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Dennis Shelden, founder and chief technology officer of Gehry Technologies spoke during one of the Innovation Forums at Autodesk University today in Las Vegas. In addition to displaying sophisticated high-rise housing that is enabled by the BIM process, he highlighted the convergence of CAD and GIS in the planning process at the World Trade Center [...]
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In a short blog post, Chris Andrews the product manager of Autodesk’s Infrastruture Modeler software, outlines a new cloud-based version of this product that is now available via Autodesk Labs. The product is dubbed Project Galileo Online, and it adds the ability to take the merged data from Infrastructure Modeler to the Autodesk Cloud for [...]
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It’s hard not to get excited about the genesis of earthmine‘s core data collection technology that comes from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has been used on the Mars rovers to quickly map and navigate foreign terrain. The company has been aggressively partnering with mapping companies globally, collecting street-level 3D data worldwide, as well as [...]
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I recently conducted an interview with Paul McRoberts, vice president of the infrastructure product line group at Autodesk. The company has steered away from using the term geospatial in their approach, although they clearly have the design and management of broader geographies within their sites. In fact, they’re taking a multi-scale approach in how they [...]
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While there has been some criticism about the academic and conceptual nature of many of the presentations at the GeoDesign Summit, the break out idea lab on BIM and GIS integration drew a spillover crowd of project managers across infrastructure disciplines. The focus of these discussions was on project implementation and workflow rather than the [...]
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A good portion of the morning opening to the GeoDesign Summit was devoted to new functionality within the ArcGIS toolset, and Esri’s approach to GeoDesign. Multiple scenarios were presented, with a predominant focus on redevelopment for greater livability, with new density, walkability, public transit, and the economic impacts. Scenarios for both Redlands and Philadelphia were [...]
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Five years ago, in an interview with a leading CAD software executive, the distinction was made that CAD dealt with the firm realities of our built environment down to engineering-grade detail, and that GIS dealt with fuzzy issues such as wildlife migration. While pains were made to acknowledge the utility of both toolsets, the distinction [...]
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Sitting in on the packed CAD/BIM Integration workshop facilitated by Michael Schlosser (@engis on Twitter) at AU 2010, the second of two with full enrollment. The unconference format provided good interaction on the ‘billion dollar’ opportunity of integration for better planning, stronger visualization, and stronger management of projects. The tools that we use (CAD, GIS, [...]
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The model building power of LiDAR is still in its infancy, but judging by the explosion of hardware adoption, that won’t be the case for long. Today’s hardware does a good job of capturing a precise 3D reality from the air, from mobile platforms, and from stationary tripods from different perspectives and for different purposes, [...]
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I recently spoke to Fred Limp, the past director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and a gifted geospatial educator and practitioner at the University of Arkansas. I’ve always been fascinated by the types of projects that Fred works on, and I conducted an interview to delve into the evolution that’s taking place in [...]
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