The GIS Lens 
Sanjay Gangal
Sanjay Gangal is the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com. A TED Talk by Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you liveDecember 29th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it’s not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it “geo-medicine.”
HP’s Latest CADCentric Technology – an interview with Tom SalomoneDecember 20th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
I recently had an opportunity to interview Tom Salomone, MCAD & AEC Worldwide Segment Manager at HP at the Autodesk University, 2011 in Las Vegas. This is a transcript of the interview. Sanjay: How has the show been going for you? Tom: The show has been going awesome for us. We’ve got a lot of traffic going through out our booth. We’re showing out our workstations. So we have five desktop workstations and three mobile workstations that we are showing. So we even have a small form factor work station that is sixty five percent smaller than our other work stations. This is for those in the auto-CAD space that are looking for something inexpensive and who are moving into the line. We have our higher end workstations for those people who are looking at 3dS Max. We have an ideal work station for Revit that we have here today as well. So we really have the full spectrum of work stations for auto-CAD. With our mobile workstations, we have a fourteen inch, a fifteen inch, and a seventeen inch. So if you want light, you can get the fourteen inch. If you want power you can get the seventeen inch. If you want to compromise, you can get the fifteen inch. We have our tool-less chassis, not just with our desktops, but, also with our mobiles. So you can actually take apart the bottom of our mobile workstations and access the components the same as you can with our desktop workstations. So, we really have a lot of cool products that we are showing. We also have some brand new technologies that we are showing at this year’s Autodesk. For the first time ever we are showing our new touch panels, our new touch monitor with Autodesk. So people can see that and see how they can really use the new technology. You can do ten fingers touch on the wall; you can do one hundred and fifty, one hundred and eighty finger touch. It’s very, very powerful. The other thing that we are showing that is new since September is that we have our workstation cluster technology. You can actually cluster work stations together to maximize your power for things like analysis, things like rendering. So you can get a whole lot more power applied to those problems locally, just by leveraging unused cores that are available on your workstation. So we have a lot of really cool things. We have our new printers. We are talking about E-print and share. It’s a free software where people can sign up for it, where you can print anywhere on the web. So you can be here in Los Vegas, and you can print back home if you wanted to. It’s really cool. Read the rest of HP’s Latest CADCentric Technology – an interview with Tom Salomone eSpatial releases new video – “eSpatial OnDemand GIS™: Location intelligence transformed”October 26th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Article source: eSpatial eSpatial, leading provider of GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and pioneer in GIS delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), has released a new video, entitled “eSpatial OnDemand GIS™: Location intelligence transformed”.
The video aims to engage both GIS experts and newcomers to location intelligence, and promotes the benefits of the company’s SaaS-based flagship GIS software, eSpatial OnDemand GIS. “Being innovative with cloud technology is never easy, particularly in a complex industry like GIS,” says Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Colm Mulcahy. “However, the overwhelming volume of enquiries we’ve received about eSpatial OnDemand GIS have confirmed that not only is there a market for SaaS-based GIS – but that it’s far more substantial than we’d previously imagined.” The video is brief, and primarily focuses on the benefits of location intelligence. After introducing the concept of location intelligence, the video outlines its business benefits, then explains the crucial difference offered by eSpatial OnDemand GIS: full-function, enterprise-grade GIS software from industry experts, now available for both experts and newcomers, with low-cost SaaS delivery. “We’re excited to continue to bring the benefits of enterprise-grade GIS software to both the geospatial industry, and the much broader business audience that we’ve begun to engage with,” says Mulcahy. “SaaS will clearly play a large role in the future of the geospatial industry and the business community at large, and we’re excited to be at the forefront of this evolution.” Interested in finding out more about eSpatial OnDemand GIS? About eSpatial OnDemand GIS Combining the latest innovations in software delivery and usability with the full functionality of a Geographic Information System (GIS), eSpatial OnDemand GIS makes location intelligence available to any organisation. eSpatial OnDemand GIS is an affordable, predictable, and scalable location intelligence tool, suitable for both GIS experts and newcomers to location intelligence alike. It also provides an ideal enterprise grade hosted services delivery platform for geospatial applications. Interested in experiencing eSpatial OnDemand GIS for yourself? Request a free custom demonstration with a sample of your own data! About eSpatial Our flagship product, eSpatial OnDemand GIS (formerly known as iSMART), has pioneered the availability of a full-function GIS or location intelligence tool with SaaS delivery. As an established presence in the GIS and location intelligence space, eSpatial has developed considerable expertise and intellectual property in spatial software use and development. We are proud to work with leading technology partners such as Oracle, NAVTEQ and Digital Globe; and to count many leading organisations amongst our global customer base. eSpatial is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Email: info@espatial.com Further information Panel Discussion from Intergeo – Integrating Geospatial and Architectural Design Data for Future Cities & CommunitiesOctober 20th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
It is important for engineering and facilities management data to be accessible in GIS databases. There are several possible reasons for this. Today, there is a greater need for accurate facilities management data, and for extending mapping to the indoor environment. The prevalence of BIM makes it possible to have detailed structural models of buildings, bridges and roads, which enhance the GIS database that may be used in 3D city planning. The availability of greater computing power, the cloud and ability to display 3D even down to a small mobile device open up extraordinary possibilities for design in a geo context. And finally, the need for sustainable design. This is a panel discussion between Sanjay Gangal of GISCafe.Com & Andreas Ulmer of Esri Procedural.
Here are some of the questions discussed in the panel.
Interview with Allan Place, Director of Sales, PCI GeomaticsOctober 13th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
In this interview, Allan Place talks about the new Geomatica 2012, the latest version of PCI Geomaics’ complete and integrated desktop image processing software featuring tools for remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, geospatial analysis, map production, mosaicking and more. He says that Geomatica 2012 provides leading edge automation, performance and innovation, leveraging the power of multi-core, multi-processor desktop systems to complete image processing tasks in record time. He also talks about the usability improvements such as on-the-fly image enhancements and drag-and-drop file handling capabilities and new functionalities such as Optical and Coherent Change Detection to make Geomatica 2012 the most advanced Geomatica software release to date. Here is the interview: Interview with Peter Taylor of Spheron-VROctober 12th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Spheron-VR AG is known globally as pioneers in HDR (High Dynamic Range) capture device technology and experts in visual content management software. In this interview Peter talks about the latest version of their HDR Camera system. This photogrammetric camera is able to automatically capture 360º spherical HDR imagery in a single scan operation. He also talks about Spheron’s SceneWorks technology which is designed for onsite scene documentation. The solution allows for the integration of these HDR spherical images into a comprehensive visual database SceneWorks product has tailored solutions for areas such as crime scene documentation, Security, Critical Infrastructure and also other Industrial Industries such as Plant, Construction and other Facility Management applications. Such documentation allows for virtual access to a scene or site from anywhere at any time. Interview with Joe Croser of PointoolsOctober 11th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Here is the second interview from Intergeo. Joe Croser talks about the Pointools products that help process massive volumes of Point Clouds. The Pointools products are being used by industrial designers to reverse engineer manufactured parts with a high level of accuracy, by the architects to reverse engineer buildings exteriors and interiors and by photogrammetry professionals to create detailed maps. See the following related stories: Interview with Jim Van Rens, President of Riegl USAOctober 7th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
We are releasing a series of video interviews from Intergeo 2011. The first interview in the series is the interview with Jim Van Rens, President of Riegl USA. Jim talks about the company and 4 new products announced at the Intergeo Conference (see the full press release below). Jim also announced the ‘RIEGL LiDAR 2012 International Airborne and Mobile User Conference‘ in March, 2012. Here is the video interview: Read the rest of Interview with Jim Van Rens, President of Riegl USA The GISCafe Panels at the Intergeo 2011 and The Raining AcornsSeptember 25th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
It is raining acorns in Nuremberg I arrived in Nuremberg last night for the Intergeo conference. After checking in at the hotel at 6 PM, had a dinner of sausages and sauerkraut, went to sleep at a respectable 8:30 PM — only to be wide awake at 4 AM due to jetlag. I decided to take a stroll along the adjacent lake. I was stunned by the continuous bullet-like cracking sounds. My taxi driver from the airport had assured me that Nuremberg was an extremely safe city with only 100 murders per year compared to 1,000+ in Cologne, the host of Intergeo 2010. On a closer inspection, to my relief, I discovered the sound was caused by the raining acorns from the oak trees around the lake.  The Raining Acorns GISCafe is recording more than 20 video interviews at the Intergeo conference and also hosting two panels on the following topics:
The panels will be broadcast live on Intergeo TV and available on GISCafe a week after the show. Here are some of the companies interviewing with GISCafe :
The interviews will be posted in the GISCafe -> Videos section after the event. Feel free to contact me if you want to participate in the panels or schedule an interview. Sanjay Gangal |
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