlhagga and I delivered a workshop at Geoweb 2007 in Vancouver that introduced participants to developing Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform including MapGuide Open Source, FDO, and […]

The Value of Data

26 June 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Recently I had the opportunity to visit a very interesting company, iMapData, which is now part of ChoicePoint. These folks started out in the late 90’s doing market studies for blue chip commercial organizations. After […]

NXTcomm – Telecom is back

24 June 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I had the opportunity to drop by the NXTcomm conference in Chicago on my way to Washington from San Francisco and it was worth it. I have not seen so much energy around telecom since […]

ISDE5 International Symposium on Digital Earth – Doug Engelbart

7 June 2007 Geoff Zeiss

Doug Engelbart gave one of the keynotes at ISDE5. Doug is originally from Oregon but has been in the Bay area most of his working life. In 2000 he was awarded the National Medal of […]

ISDE5 International Symposium on Digital Earth – Geospatial Technology and the Sustainable Economy

7 June 2007 Geoff Zeiss

I have been able to attend and present at the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth at the University of California Berkeley. For those of you not familiar with Digital Earth, it’s a concept, popularized […]

GeoTec 2007 – MapGuide Open Source Wins Geospatial Innovator Award

30 May 2007 Geoff Zeiss

At GeoTec 2007 in Calgary Alberta GeoTec Media announced the winners of its inaugural Geospatial Leadership Awards . This is a new awards program that was “created to identify and recognize individuals and organizations for […]

California Public Records Act (CPRA) and Free Spatial Data

29 May 2007 Geoff Zeiss

In the US digital spatial data collected at taxpayer expense is available from the Federal government at no cost. The best known example is the TIGER/Line (R) files, which comprise a digital database of geographic […]