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City of Vancouver to make data open and accessible where possible
Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software when replacing existing applications.
The CBC News article “Vancouver mulls making itself an ‘open city’” provides some background on the motion.
The City of Vancouver published the text [...]
Ron Lake Interview on Very Spatial
Talking with VerySpatial, Ron Lake shares his view of the GeoWeb as being a digital nervous system for the planet. Mr. Lake explains how the theme for this year’s conference, Cityscapes, was selected to emphasize ways that the GeoWeb can support high value sharing and collaboration of urban infrastructure data around the building of cities. [...]
A View from Over There - India and NSDI
February 19, 2009
Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher of Directions Magazine, recently wrote about his experience in attending the Map World Forum (MWF) in Hyderabad, India. In the article, he quotes from Ron Lake’s talk where Mr. Lake suggested that SDI initiatives should begin at the city level where most of the work of building [...]
GIS Development: March 2009
Professor AR Dasgupta, Managing Editor (Honorary), quotes Ron Lake in his Viewpoint article “The view from over here - India and NSDI”
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GeoWorld: Industry Outlook 2009
GeoWorld December 2009
Issue Date: Industry Outlook 2009 - Full Responses, Posted On: 1/1/2009
Ron Lake, CEO and chairman, Galdos Systems Inc. responds to the questions:
Under uncertain economic times, will geospatial technology be affected, or is it vital enough to not be influenced by outside economic factors?
Are we nearing capacity for our need for remote-sensing data?
Read the full article on their [...]
Submission deadline extended for SWDMNSS 2009
The submission deadline for the 3rd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS 2009) has been extended to March 10, 2009. The workshop is being held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA on June 19, 2009.
Workshop information is [...]
Ron Lake to deliver one of the Keynote Addresses at PetroGIS 2009
Galdos Chairman and CEO, Ron Lake, will deliver one of the keynote addresses at the first PetroGIS conference in Bahrain. The programme agenda is available on the website at http://www.iirme.com/PetroGIS/index.html.
As a Founding Member Of The OGC, and Chairman Of The OGC’s GML Special Interest Group, Mr. Lake also provided the Chairman's Welcome Message http://www.iirme.com/PetroGIS/chairman_letter.html.
Ron Lake blog entry cited in Slashgeo posting
19 February 2009
In an entry following up on the topic of the U.S. Economic Stimulus package and Geospatial Technologies (http://industry.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/18/189259), slashgeo member Satri cites Ron Lake’s blog entry on Economic Recovery and the GeoWeb (http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/555).
GSDI Newsletter - July 2008
In the GIS Tools, Software, Data section of the July 2008 Spatial Data Infrastructure Asia & the Pacific Newsletter (http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters/SDIAPv5n7.pdf), the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association references Ron Lake's blog entry "WFS - Schema Mapping is Key" (http://www.galdosinc.com/archives/525) which explains the key role of schema mapping in the conversion of data between one data model and [...]
B.C. first in Canada to give Google its maps
Internet service will provide full aerial views
Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008
An overhead view of Port Alberni illustrates what can happen when government works with an Internet mapping service.
The right side of the image on this page depicts what Google Earth and Google Maps showed before entering into an agreement with the B.C. [...]