Last week the European Union (EU) Parliament passed legislation which includes measures to enable the deployment of smart meters for 80% of the EU population. The main objective of the legislation is to create a […]
One of the really amazing sessions at GITA this year was an emergency response panel on geospatial technology sharing among agencies in the federal government. Organized by Talbot Brooks of Delta State University The panel […]
The Obama Administration has announced plans for more than $3.3 billion in development grants for smart-grid technology and $615 million for smart-grid storage. Also announced were new guidelines for the ARRA smart-grid grants. The grants […]
President Obama has appointed Aneesh Chopra as federal CTO and Jeffrey Zients as chief performance officer (CPO). CTO and CPO are new positions created by the Obama administration. Annesh Chopra has been Virginia’s Secretary of […]
Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk Topobase 2010, which extends AutoCAD to support geospatial infrastructure management in addition to design. Topobase includes water, wastewater, gas and electric data models and applications as well as […]
Blaine Leonard, of the Utah Department of Transportation and the President-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), gave the opening keynote at GITA 2009 today. His talk focussed on the 2009 ASCE Scorecard […]
I and probably many others were very surprised to hear today that Oracle intends to buy Sun Microsystems. This means that Oracle is now a hardware (Sparc/Ultrasparc) and operating system (Solaris) company as well as […]
Autodesk has announced the release of Autodesk LandXplorer Server 2010. LandXplorer Server allows 3D city models prepared using LandXplorer Studio Professional to be exposed over the Web to any client with a browser. Users can […]