At DistribuTECH Nancy Bui-Thompson, President of Sacramento Municipal Utilities District (SMUD), gave an insightful presentation about her utility from the perspective of an elected official. I think that Nancy is one of the first examples […]
I am at DistribuTECH this week in Orlando. This is North America’s largest electric power utility event. I don’t know the number of attendees this year, but last year it was close to 10,000. The […]
At the last GoGeomatics Social in Ottawa Jonathan Murphy gave an insightful presentation on Geospatial Tech in use for Oil & Gas production in Alberta. Jonathan related his experiences in Northern Alberta preparing terrain for […]
The contribution of geospatial data and technology to the Canadian GDP through productivity improvement is estimated to be $20.7 billion or 1.1% of the Canadian GDP in 2013. Many sectors have benefited from the application […]
Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris on Saturday approved a global agreement on climate change. They agreed to Hold the increase in the global average temperature to well […]
The Australian government has released a Public Data Policy Statement that commits Australia to an open data policy. (Thanks to Zac Spitzer @zackster for pointing me to this.) All non-sensitive public data will be discoverable […]
At the COP 21 meeting in Paris Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna said that her government wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. She also said that […]
Red Hat has joined the LocationTech open source geospatial initiative. Red Hat joins Google, IBM, Oracle, and Boundless as a strategic member. Other relatively new members are SensorUp and Planet Labs, who join Azavea, MapGears, […]