From the category archives:
Today, the Trust for Public Lands has launched a rigorous ranking of the top city park systems among the 40 largest U.S. cities. The park rating system uses GIS to create digital maps that evaluate accessibility beyond simply a measurement of distance, as well as park size, services and investment. For these measurements, the ranking [...]
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Today, Trimble broke ground on a new operations center in Westminster, Colo., with Gov. John Hickenlooper one of many to turn a shovel. The event was presided over by Steven Berglund, president and CEO of the company, who asserted that while the company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif., most of their organic growth would [...]
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The president of Iceland met with Google at a world oceans event in Singapore this year, and dialogue was started regarding the integration of fish monitoring data with Google Earth. The president sees information technology as a key to sustainability, and has been a proponent of the Iceland IT sector that have developed a number [...]
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A recent paper [PDF] by M. Shoko and Njike, presented at the first Conference on Advances in Geomatics Research, looks at the importance of spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for economic health and recovery for Zimbabwe. SDI provides access to spatial information for decision making, and is said to play a vital role for both government [...]
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Wubbo Ockels, former astronaut and professor of Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the Delft University, Netherlands spoke this morning at the Geospatial World Forum in Amsterdam. As a former astronaut for The Netherlands, he has a unique perspective regarding the responsibility that we have for our planet, having gone beyond the bounds of [...]
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Ingrid Vanden Berghen, administrator general, National Geographic, Institute of Belgium and President Eurogeographics, Belgium presided over a session on capacity building and the expansion of the global geospatial marketplace to a billion plus people. Leading off this session was an address by Jack Dangermond, founder and president of Esri. The fact that our world is [...]
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Steve Berglund, CEO of Trimble, gave a morning address at the Geospatial World Forum today in Amsterdam. Contrary to a call for greater promotion of the industry, Berglund stated that geospatial is everywhere as a foundation for business now, embedded in everything we do as a society going forward. With an aside that perhaps this [...]
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leerstandsmelder.de, a website used to map vacant buildings in German cities, has gained a great deal of local press, and now counts Hamburg, Berlin, Bremen, Kaiserlauten and Frankfurt as mapped. The site continues to build out its inventory of vacant buildings with the goal of seeing these unused assets put to use. The site is [...]
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A dynamic real-time wind map for the continental United States provides interesting insight into local weather by modeling data from the National Digital Forecast Database. The near-term forecasts are updated once per hour, and the site reflects trends in a mesmerizing way. The site was created as a personal art project by data visualization experts [...]
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The Swedish furniture maker Ikea has recently launched a new property development branch called LandProp Services to build neighborhoods. The company kicks off this effort with a 11-hectare development in East London called Strand East that isn’t far from the 2012 Olympics site. The site is to have 1,200 homes and apartments, with office, retail [...]
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