At Geospatial World Forum 2019 the first international workshop on digitally mapping the underground Underground mapping for resilient infrastructure: Datafication of the Underground was organized by Rob van de Velde and Paul Janssen of Geonovum. […]
Transmission line inspections for vegetation management and other purposes are essential in ensuring grid reliability and resilence. They are generally performed by manned helicopters or by a ground crew. Data is collected with cameras and […]
At the International Standards Summit 2019 in Düsseldorf a group of people representing owners, engineering and construction firms, vendors and services providers in the AEC space, and standards organization Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and buildingSMART […]
Maintaining accurate, up-to-date GIS data has been a challenge for utility and communications firms for decades. Inefficient CAD/GIS workflows result in utility GIS quality degrading with time. Now with business drivers such as implementing a […]
It is now 20 years since the University of Minnesota (UMN) MapServer 3.0 was made open source. Daniel Morissette (@dmorissette) has posted a bit of interesting history on Twitter about the early days of open […]
In the last few years strong business drivers for improving power distribution design productivity including an aging and shrinking workforce, an accelerating transition to the smart grid and a rapidly changing utility business model have […]
Workflows for ensuring utility GIS quality are fundamentally broken and have been for decades. Integrating CAD and GIS into an efficient workflow has been a challenge and it has simply not been a priority in […]
With FAA rules permitting beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) UAVs available through Part 107 waivers the cost of capturing the data required for vegetation management for power lines, whether transmission or distribution, could drop […]