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Geospatial as underlying component for Autodesk product line

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

At AU it appeared that geospatial had an uncertain future at Autodesk. Senior director, Infrastructure Modeling Product Line Paul McRoberts stated at Autodesk’s AEC Technology Day this week that geospatial is the underlying component for all of Autodesk products. The FDO platform is extensible open source software that can be noted in transportation, water and waste water, land development, power and energy.

McRoberts said that 24% of the gross revenue collected by AEC firms is for planning, according to an American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) study. It might appear that the role of geospatial at Autodesk is visual in nature: modeling and visualization for water, transportation, energy and water and wastewater, where getting public approval is primary to getting projects off the ground. What is needed here is a way to show a workflow including location and geospatial data. The technologies spoken most about – 3ds Max for visualization and Dynamite VSP Exporter are for showing how problems can be solved, interoperability, and being able to migrate information to others.

The laser scanning environment and lidar data play a part in this. McRoberts said that surveying may become a thing of the past. With the need in many places for ground truth data, particularly in areas that aren’t readily accessible with laser scanning equipment or lidar, I think it may be a long time before this is realized.

“Digital cities,” a hot buzz term of a year or two ago, will now go by the name “sustainable cities” as one part of a greater vision including extension of assets such as tranmission lines into rural communities. It is part of the scope of LandXplorer, in its quest to address large scale projects and visualization. McRoberts said LandXplorer holds a GIS layer underneath that contains real data.

Chile earthquake geospatial resources

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

This is what I have so far and will add to it as more information emerges:

Websites:

Google Crisis Response Map of the Chile Earthquake

Google Mapmaker

chile.ushahidi.com

According to a blog at OpenStreetMap, Rapideye has made available to OpenStreetMap satellite images of areas of Chile affected by the earthquake. The images are copyrighted but can be used to add data to OSM.

For information on how to include these images into JOSM and Potlatch see

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2010_Chile_earthquake/Imagery_and_data_sou…

The MapRoom

Crisis Commons nothing posted here yet.

USGS

Podcast: Lessons From Chile

Articles:

Quake Finds Tsunami Forecasts Still Limited Kenneth Chang, March 2, 2010, The New York Times (registration required)

Satellite Images and GIS Aid in Tsunami and Earthquake Disaster Recovery Satellite Imaging Corporation

Productivity gains with geospatial

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Reports that show productivity gains using geospatial around the world include:

The Socio-Economic Impact of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia (April 2008)

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/psi_library/reports/the_socio_economic_impact_of_the_spatial_data_infrastructure_of_catalonia_april_2008

Spatial Information in the New Zealand Economy

http://www.geospatial.govt.nz/productivityreport/




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