Two weeks ago I gave a presentation, at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting. This is one of those mega-meetings attended by almost anyone involved in the transportation related professions. TRB is part of the National Research Council jointly administered by the National Academy...More>>

TatukGIS announced the release the latest major upgrade (version 10) of its royalty-free GIS Developer Kernel (DK) component for Embarcadero Delphi/C++Builder, Microsoft .NET Framework for WinForms/WPF, and Microsoft ActiveX/OCX.More>>

In December I attended the “EcoBuild America” conference organized by the National Institute of Building Sciences. Ecobuild America and its co-located events provided education and resources to build smarter and improve our built environment. My key interest was to understand how the playing...More>>

CoreLogic released its first ever Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis detailing the record-breaking natural disasters that struck the United States in 2011. The report provides an analysis of significant hurricane, wildfire, tornado, flood and earthquake events, as well as a summary of...More>>

Avenza Systems Inc. announced the release of MAPublisher 8.6 for Adobe Illustrator. In addition to a large number of new features and enhancements to existing ones, this release is the first version of MAPublisher to offer support for Safe Software FME Desktop product.More>>

Last week I concluded a two-week visit to Japan. My wife and I visited my daughter who followed in my footsteps as a Naval officer stationed on the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) home ported in Yokosuka. We were going to visit her earlier but the earthquake and Tsunami precluded a visit at that critical...More>>

As usual, the mega GEOINT 2011 Conference was like drinking from a fire hose. There was much to see and too many sessions to attend but the folks who run the conference, USGIF (US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation), did a phenomenal job maximizing everyone’s time with three tools that were...More>>

Point Grey introduced the Flea3 USB 3.0 line of high-resolution, super-speed, CMOS-based digital cameras. More>>

Once every five years, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) holds a “Visualization in Transportation Symposium.” The focus of the conference is to review new visualization tools, techniques and developments related to Transportation.More>>

DigitalGlobe announced that it has been awarded a one-year contract at a funded level of $37.9 million by the U.S. Government via the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the NGA's new Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (EGD) program.More>>