Archive for the ‘geovisualization’ Category
Intergraph Works to Stay on Top of Technology Trends #intergraph2010
Mark Doherty, CTO of Intergraph’s Security, Government and Industry (SG&I) division related details on the company’s view on technology trends and the company’s approach to the markets that they serve. Spatial data infrastructure is a growing issue, with kudos to the European INSPIRE initiative for raising awareness. While the initiative is focused at the national [...]
Intergraph Adds 3D to their GeoMedia Product #intergraph2010
Intergraph will launch a new 3D capability within their GeoMedia product in the fourth quarter of this year. The 3D capability is an add-on component that will add the capability to view and manipulated 3D models via another desktop window. The tight integration with GeoMedia means that the learning curve will be very quick for [...]
“Data Centric” Drive at the Heart of Intergraph’s Success
R. Halsey Wise, chairman, president and CEO of Intergraph kicked off the company’s weather-delayed user conference with an emphasis on turning their innovations into opportunities for economic success during challenging times. The high production quality of the main stage, with multiple screens, lights and booming bass sounds, drove home a presentation of customers “that see [...]
Documented Landscape Changes in New Orleans
The New York Times has a really neat interactive feature that documents the change in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. There are stacked images and commentary for the transformation of certain addresses, but the really cool part is the video tour from spot to spot that is [...]
Documented Landscape Changes in New Orleans
The New York Times has a really neat interactive feature that documents the change in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. There are stacked images and commentary for the transformation of certain addresses, but the really cool part is the video tour from spot to spot that is [...]
New Jersey Approaches Total Buildout
Geospatial analysis of New Jersey land development over the past two decades by Rutgers and Rowan universities show that the state’s sprawl is approaching completion. Their analysis indicates that the state has just one million acres left of developable land after the most active development period the state had seen between 1986 and 2007. The [...]
How creepy does the use of geospatial technology need to get before there’s a major backlash?
With the school year started, I embellished a description of the parent web portal at my sons’ school, indicating that in addition to providing us feedback on assignments and tracking their performance, there were also sensors throughout the school that would track and report their movements and could tell if they were paying attention. My [...]
A Compelling Vision of an Augmented 3D City Interface
The trend toward overlaying our physical space with information is gaining ground, and there are a lot of different examples of what this future will look and feel like. Researcher Keiichi Matsuda provides a very compelling vision in the following video of what that future interface might look like, and he presents it in 3D. [...]
Analyzing Job Types and Geography
The Martin Prosperity Institute, a business policy and management research group at the University of Toronto, has recently conducted a survey of Toronto workers, focusing on their geographic spread across the city, and their connection to transit. The research takes a strong look at the service class of workers that make up a large majority [...]
BBC News Shows Urban Growth Over Time
The rate of urban growth over the past fifty years has been remarkable. America lead the way in the 1950s, and Asia is rapidly concentrating today. The BBC offers an interactive timeline map that allows us to visualize this trend over the past fifty years. By 2005, most industrial countries’ urban-rural population balance has stabilized [...]