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Volume 2 / Issue 49/ December 9, 2008
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 "Spatial design is a new term that defines
the relationship of people to environments through the use and
application of design principles and is specifically oriented toward
space-location. Architects, urban planning professionals and economic
development personnel have traditionally understood this relationship,
although today we consider this relationship in an extended manner such
that it includes and understanding of the relationship of
sustainability principles across the design processes. Geospatial
technologies and geoinformation are tools and data useful for the
practice of this emerging area of study, whose foundation and future
appears to lie in integration, the notion of holistic study and new
approaches.
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Jeff Thurston, Editor, EMEA and Russia, jeffthurston vector1media.com
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 "The tagline of V1 Magazine is, “promoting spatial design for a
sustainable tomorrow,” so the answer to the question is at the heart of
our mission. There’s now a growing interest
in combining design functionality with the broader geographical context
that geospatial tools offer in order to engage more deeply in land use
planning. We find ourselves revisiting our tagline with a renewed sense
of what spatial design can become."
Matt Ball, Editor, Americas/Asia-Pacific, mattball vector1media.com
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It is easy to cite heart-stopping statistics when discussing the urgent
need for worldwide sustainability initiatives. How about 1.1 billion of
the world’s 6 billion people not having adequate access to clean
drinking water and 2.6 billion not having adequate sanitation services.
Or 3 billion people in developing countries living on less than $2 per
day. Clearly, action is required if we intend the planet to support
society into perpetuity, not to mention offer the opportunity for all
people to realize the quality of life enjoyed in the developed world.
Similar to how investments in areas that both benefit our planet and our
economy are gaining ground, the Open Geospatial Consortium is calling
for key building industry players to make a relatively small investment
of time and money with the potential for a huge pay-off. Working
together to create a common vision and program for interoperability
among their information systems will eliminate waste and increase
profits.
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 A great amount of spatial information has been gathered about buildings
when they are designed. But very little digital information is
available for existing buildings - and other information relating to
inside structures. Using geographic information systems (GIS), robotics
and bridging computer-aided design (CAD) techniques, Penobscot Bay
Media, LLC has developed mobile robotics for data gathering inside
buildings, as well as developing one of the first GIS enabled data
models for this work. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston met with Stuart
Rich of PenBay in London, UK recently to discuss these initiatives and
to learn more.
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Int'l Forestry and Environment Symposium, Dec. 27-28, Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Offshore Arabia 2009 , Jan. 11-13, Dubai, UAE
Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management, Jan. 19-22, Prague, Czech Republic
GIS Ostrava 2009 , Jan. 25-29, Ostrav, Czech Republic
Spatial Information for Sustainable Management of Urban Areas, Feb. 2-4, Mainz, Germany
First Global Summit On Sustainable Development and Biodiversity 2008 , Feb. 7-9, Raipur, India
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 Autodesk University 2008 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from Dec. 1-5.
This year's event attracted roughly 9,000 people, with the theme,
"Experts Like You". The current state of the economy was on everyone's
minds, with fewer attendees due to cutbacks in the AEC industry. But as
a result of the economic pressures, it was a very motivated group to
gain skills and learn strategies in order to continue to be competitive.
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