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There is a great deal in common between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches, particularly with the larger BIM associated with the “building of” infrastructure projects or analysis of planning options. At this week’s Autodesk University, I moderated a debate regarding BIM or GIS as the way to move forward for [...]
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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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The world is rapidly becoming more urbanized, having achieved a milestone of 50% of the population living in cities just a few years ago, this is projected to explode to 70% by 2070. The frenzy of construction that is needed to house millions more in an urban setting comes with a chance to rethink and [...]
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Aaron Patterson from Enspiria Solutions addressed some of the critical roles that GIS play in supporting smart grid deployments. Patterson suggests that the ultimate goal of a centralized room with a full view of the energy grid is at least 30 years away, but utilities are working now on biting off smaller parts of the [...]
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This morning the GIS in the Rockies event kicked off in Denver with a keynote titled, “Geospatial Now” by Dr. Jan Van Sickle, who has 40 years of experience in the geospatial industry. Van Sickle began by discussing the rapid pace of business change in the geospatial industry with a quote from Alice in Wonderland, [...]
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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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Geoweb 3d has entered into the geospatial visualization space from roots in the gaming industry, providing impressive 3D visualization performance that takes full advantage of the processing power of today’s video cards. I visited the company within the NAVTEQ booth yesterday at the Esri International User Conference, and was impressed by their powerful processing and [...]
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In the executive session on Spatial Data Infrastructure at the Esri International User Conference there rose a discussion of what SDI means in reaction to Jack Dangermond’s comment that he’d love to move beyond discussion of SDI and rather call it National GIS. A spatial data infrastructure is a bit different than a National GIS [...]
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Jack Dangermond, president and founder of Esri, addressed the 14,000 attendees at the Esri International User Conference today, speaking about our rapidly changing world, and our need to deal with major change. These issues include such things as climate change, population, political and social conflict, loss of biodiversity, energy, water security, natural resources, human health, [...]
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Robert B. Murrett, former director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and current professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, spoke to the dynamic changes that are creating greater demands for GIS as well as raising expectations at the Esri International User Conference today. The talk focused on the tremendous [...]
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