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Director of Technology, Autodesk
Geoff Zeiss has 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and over ten years experience working with utilities, communications, and public works in enterprise geospatial IT around the world. Geoff is a Director of Technology at Autodesk whose focus is on designing geospatial solutions for large enterprises worldwide. Geoff is a frequent speaker at GITA events in North America, Australia, and Japan as well as other geospatial industry events around the world.
November 23, 2006
Enterprise Applications
I've just spent a few days at Map Africa and this has been a very interesting conference. First of all it has not been a traditional GIS conference. There has been a strong focus on capacity building, specifically in Africa...
November 13, 2006
Enterprise Applications
In the last month or so there has been some interesting developments with respect to open source and GIS. I'm including a link to James Fee's blog James Fee on GIS and Open Source where he discusses what he sees...
November 5, 2006
Enterprise Applications / Open Source
A headline on CNET this AM begins When hell freezes over.... What the headline was referring to was the agreement announced by Novell and Microsoft to collaborate to help Microsoft's Windows to work with Novell's Suse Linux, which is open-source....
October 27, 2006
Enterprise Applications / Open Source
As I mentioned in my last blog I have been at Oracle Open World the last few days. The highlight of OOW is usually Larry Ellison's keynote and this year did not disappoint, although this was not a typical Larry...
October 23, 2006
Enterprise Applications / open source geospatial
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has chosen Tyler Mitchell as Executive Director. Tyler will be responsible for the OSGEO's day-to-day operations in support of both development and promotion. Tyler was one of the first in 2004 to recognize the important...
September 29, 2006
Enterprise Applications / open source geospatial
One of the most successful areas of the open source geospatial movement is providing data access APIs and data providers for a wide range of file formats. For example MapServer users are familiar with OGR and GDAL. Frank Warmerdam has...
September 12, 2006
Enterprise Applications
I've been carrying an OQO Model 01+ with a USB GPS around with me on airplanes, hiking, and cross-country skiing for over a year and if there is one thing that has been the single biggest problem, it is battery...
August 3, 2006
Enterprise Applications / open source geospatial
MapGuide Open Source 1.0.1 was released last week. I would suggest that the most interesting thing about this release is that it is the first release to be bundled with Web Studio, the web-based open source tool for developing MapGuide...
August 3, 2006
conferences / Enterprise Applications
GeoWeb 2006 is the outgrowth of an annual conference that used to be called GML Days, but GeoWeb is now much broader than strictly GML. It is also now supported by GITA, which opens the door to a much broader...
July 22, 2006
Enterprise Applications / general infrastructure
Last week I was in Kuala Lumpur attending the 2nd National GIS Conference and Exhibition and I had an opportunity to chat with several utility and telecommunications companies. It brought home how ubiquitous the infrastructure management workflow that I discussed...
June 5, 2006
Enterprise Applications / sharing spatial data
From time to time I plan to invite people who have an interesting perspective (based on real world experience) that reinforces some of the themes that I have been focusing on to contribute to this blog. Sharing spatial data especially...