The OSGeo Korean Chapter has announced that Seoul, South Korea has been selected to host the 2015 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) international conference in September 2015. This is the first time […]
Fossil fuel-fired electric generating units (EGUs) are, by far, the largest emitters of GHGs, primarily in the form of CO2, among stationary sources in the U.S. On JUne 2, 2014 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
Locating underground infrastructure in Bahrain Bahrain is one of the few places in the world which attempts to maintain the location of all underground infrastructure in a single database. As I blogged in 2009, the […]
In the UK there is a major 10-year research initiative entitled Mapping the Underworld (MTU) that seeks to address the serious social, environmental and economic consequences arising from an inability to locate – accurately and […]
Recently I posted an article about mapping underground utility infrastructure in cities and regions around the world. The most recent notable efforts in the regard are Las Vegas, which is creating a 3D model of […]
At the Location Intelligence Summit 2014 (LI2014) in Washington, Juan Marin, CTO at Boundless, gave an overview and demonstration of GeoGit, a distributed system for versioning geospatial data using the same philosophy as Git. Data […]
In its latest Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 (ETP 2014) the International Energy Agency (IEA) looked at the energy sector over the next 40 years. ETP 2014 analyses three possible energy futures to 2050: 6°C Scenario (6DS) […]
While in Switzerland for Geospatial World Forum 2014 I had the opportunity to spend some time with Dr. Martin Huber of Condesys Consulting who is responsible for the online web-based system Koordination im öffentlichen Raum […]