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How does sustainable development relate to the business of geospatial technologies?

by Matt Ball on November 2, 2009

The idea of long-term maintenance is an essential component of sustainability. Individually, thinking about every purchase is the way to combat our throw away culture, and to place fewer stresses on our planet. Wrapping your business plan around the concept of sustainable development means a long-term commitment to customers that delivers value and maximizes their [...]

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How will technology evolve so that digital city models become the new base map?

by Matt Ball on June 6, 2008

This column is sponsored by ESRI We’re slowly entering a new era where large-scale investment in high-resolution 3D models will change how we interact with representations of our world. All disciplines that make a living planning, constructing and managing the built environment will increasingly work through shared models. Digital city models have the attention of [...]

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If you were a customer, how would you approach the purchase of new geotechnology for your organisation?

by Matt Ball on April 18, 2008

This column is sponsored by ESRI Deciding on the purchase of new geotechnology is something that I’d do by looking at the cost, expected lifecycle and maintenance expenses weighed against the contribution of the purchase toward the organization’s insight, efficiency and bottom line. Geotechnology purchases require a varying scale of commitment because there are multiple [...]

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