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Above and underground infrastructure comprise Rotterdam’s open digital twin

6 July 2020 Geoff Zeiss

The City of Rotterdam is developing a digital twin of the city.  3D vector and image data of the above- and underground infrastructure, zoning regulations and city by-laws, data streams from real-time sensors, applications and […]

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Singapore’s standard for location of underground utilities

30 August 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Straits Times In August 2017 the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) released a standard and specifications for the procedure and practice of utility surveying in Singapore.  The standard specifies the data that should be captured for […]

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Applying machine learning to identifying housing starts from satellite imagery

25 June 2019 Geoff Zeiss

Deep learning is increasingly finding practical applications using geospatial data, specifically, satellite imagery. At the GeoIgnite conference in Ottawa, Nicolas Martinez of Statistics Canada described a project scheduled to kick-off in July to use machine […]

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Bentley goes open source for its digital twin products

17 October 2018 Geoff Zeiss

One of the biggest announcements in recent memory in the design and construction world was made by Keith Bentley of Bentley Systems this morning at Year in Infrastructure 2018 in London.  After describing some of […]

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Bentley open sources its web-based digital twin javascript support library

15 October 2018 Geoff Zeiss

I am at the Year in Infrastructure 2018 conference in London this week.  This morning there have been some very interesting announcements relating to digital twins.  First of all Greg Bentley announced Bentley’s foray into […]

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Microsoft becomes a fully fledged open source company

13 October 2018 Geoff Zeiss

Things do change. Microsoft, once the perceived enemy of open source, has been moving into open source over the last two decades.  The first infamous Halloween document requested by Jim Allchin was leaked to Eric […]

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An open source web-based platform for integrating BIM and 3D geospatial

1 December 2017 Geoff Zeiss

BIM+geospatial integration is being driven by a trend toward infrastructure construction projects that require maintenance and/or operations during an extended period post-construction.  At the GEO|Design+BIM conference in Amsterdam, Sanghee Shin, CEO of Gaia3D Inc., gave […]

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Open source blockchain development to enable transactive energy

17 May 2017 Geoff Zeiss

The world is rapidly developing the technology that allows energy flows to be  determined by market forces.  There is little doubt that transactive energy is in the future of electric power in North America, which […]

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