There have been some amazing changes at the FCC. First of all there is the new broadband.gov, the new fcc ideascale broadband site, where you can suggest and vote on what you think is important for […]
SPATIALInfo is holding its 2009 User Conference at Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center in Breckenridge, Colorado at which I gave a keynote. The event is extremely well attended by telco, cable, power, municipal utility […]
One of the challenges facing utilities and telecommunications firms worldwide is an inefficient paper-based process for managing engineering design information. The challenges associated with a paper-based information flow includes poor data quality, low productivity, multiple […]
The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released The Economic Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the first quarterly report by the CEA to Congress on the effects of the Recovery Act […]
Project Twitch is an Autodesk Labs cloud project to run AutoCAD and other design applications over the web. It is now available for testing at Autodesk Labs. The applications you can test are AutoCAD 2010 Autodesk […]
The City of Nanaimo launched their new MapGuide Open Source / Fusion based NanaimoMap in beta in July. It’s in beta to shake out issues by more widespread use, and because they have not yet […]
Jackie Ng has announced the latest release of the FDO Toolbox. Monochromatic map previews are a thing of the past. The Toolbox also now provides basic spatial indexing for datasets. Because this enables doing intersection […]
As I blogged previously, the extent of Arctic sea ice is one of the most accessible sources of data showing the effect of global climate change. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) began […]