First held in 1999 in the US, GIS Day has evolved into a global public awareness initiative which annually takes place in November and promotes geography and GIS technology and applications. The event coincides with the US’s Geography Awareness Week, and this year the United States Senate has recognised 15 November as “National GIS Day”. […]
The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) released its Quality of Life (QoL) 2017/2018 survey with preliminary results in November 2018, the latest in a series of five such surveys. The survey, which covers three metros and several other local municipalities, was conducted between October 2017 and August 2018 and had 24 889 respondents. It included 248 questions […]
Geospatial data company AfriGIS’s Spatial and Data Workshop, which took place on 6 December 2018, explored updates to its datasets, the role of GIS in an organisation, and technology ethics. AfriGIS’s Brian Civin spoke about technology ethics and sustainability. That we can do something doesn’t mean that we should, he said. He reminded the audience […]
The World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) and BuildingSmart have signed an agreement to enhance the usage of BIM standards in civil infrastructure and to link it to location-based technologies. Their collaboration aims to spread awareness around GIS and BIM technologies to improve understanding, support and application of jointly addressed best practices, standard areas and projects […]
Deforestation and forest degradation are threatening biodiversity and contributing to climate change havoc and global warming. As consumer awareness grows, so too does the demand to know the origins of wood in the products they buy. A new ISO standard for tracing wood back to its sources will help to provide this information. With many […]
BIM Institute founder and expert, Vaughan Harris, recently published his first book on building information modelling (BIM), titled “It’s your move”. The book is a collection of articles, advice and interviews conducted by Harris, who is an outspoken voice in the think tanks and leadership development for building information modelling on the African continent and […]
The University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have embarked on a partnership to establish an Integrated Education, National Certification, National Reference and Research Laboratories Facility to the value of R280-million in the area of […]
A new set of international standards has just been published to enable BIM across projects and borders, benefitting the industry as a whole. The standard set is available from any national ISO member or through the ISO Store. More construction means a greater need for efficient ways of working, which is why the 3D model-based […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on promoting the power of geospatial and location-based technologies to government, markets, and industries worldwide. Location has been a powerful tool that has improved decision-making across the public and private sectors, but has not yet […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organisations to respond to the call for participation for its Testbed-15 Innovation Initiative. Testbed-15 aims to explore new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing with a focus on data-centric security, federated clouds, service and application discovery, portrayal, machine learning, and delta updates. OGC Testbeds are part of OGC’s […]
