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 Land administration plays a unique role in solving sustainability issues. It involves an integrated approach that includes several common factors that can be applied around the world, even though their actual implementation can differ from country to country. Our relationship to the land includes both physical and cognitive factors and these connect to wider topics related to law, regulation and legislation. The authors of this book provide a wealth of information for understanding land administration systems and how future spatial data infrastructure may incorporate new processes leading toward sustainability.
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 When a domain is relatively new, the terminology is often imprecise, and many different words many be coined and used by different organizations and individuals with none of them realizing that they are talking about essentially the same thing. This is substantially true for the use of Digital City and SDI as applied to urban environments. |
 Autodesk University 2009 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-3. This year's event attracted roughly 6,000 people to the live event, and 16,000 to a simultaneous online broadcast of the content. The event theme, "Learn. Connect. Explore," highlights some of the advantages of the in-person experience, but with the economic and environmental benefits, the online version is likely to grow in subsequent years. With economic pain widespread among the AEC community, the emphasis was placed on the benefits of innovation and for a revamped design/build process that moves us further toward integrated design. |
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 The growing amount of plastic debris in the world’s oceans and waterways has many scientists and anti pollution activists very concerned. The Great Pacific Garbage patch, a gyre in the Pacific Ocean that is capturing plastic debris and is growing in size has provided a rallying cry for activists that is gaining momentum. Drew Stephens, the founder of the GIS Institute, has long been involved in the application of GIS for conservation, and that work has led to his participation on the Think Beyond Plastic expedition in California that recently took place. V1 editor Matt Ball spoke with Stephens about the purpose and outcome of this trip as well as the benefits of applying more geospatial analysis to this problem.
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Spatial Information Technologies for Monitoring the Deformation, Jan. 11-12, HK, Hong Kong
Map India, Jan. 19-21, Gurgaon, India
Second EuroSDR Workshop on INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation Methods , Jan. 14-15, Brussels, Belgium
Coastal Futures,Jan. 20-21, London, UK
All Ireland Symposium on Built Environment Education [AISBEE], Jan. 22, Ulster, N. Ireland
Remote Sensing And Geo-Information For Environmental Emergencies, Feb. 2, Torino, Italy
Imagina, Feb. 3-5, Monaco
SPAR 2010, Feb. 8-10, The Woodlands, Texas
EuroCOW 2010, Feb. 10-12, Barcelona, Spain
ESRI Federal User Conference, Feb. 17-19, Washington, D.C.
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| TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK |
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The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet (2009)
By Reif Larson
When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins.
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The Architecture of Community (2009)
By Leon Krier
Here Krier refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works |
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