Kansas State University Geography has calculated quotients for the seven deadly sins for each county (I’m guessing) in the US and plotted the results as maps. Plenty of material here for blaming some other part of […]
A recent post by Dale Lutz of Safe Software reminded me that one of my fellow directors on the GITA Board is Eric Hoogenraad, of the City of Abbotsford, whose title is Manager of Geomatics and Building […]
I’m at WAURISA in Bellevue, WA for a geospatial conference for a few days. The first day is devoted to workshops. The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) presented an introduction to open source geospatial applications […]
Last week after Map Middle East we drove from Abu Dhabi to Dubai, where I spent the day with some of our partners. This was the first time I had been in Dubai since the […]
One of the most interesting presentations from a design and construction perspective was by Neil Gyte, Atkins Global, one of the world’s leading engineering and design consultancies, who talked about Atkins Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), […]
I’ve been to several Map MIddle East conferences previously in Dubai and had always found many of the presentations worthwhile. There are always good speakers including invariably Vanessa Lawrence of the Ordnance Survey, who was […]
I’ve been at Map Middle East in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Right outside my hotel on the Abu Dhabi corniche, I really didn’t pay attention to what looks like a rather tall palm tree, […]
At the recent GITA conference I heard a presentation by Steven Collier of Milsoft on the smart-grid. He illutstrated the distinction between the grid as we know it and the smart-grid by drawing an analogy […]