I flew back from Las Vegas to Chicago and until just about Denver, the air was clear and I was able to take pictures with my Nikon P6000 with a built-in GPS. The natural scenery […]
At AU I made time to attend an excellent presentation by Lou Ball, who has been in the utility business for over 20 years, on migrating data from CAD drawing files (typically DWGs) to GIS. […]
On Monday here in Las Vegas at Autodesk University the Utility Symposium attracted an overflow crowd of utility folks. It was an opportunity to exchange information and to hear presentations from a number of utilities […]
More than half of the buildings that will be standing in the year 2030 are already built, and the urgency to improve the efficiency of existing buildings as a means to reduce energy use and […]
It has been reported that an employee of Dell has gotten Chrome OS, which Google released to open source Nov 19, to run on a Dell Mini 10v netbook. I blogged earlier that Ed Parsons […]
The UK Government has announced its intention to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April. The Free Our Data campaign has worked for over three years to convince the […]
Autodesk University happens next week in Las Vegas. Here’s some of the utility related events. Monday, November 30 12:00 pm – 01:00 pm Utility Symposium Lunch – [South Pacific C – Mandalay Bay] 01:00 pm […]
According to the Ordnance Survey, OS OpenSpace is intended to promote free and open access to Ordnance Survey data (which is in general relatively expensive) via the OS OpenSpace API to application developers. This means […]