Recently I had the opportunity to visit a very interesting company, iMapData, which is now part of ChoicePoint. These folks started out in the late 90’s doing market studies for blue chip commercial organizations. After […]
I had the opportunity to drop by the NXTcomm conference in Chicago on my way to Washington from San Francisco and it was worth it. I have not seen so much energy around telecom since […]
Doug Engelbart gave one of the keynotes at ISDE5. Doug is originally from Oregon but has been in the Bay area most of his working life. In 2000 he was awarded the National Medal of […]
I have been able to attend and present at the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth at the University of California Berkeley. For those of you not familiar with Digital Earth, it’s a concept, popularized […]
At GeoTec 2007 in Calgary Alberta GeoTec Media announced the winners of its inaugural Geospatial Leadership Awards . This is a new awards program that was “created to identify and recognize individuals and organizations for […]
In the US digital spatial data collected at taxpayer expense is available from the Federal government at no cost. The best known example is the TIGER/Line (R) files, which comprise a digital database of geographic […]
I just spent two days at a remarkable conference in Toronto. The conference was a joint effort of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics and the ISPRS. It was very well attended, primarily by Canadians, but […]
I have been in Hobart , Tasmania this week at the Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial International Conference. This is the second time I have been to a SSI conference and I have found these events […]