To give you an example of what can happen with aging infrastructure, on September 30, 2006 an overpass in Laval, Quebec, Canada collapsed killing 5 people. As you might expect this caused near panic in […]
The OSGEO has announced that MapGuide Open Source 1.2 has been released. You can check the OSGEO Announcement for what’s new in MapGuide Open Source 1.2.
There are some very serious challenges facing the construction industry that are motivating new approaches to how we design, build, operate, and maintain buildings and infrastructure. While these new technologies are designed to address challenges […]
There are some pretty interesting things on the Autodesk Labs site that are worth checking out. One thing you may find pretty interesting is Freewheel , which allows you to look at 2D and 3D […]
FOSS4G , which is the annual world-wide free and open source geospatial conference, will be occurring Sep 24 to 27 in Victoria BC Canada. Preliminary indications Geotips report that 450 have already registered, and based […]
Niel Niemiec, Paul Spencer, Dave McIlhagga and I delivered a workshop at Geoweb 2007 in Vancouver that introduced participants to developing Web 2.0 applications on an open source platform including MapGuide Open Source, FDO, and […]
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 […]