Friday, June 25th, 2010
Atlases can be considered as the original mashups, combining and integrating several pieces of geographic and spatial information. Globes enabled viewers to gain a better appreciation of the world, including land and oceans. But atlases combined the advantages of graphics with the printing press. Today, we look at the world through advanced digital technologies that
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Satellite imagery and aerial photography have been compared against each other often – since the launch of the world’s first satellites useful for geographic information systems (GIS) and advanced image processing techniques. Previous comparisons focused primarily on issues related to resolution and accuracy. Today we are as likely to see those comparisons continue, but timing,
Friday, March 19th, 2010
Russia has recently launched 3 more GLONASS satellites bringing that constellation to 20 operating satellites in space. The timing of this improved coverage is important. The rest of the geospatial industry, particularly the CAD and GIS market are rapidly transitioning to new applications and technologies that leverage increased navigation and positioning capabilities, and GALILEO
Friday, March 5th, 2010
A significant amount of spatial and geodata related work is related to urban activity. This involves all kinds of geodata including cadastral, topographic, infrastructure, demographic, transport and many other types of information. At the same time we can find similar levels of activity related to rural environments. While modelling for each may take on different
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Time changes and technology does as well. Over time the reasons we purchased a product also change. We learn, we grow and we development new thoughts about spatial data, maps and how new designs and applications can be created. Growth leads to new ideas and perceptions, suddenly what was acceptable appears blurs and becomes re-established
Friday, January 8th, 2010
How many times have you heard people say, “it’s a personnel, organisational or structural problem” as they began to run into a wall in terms of advancing a project more quickly or encountered resistance, sometimes even failure? Many of us have experienced this, and, the reactions can also be different with some walking away, others
Friday, December 18th, 2009
There are important signals emerging from COP15 Copenhagen that are important to the geospatial industry. The economy has been in a poker game with environment, and nature has called the bluff, and demands attention. COP15 is now talking about transparency, traceability, quantification and quality as nations demand to know what each other is doing about
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
The geospatial community has long supported the idea that open data leads to the development of applications and new technologies. The prevailing theory goes something like this; if people have access to open geospatial data then they will use it to develop applications. That seems logical and is certainly one of the goals many of
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Geographic information systems (GIS) can be used for a multitude of purposes and in different ways to create, manage, analyze and represent spatial information. The nature of GIS is built upon a willingness, interest and expectation to solve a specific problem using both geodata and GIS. With so many definitions floating around about what a
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Digital cities are a topic of high interest today. While they have been discussed for a number of years, technological developments, particularly in the area of 3D and remote sensing have propelled them forward. While geographic information systems (GIS) are natural integrator’s of spatial information, their role in spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is well known.
