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 […]
The 1Spatial Conference took place this year at the Ordnance survey in Southampton. It was an outstanding conference in many ways, one of which was the weather, which was brilliant. I must admit that on […]
I just spent a couple of days at Map Middle East 2007 in Dubai. The theme of this year’s conference was Geospatial Convergence: The Next step. Dubai is a perfect place for this theme. I […]