GISCafe Voice Archive for the ‘location intelligence’ CategoryAvenza’s PDF Maps and Affiliate Program for Digital NativesFriday, January 15th, 2016In a world that is rapidly becoming less paper based and more dependent upon digital products, the introduction of a map app that copies the model of iTunes and Kindle is an appealing commodity. Avenza’s PDF Maps does just this: makes PDF maps downloadable on mobile devices to be available anywhere – while abroad, in remote areas and in the back country.  Grand Canyon GISCafe’s 2016 Trends ReportFriday, January 8th, 2016Top trends that we can expect to see dominating the geospatial landscape in 2016 are trends driven in large part by world events and climate change. Technologies play a large part in how well we will be able to manage climate change and attendant disasters, world events that include terrorism, and disease. GISCafe Insights from Autodesk University 2015Thursday, December 31st, 2015Autodesk CEO Carl Bass opened the mainstage presentation of Autodesk University 2015 in Las Vegas at the beginning of December by talking about how companies are “reframing” the way they think about their work. “Sometimes we have to reframe our view toward entire industries,” he said. Access to data was a big topic at the conference, as the building industry also has to grapple with the management of huge datasets, as does the geospatial industry.  Apple building in Cupertino GISCafe Editorial Calendar 2016*Thursday, December 10th, 2015Hexagon and Huawei Partner to Create Smarter CitiesTuesday, December 1st, 2015Hexagon and Huawei are partnering to meet the challenges of the global city dwelling population, with all its safety and infrastructure needs. Since most people live in cities, Hexagon and Huawei see an opportunity to integrate Huawei’s communications hardware with Hexagon’s safety and infrastructure software solutions.  Overall architecture of Smart City Joint Solution Online GIS Education – The Next GenerationThursday, November 19th, 2015Many changes have taken place in Online GIS and geospatial course offerings over the past year, since we first covered the topic on GISCafe. The range of topics has increased to include even courses for high schoolers, and the ever popular drone classes and Geodesign. The popularity of “Massive Open Online Courses” or MOOCs allows colleges and universities to teach thousands of students at one time, at their convenience, rather than at a prescribed day and time. GISCafe News from the Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2015 Conference in LondonFriday, November 13th, 2015At the Bentley Year In Infrastructure 2015 Conference held in London a week ago, it was noted that GIS was an integrated part of Bentley’s offerings, particularly in the utilities and assets areas of the products offerings. Products are being rolled into CONNECT Editions, which will allow users to leverage cloud services through a common modeling environment platform. Other products such as Bentley’s OpenUtilities, leverage GIS and their ContextCapture is being used to obtain a high resolution and georeferenced model of cities and even countries.  SA Water, Adelaide, South Australia, BE Inspired 2015 Winner in Asset Performance Management Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference to be held in London Next Week #YII2015Friday, October 30th, 2015A sneak preview of what’s coming up this week in London at the Hilton Metropole at Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure 2015 Conference, are the following two Bentley blogs, outlining topics for the Utilities Forum: Advancing Utilities for Better Performing Assets and Advancing Utilities for the Digital Age.
 Bentley analysis and visualization of Utility networks Trimble Geospatial Announces New Solutions at INTERGEOThursday, October 8th, 2015Trimble Geospatial announced several new solutions at INTERGEO in Frankfurt, Germany this past month. Tim Lemmon, marketing director Geospatial Software for Trimble and Todd Steiner, marketing director for Imaging and UAS platform for Trimble. outlined what the new products and enhancements are for this release.  Survey Trimble R2 TSC3 Bridge Inspection New Green GIS Initiative from Intergraph Announced at INTERGEOTuesday, September 22nd, 2015Dr. Matthias Alisch, senior marketing manager, EMEA Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I) spoke about the company’s new Green GIS Initiative in Europe which offers a more energy-efficient and climate-friendly IT process. The new Initiative was announced at INTERGEO last week in Stuttgart, Germany. |
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