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Geoff
Ottawa, Canada
Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries.
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I-5 bridge classified as Functionally Obsolete in the National Bridge Inventory
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Transportation for America has put the National Bridge Inventory of 604,474 bridges on line with Google Maps so you can zoom to any area in the U.S. and see which bridges are structurally deficient and the daily traffic on them.... Continue reading
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I-5 bridge collapse: Is private capital the solution for the sad state of American infrastructure ?
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In 2009 Blaine Leonard, of the Utah Department of Transportation and the then President-elect of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), gave the opening keynote at GITA 2009. His talk focussed on the 2009 ASCE Scorecard on American infrastructure... Continue reading
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Modeling downtown The Hague to reduce energy consumption
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I've blogged previously about a project by the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest community college district in the U.S., create 3D BIM models of all the buildings on the LACCD campuses. One of the most important motivations for... Continue reading
Posted yesterday at Between the Poles
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Executive order makes open and machine readable data the default for the US Federal Government
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The principle of free and open access to government geospatial data has been adopted by many governments including US Federal, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, California, and by the City of Vancouver and other cities. But being able to access... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Between the Poles
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Open modeling standard released for public comment by OGC and OpenMI
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The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the OpenMI Association (OpenMI) have released the proposed Open Modelling Interface Version 2 (OpenMI) standard for public comment. This standard defines a standard apporach for independently developed computer models of environmental processes to exchange... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Between the Poles
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Oracle Spatial and Graph to support NURBS
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At the Oracle Spatial and Graph User Meeting, the folks from Oracle outlined some of the things to expect in the next version of Oracle 12c. I was very impressed. All of the below is my interpretation of what will... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Between the Poles
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Open source: then and now
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I was asked participate on a panel on open source geospatial organized by Eclipse LocationTech at the Location Intelligence in Washington DC. I decided to look at how software had changed since the early days of open source which I... Continue reading
Posted 3 days ago at Between the Poles
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Reusing integrated geospatial and design data across the construction lifecyle
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One of the most important things that impressed me at the Geospatial World Forum 2013 (GWF 2013) conference in Rotterdam is the degree to which in the Netherlands that building information modeling (BIM) and geospatial are perceived to be tightly... Continue reading
Posted 4 days ago at Between the Poles
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Integrating geospatial into construction: the challenge
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I spent most of last week at the Geospatial World Forum 2013 (GWF 2013) in Rotterdam, which was an amazing event, because of its focus on monetizing geospatial value in vertical industries, Industries for which there were symposia at GWF... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Between the Poles
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Geospatial analytics for the smart grid
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At the Distributech 2013 conference, the largest electric power distribution conference in North America with attendance of about 9600, earler ths year in San Diego, if there was one consistent message, it was that smart grid has become mainstream -... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Economic value of big geospatial data could reach $700 billion/yr by 2020
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McKinsey Global Institute published a report Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity that analyzes the state of digital data, how it is used in different domains in both the private and public sectors, and offers suggestions... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Estimating the economic and financial impact of poor data quality
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I have blogged on numerous occasions about data quality issues relating to infrastructure data at utiltiies including geolocational accuracy, most recently here. There is an interesting compilation of statistics in an InsightSquared infographic relating to the cost of poor data... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Infrastructure excellence competition
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Infrastructure-excellence.com is hosting the second annual competition showcasing Excellence in Infrastructure— highlighting the best projects done in 2012/2013. The winners will be given over US$10,000 in prizes by the competition sponsors. The competition is open to anyone 21 years and... Continue reading
Posted May 7, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Privacy and personal geographic data
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At the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, Kirk Goldsberry, who is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, gave a fascinatng presentation with the help of two of... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Solar PV on the verge of becoming a disruptive technology in the electric power industry
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I blogged previously about a presentation that, Rod Nikula, VP Power Supply at Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Assn (WH) in Minnesota, gave at this year's NRECA conference that hit on a very sensitive topic among power utilties. Companies like Solar City,... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Location-enabled Society: Mapping tweets using real-time big data technology and privacy
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In a very appropriately titled session Taking Society's Pulse in Real-time at the Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society conference in Boston, one item really got people's attention focussed on the issues that arise from combining... Continue reading
Posted May 2, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Open source geospatial lab announced at University of Southampton
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGEO) has announced the formation of the Open Source Geospatial Laboratory (OSGL) at the University of Southampton in the UK.. In 2011, the International Cartographic Association (ICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Creating the Policy and Legal Framework for a Location-enabled Society
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On Thursday and Friday of this week the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy is co-hosting a conference with Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Berkman Center of Internet and Society and Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Global smart grid investment reached $36.5 billion in 2012
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Memoori, a UK research firm, has released a report “The Smart Grid Business 2012 to 2017”, which analyzes global smart grid-related sales. Its research has identified some interesting trends in the current smart grid market. Globally In the last 3... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at Between the Poles
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US Government releases national strategy for civil Earth observation
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The National Science and Technology Council has released a National Strategy for Civil Earth Observation.. Currently, 11 Federal departments and agencies participate in over 100 Earth observation programs which together cost billions of dollars annually. The Strategy provides a mechanism... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Providing web access to usable open geospatial data
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The principle of free and open access to government geospatial data has been adopted by many governments including US Federal, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, California, and by the City of Vancouver and other cities. But being able to access... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Value of geospatial services to the global economy
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Google released a report What is the economic impact of Geo services ? earlier this year prepared by Oxera Consulting Ltd in the UK. What are geospatial services ? Oxera incuded all interactive digital mapping and location-based data, products, and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Between the Poles
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SPAR 2013: Developing an intelligent 3D model of above and below ground infrastructure for the City of Las Vegas
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At SPAR 2013 Keith Warren, BIM/3D SUE Manager at VTN Consulting gave a fascinating presentation on the 3D above and below ground model of city infrastructure including roads, utilities, telecom, and buildings that VTN has developed with the City of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 22, 2013 at Between the Poles
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Using GIS to avoid nesting geese on the University of Waterloo campus
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It's nesting season in Southern Ontario. Geese are notoriously territorial about their nests, so finding a way across the campus at the Univerity of Waterloo (where the Blackberry was originally developed) that avoids goose nests is important. The university's Open... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Between the Poles
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SPAR 2013: Integrated geospatial, LiDAR and design datasets for large infrastructure construction projects
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Kevin Gilson, of the Project Visualization group at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), gave an overview of how PB manages 3D+ datasets in support of design and construction for large infrastructure projects such as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the I-95 New... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2013 at Between the Poles
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