Project Galileo is a new technology preview for 3D city modeling, conceptual design and visualization in the planning phase of city-scale infrastructure projects. It is available on Autodesk Labs for free download. Project Galileo is […]
GIS Development, the organizer of Map Africa and other international geospatial conferences, is broadening what has been originally a GIS conference by including vertically focussed seminars and symposia. This year Map Africa, which is taking […]
Project Vasari is a simplified design tool for creating conceptual building designs with integrated analysis for energy and carbon. Vasari is for early concept work. One of its big differentiators from products like Sketchup is […]
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) enables organizations to report green house gas (GHG) emissions and their strategies for addressing climate change. 3,000 organizations in 60 countries report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies […]
According to a Booz Allen Hamilton report in 2005, 55% of the $41 trillion investment in infrastructure that will be required through 2030 will be devoted to water infrastructure. It is projected that demand for […]
In 1989 David Aschauer, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, published a paper that proposed a link between government spending on non-military infrastructure including roads, bridges, and airports and economic productivity. It […]
The “Energy 2020” strategy paper presented by the EU Energy Commissioner says that an investment of €1 trillion will be required over the next ten years. Rising energy prices are a problem in the EU […]
There was an interesting blog on the Bing Community that suggests interesting directions for web applications at Microsoft. First of all, the Bing 3D Map ActiveX control, which used to be known as Virtual Earth […]