Google has announced Goggles for Android mobile phones. Goggles allows you to identify objects by taking a picture of something, a building or structure, a painting, a bottle of wine, or a store are some […]
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the MEST conferences, is the daily wrap up where one of the organizers briefly reviews and summarizes the day’s presentations. I find the exercise very worthwhile because it gives […]
In a very interesting presentation by Dominic McPolin of the Central Planning Office of Bahrain, he mentioned that Bahrain intends to reduce CO2 emissions per capita by 60% by 2014. This exceeds the GHG objectives […]
Today at MEST 2009, I had the opportunity to see a system for maintaining a single database containing all underground infrastructure in Bahrain. A single repository for all underground facilities is something that is only […]
I am at MEST 2009 in Bahrain where I had the opportunity to speak about the New Interoperability Challenge: The Convergence of BIM, CAD, GIS, and 3D and some related topics. I listened to a […]
Presentations, videos and posters from FOSS4G 2009 are now online. Almost all presentations, tutorials and workshop material has been collected, and two thirds of the presentations have video recordings. Presentations, workshops, tutorials and videos are […]
Mark Volz of Ergon Energy gave a presentation at AU that described how Ergon Energy has integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP), GIS, and design systems around a single point of truth and provides web-based access. […]
Last night at an awards ceremony at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Autodesk AEC Headquarters building in Waltham, Massachusetts was awarded a ‘Best of Year’ from Interior Design Magazine in the Eco […]