Monday, September 17th, 2007
Future climate inconsistencies will demand more widespread planning. Major global catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina’s rampage over New Orleans or the massive earthquake in Pakistan in 2005 demonstrate significant truths about our vulnerability and the power of nature. However, sometimes it is the slightly less dramatic – second division disasters, if that’s not too insensitive
Monday, August 13th, 2007
Few businesses can operate for long while experiencing annual inventory shrinkage of 20 percent or more. Yet, that’s the situation faced by water utilities around the world as their distribution systems regularly pour treated, potable water down the proverbial drain. Water loss represents a major fraction of non-revenue water (NRW), and it’s a problem that
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Data quality is an integral part of any organisation, and yet is often a forgotten discipline. It is clear that the manual maintenance of large-scale datasets is time consuming, expensive and often unrealistic, so what can we do to combat the problem? This column will address the latest spatial data quality issues, why they matter,
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
This spring I became part of the new booming map-society: the society of the personal navigation systems owners. I bought a brand new navigation-system-device for me and my car. The navigation-system-device was used for the first time when my wife and I had to navigate from a London airport to some friends’ address in a
