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Autodesk University kicked off today in Las Vegas, with a media day briefing that spoke frankly about technology disruptions facing their customers. Customers are being pushed to do more with less in an uncertain economy, with a greater focus on sustainability. Even in the face of these challenges, this year’s event has drawn more than [...]
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Arnulf Christl, president of the OSGeo Foundation lead off the FOSS4G event this week in Denver, providing an overview of the leading voice for Geospatial Open Source software. By 2011 there are now 19,471 unique subscribers to OSGeo, more than 400 mailing lists, and more than 15 million lines of code, with 740 contributors, and [...]
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Later this month, the Open Geospatial Consortium is holding a technical committee meeting in Boulder, Colo., and as part of the meeting there is a one-day 3D Summit on Sept. 20 to discuss 3D Information Management (3DIM). The ongoing work on 3D geospatial standards enable innovation with city modeling, augmented reality, AEC, operations and maintenance [...]
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Yesterday’s FME User Meeting in Denver, with a cooking theme, proved to be a good balance between the usual Safe Software witty wordplay, education, and some previews on coming functionality. The meeting featured co-founder Don Murray and Mark Stokes, manager of professional services, who were both dressed in chefs costumes to emphasize the “FME Recipes” [...]
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The open source Ushahidi platform has now morphed into a cloud-based Crowdmap service. The site promises all the benefits of the Ushahidi functionality to create crowdsourced map content, but without any of the inherent difficulties of setting up and configuring any software. Anyone wanting to use the software can be up and running with their [...]
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The 2010 Intergraph International User’s Conference that was scheduled for June 14-17 in Nashville will be rescheduled due to devastating flooding at the Opryland Resort & Convention Center. News footage of the site show water throughout the first floor of the facility, with restaurants and shops almost completely under water. The storm that rolled through [...]
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The SPAR 2010 Conference kicked off last evening with some in-depth workshops and a Super Bowl reception. The program for this year’s event mixes a number of focus areas for technological advancement along with breakout sessions for key technology applications. In this hot technology area there’s a lot of buzz about improved workflows, and with [...]
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A group of Canadian researchers and democracy advocates watched the U.S. political elections with a degree of awe as the media parsed votes by geodemographic profile at the county level, and as maps became a central part of election coverage for insight into the electorate. Canada possesses detailed demographic and voting data, but it’s not [...]
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I’ll be traveling to Las Vegas today to attend Autodesk University. I missed last year’s event, and I’m eager to get back. I have a number of interviews planned, along with visits with vendors that are focused on digital cities and CAD/GIS/BIM convergence. Of particular interest is a session on Wednesday on Digital Cities, Pilot [...]
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GITA has released the first in a series of whitepapers on, The Geospatial Dimensions of Critical Infrastructure and Emergency Response. The first of the series is titled, “Infrastructure Interdependencies,” and it contains valuable insight into how the failure of one piece of infrastructure can have rippling effects that take down the multiple and often co-located [...]
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