Monthly Archives: March 2015
What is Civil BIM?
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Dewberry Civil Engineers Cody Pennetti and Meagan Judge, along with Senior Applications Specialist Cyndy Davenport, explain how site/civil engineers are using civil BIM to showcase complex information in a familiar way.
Ordnance Survey: Finding a Way
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Ordnance Survey is very proud to be introducing a refreshed visual identity. Take a look at how much we've changed in our 224 years.
Living History: The John Feathers Map Collection
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LAPL Map Librarian Glen Creason tells the tale of an amazing hidden map collection that doubled the library's archive in a single day. http://lareviewofbooks.org/av/
3_26 Infrastructure Broadcast (Urban Sprawl, Climate Change and More)
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This Infrastructure-themed GeoSpatial Stream broadcast discusses a new report on the varied negative impacts of urban sprawl; an article in Informed Infrastructure about the effects of climate change on aging infrastructure; a summary of recent infrastructure spending; industry news from Esri, Topcon Positioning Group, Digi-Star, Space Foundation, Taylor Devices and Trimble; efforts from URISA's GISCorp in disaster-stricken Vanuatu; and more.
Smart Mapping from Esri
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Smart Mapping is an exciting new capability in ArcGIS Online that will change how you make maps.
“Mapping the Universe” with Daniel Eisenstein
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Galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe. Instead, they group into stringy filaments that span hundreds of millions of light-years. How did such structure evolve from the bland primordial soup that followed the Big Bang? New clues are coming from an ambitious mapping project, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has measured the distance to galaxies halfway across the observable universe. Daniel Eisenstein is director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
