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Interoperability using Tightly and Loosely Coupled (SOA) Architectures

8 May 2006 Geoff Zeiss

One of the key trends of recent years is the integration of geospatial technology into mainstream IT. What this means practically is that standard IT architectures, tools, and standards are now being applied to geospatial […]

Oracle Spatial Users Conference

29 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Thursday I participated in the Oracle Spatial Users Conference. It seemed to me that this was the best attended Oracle Spatial User Conference yet. There were a number of very interesting talks, but two of […]

Interoperability Using Open Standards

25 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

At GITA 2006 yesterday I witnessed a major milestone for the geospatial world thanks to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Ten vendors in the geospatial arena viewed and updated shared maps. In alphabetical order, ASA, […]

GITA 2006

24 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

This week I am at GITA’s annual conference and exhibition, this year in Tampa, Florida. I spent about four hours yesterday as one of the presenters in a seminar on spatial databases. The other presenters […]

National Conference on Geospatial and Mapping Solutions Malaysia

23 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I just returned from Malaysia, where I participated in the National Conference on Geospatial and Mapping Solutions conference, held for the second year on Pangkor Island. The focus was infrastructure including highways and roads, municipal […]

Managing Infrastructure in Serbia

16 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I want to tell you about another telco that has used geospatial IT to dramatically improve their customer responsiveness and how they did it. First of all let me give you some operational parameters for […]

LI2006 Why Should the CXO Care About Open Source Geospatial ?

6 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Adena Schutzberg moderated a fascinating panel discussion on “Why should the CXO care about open source geospatial products ?” The panelists included quite a diverse group of people with open source geospatial experience including Dave […]

Geospatial is Mainstream

6 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

As further evidence of this phenomenon you might want to read “The Race to Dazzle: Map Sites PIle on the Features” in the latest edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Location Intelligence 2006

6 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I just spent three really exciting days at the Location Intelligence 2006 conference in San Francisco. This has been one of the most fascinating geospatial conferences of the year because it confirmed to me what […]

2005/2006 is a Watershed for Geospatial IT

2 April 2006 Geoff Zeiss

It has become apparent to many people in geospatial IT that 2005/2006 is a watershed period for our sector. It’s not just one thing, but a constellation of things that have enabled and will continue […]

Dubai

30 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Map Middle East 2006 was held this year in Dubai, which I discovered is one of the most remarkable places in the world. First of all it has literally risen out of the desert in […]

Map Middle East 2006

28 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Since Monday I’ve been at Map Middle East 2006 in Dubai. There are people here from several parts of the world, but primarily from the Middle East as you might expect. Some very interesting themes […]

MapGuide Open Source

24 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

March 7, 2006 was a big day for the geospatial community, because that was when Bob Bray, MapGuide Technical Architect at Autodesk, hit the switch that released MapGuide Open Source to the Open Source Geospatial […]

Landbases and Infrastructure

24 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Landbase evolution One of the problems that just about every organization responsible for managing network infrastructure has to face is the evolution of its landbase. By the landbase I mean maps of the roads, water […]

Modelling Infrastructure Networks

17 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Models and Intelligent Databases A key concept that characterizes next generation design tools is model-driven design. First generation CAD tools were designed to produce pieces of paper, called construction drawings in the case of telco, […]

Handheld Devices

13 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Up until a year ago the only handheld alternatives that utilities and telcos had for their field staff were either PDAs or notebooks such as Panasonic Toughbooks. PDAs PDAs, while fine for tabular information, simply […]

National Highway Authority of India

10 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

2005 Report Card on America’s Infrastructure The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publishes a biennial report card on the condition of US infrastructure including roads. In 2001 ASCE assigned a grade of D+ to […]

Field Force Automation and the Aging Worforce

6 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

At the recent Eastern Utility Forum one of the critical areas that was identified by participants, which included power, gas, and railroad companies, is the aging workforce. This is a bigger problem for utilities than […]

Common Misconceptions about Open Source Software

4 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

I have talked to quite a few people in IT about open source and there are some common misconceptions that I run into. 1. The first is that open source is only a small part […]

Eastern Utility Forum

1 March 2006 Geoff Zeiss

Earlier this week Autodesk hosted a forum for large organizations responsible for managing infrastructure networks. Participants included power, gas, municipal, and railway companies. The aspect of the forum that I found most interesting was the […]