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 . . . → Read More: City of Vancouver to make data open and accessible where possible

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 . . . → Read More: Ron Lake Interview on Very Spatial

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 . . . → Read More: A View from Over There – India and NSDI

Professor AR Dasgupta, Managing Editor (Honorary), quotes Ron Lake in his Viewpoint article “The view from over here – India and NSDI”

Download the PDF file to read the full article: ess_printers_nrcan_gc_ca_20090408_125207 [PDF - 1591 KB]

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 . . . → Read More: GeoWorld: Industry Outlook 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 . . . → Read More: Ron Lake to deliver one of the Keynote Addresses at PetroGIS 2009

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).

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 . . . → Read More: GSDI Newsletter – July 2008