Last week U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC ruled that Oracle can copyright application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Java programming language. In a unanimous ruling the appeals court held that […]
Geospatial World Forum 2014 in Geneva this year had ministerial-level participation from Ghana, Mauritius, Malaysia, India, Azerbaijan and Philippines. A total of 1,002 delegates from 78 countries attended the conference, as well as 48 exhibitors […]
At the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, as part of a ministerial panel discussion on government’s role in evolving geospatial policy for national and regional development, Prashant Shukle, Director General of the Canada Centre for […]
At the Geospatial World Forum in Geneva, several geospatial-related projects from South Korea are being highlighted. One of the most important is a five-year project conceived, sponsored and funded by the Korean Institute of Construction […]
I’ve blogged several times about the expanding effort in Europe and the United States to map accurately underground infrastructure. I blogged about the high ROI for investment in improving the geolocation and other information about […]
LEED is a system guiding the design, construction, operations and maintenance of green buildings. Worldwide there are more than 59,000 commercial and institutional projects participating in LEED, representing 967 million gross square meters (GSM) of […]
At the end of April the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) announced that Agua Caliente, world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant, had come online. The plant has a capacity of 290 megawatts (MW) of […]
Checking regulatory compliance for building permitting remains a tedious, time-consuming and costly process. While the critical importance of timely, accurate, and uniform code review has been an important goal of regulatory agencies for some time […]