At the Second Annual Summit on Data Analytics for Utilities in Toronto, Brad Williams, Vice President of Utilities Industry Strategy at Oracle, made the case that in the context of smart grid spatial analyics is […]
One of the industries where geospatial data and technology is having a major impact is insurance. I blogged previously about a ground breaking risk assessment study of sea level rise in North Carolina. The study […]
It is incredible how rapidly wind power generation has grown over the past decade. The latest Global Wind Report Annual Market Update 2012 from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports that the 2012 global […]
In September 2011, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of creating collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open […]
IBM has published its predictions for five big innovations that will change our lives within five years. This is the eighth year that IBM has published its 5 in 5. I find all of these […]
At this year’s GIS in the Rockies, James Fee gave the keynote which was targeted at GIS professionals on the topic of how to remain relevant in the age of change. He concluded that a […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium’s draft GeoPackage (GPKG) standard is an open, app-independent, platform-independent, portable, interoperable, self-describing data container and API. This standard is intended to support multiple mapping and geospatial applications such as fixed product […]
June 24 of this year, the President of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Mark Reichardt sent a letter to OGC members referencing an extraordinary dialog that was ongoing at that time among both members and […]