PERSPECTIVES
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In our regular end-of-the-year reflection, V1 editors Jeff Thurston and Matt Ball look back over the past 12 months to come up with the top developments of 2011 that will have strong implications for geospatial industry growth and diversity in the coming years. Making the list are technology disruptions, acquisitions, modeling frameworks, and . Read the full list and please add your own observations via comments.
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FEATURES
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TOP 5 LINKS OF THE WEEK
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Matt's Links
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- Sustaination - making it easier to buy and sell good local produce in the UK
- Pachube - building an open air quality sensor network
- AntiMap Log - a smart phone utility for recording your own location data
- Plants for 3DS Max - a library of detailed plants for the popular 3D vis tool
- Raven Aerostar - tethered aerial sensor platforms
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Reader's Links (submit links to
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- Esri CityEngine - details regarding features and capabilities
- Abogo - transportation costs made transparent
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INTERVIEWS
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Survey Performance From Robotic Total Stations to GNSS
 There are few suppliers today that provide a full range of surveying technology ranging from robotic total stations through to GNSS for surveying instruments - GeoMax is one of them. The company aims to deliver a price-to-performance advantage. Asian Surveying and Mapping editor Jeff Thurston interviewed Alois Geierlehner, business director at GeoMax to learn more about these advantages and some of the new technologies the company is producing for international markets.
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COLUMN
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GeoDesign as a Teaching Concept
 I recently had the good fortune to attend a GeoDesign workshop presented by Bill Miller, who is the Director of GeoDesign Services at Esri, and one of the people credited with coining the term. It was a fascinating morning, and it was a reflection of how important this topic is becoming that Alex Miller, president of ESRI Canada (and no relation to Bill), attended. I had been hearing more and more about GeoDesign, but only had a vague notion of what it was, and wondered if it was just the latest buzzword.
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TOP 5 BLOG POSTS OF THE WEEK
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EVENT COVERAGE
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AU 2011 Focuses on the Future
Autodesk University 2011 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Nov. 29 through Dec. 1. This year's event attracted 8,000 people from 80 countries to the live event, and 30,000 virtual attendees via the live Internet broadcasts of the content. The event theme, "The Power of the Possible," placed an emphasis on creativity and the ability for users to realize anything that they dream up thanks to revolutions in digital fabrication.
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Bentley Be Inspired Event Showcases Global Infrastructure Impacts
 Bentley Systems returned to Amsterdam last week for their annual invitation-only Be Inspired thought leadership and award ceremony. There were 280 nominations from 42 countries for this year's awards, and from these there were 57 finalists presenting at the event. Among the infrastructure categories represented were 3-D City GIS, construction simulation, energy modeling, infrastructure asset operations, road and rail, and bridges. Throughout, the company displayed their unique vision of geospatial technology woven and integrated throughout their product line, as well as the critical importance of the geospatial perspective to realize intelligent infrastructure.
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TOP STORIES
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HEADLINES
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Satellite Map Shows Sugar Acreage up 3%
Space New Destination for Turkish Tourism Firm
The Best Data Visualization Projects of 2011
Mapping Detroit's Future: Critical Mass Transit Imagined
Should the Media Pay for Nature Conservation? |
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EVENTS
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GeoDesign Summit, Jan. 5 - 6, Redlands, California
Surface Models for Geosciences, Jan. 23 - 26, Ostrava, Czech Republic
EuroGEOSS 2012, Jan. 25 - 27, Madrid, Spain
International Lidar Mapping Forum, Jan. 23 - 25, Denver, Colo.
Imagina, Feb. 7 - 9, Monaco
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Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities (2010)
By Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, Richard Joseph Jackson
In this book, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our health?
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By Eric Damian Kelly
Sometimes known by other names—especially master plan or general plan—the type of plan described here is the predominant form of general governmental planning in the U.S.
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Urban Land Use Planning (2006)
By Philip R. Berke, David. R. Godschalk
This book explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling the divergent priorities among competing stakeholders
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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