ZKDEM…
While looking at Flightradar during the QANTAS eclipse I noticed another aircraft with a clever registration. I guess you need to be a CAD/GIS and Aviation geek to see why ZKDEM is so suitable for an aerial survey aircraft.
GPS and Mapping
My Road To BIM
ESRI & Autodesk Alliance announced at #AU2017
Fascinating to see Autodesk and ESRI announce an alliance at the Autodesk University Technology Keynote. In my previous life at the Airport the gulf between GIS and BIM was a real frustration. Look forward to seeing what this brings. Sent from Outlook for Android More information here: https://www.autodesk.
ESRI
Has Google purchased Esri?
Did you wonder why — as of January 20, 2015* — Google Earth Pro licenses were made free? I don’t use Google Earth often and, although happy not to have to deal with disappearing Earths, didn’t really think much about it. Last week I got a link to a blog
CAD and BIM General
Farewell to The Warehouse, Hello Auckland International Airport
It isn’t unusual to look forward to a long weekend but Easter 2015 will be particularly memorable for me. Last Thursday was my last day working for The Warehouse Limited (TWL) after seventeen, would have been eighteen in July, years. Tomorrow, the first day of a new adventure. Leaving
NeatStreets + Smartphone = Smarter Safer Neighbourhood
I’ve been using this app for a while and find it really does help get things done. NeatStreets combines smartphone geo-location, photos and social reporting to make it really easy to report community hazards. Categories include Litter, Graffiti, Flood Damage, Footpath, Parking, Potholes, Signage, Traffic & Street Lights, Trolleys
GPS and Mapping
No escaping the BIM, even on holiday
Several years ago I blogged about finding Cadman Rd in Auckland & wondered if there were any place names with BIM (Building Information Model). Google maps showed just one in New Zealand: Bims Rd in a fairly isolated part of the South Island near Nelson Lakes. By chance I had
Cycling Directions now in Google Maps New Zealand
Yay, Google Maps now has cycling directions for New Zealand and Map Maker tools so we can add updates. Below you can see Google Maps suggested route from my suburb to the city. It routes cycles to the North Western Motorway (or freeway for US readers) in preference to a
New Zealand Google Maps (and Earth) get Traffic!
There aren’t many people in New Zealand but we have more cars/head than most (~2.5 million cars/4 million people). Then consider not far off half the population live in one city and it is squeezed onto a narrow isthmus between two harbours*. So we do have
New Zealand is on the move, to Topo50
If you are in New Zealand, and use maps or GPS, be aware that a new coordinate system may impact where you are at!
Driving with Shaan?
TomTom recently upgraded their iPhone GPS application to “speak” road names rather than just generic instructions like “Turn Left, One Hundred Metres”. It uses a human voice combined with “computerised reading” to pronounce the street names. I tried it tonight on the way home from work and discovered TomTom seems
CAD and BIM General
Seems I have been to BIM!
In the CADMAN Rd post I asked if anyone had been to BIM? Thanks to a vigilent reader who spotted a feature on the map closer than BIM, West Virginia I found out I have been to BIM, well Bims Rd. Even...
I've been to CADMAN AVE, anyone been to BIM?
I attended an IPD/BIM meeting and thought it rather ironic that, due to stupid planning rules that allow you to build several new multi-story office blocks with insufficient visitor parking, I found a park in nearby Cadman Ave (No Exit)*. I wondered if any New Zealand place names have