Tag: OpenStreetMap

Nov 06 2010

Incite innovates

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
6 November 2010

Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Incite is developing a lot of new and innovative functionality, and – having grown its business in south-east Asia – is, as I predicted last year, inching towards establishing a presence in Europe. My latest meeting (previous – post) with Michael Baker, Incite’s general manager (technology), included a first encounter …

Aconex, agile, Android, API, application programming interface, Asite, Australia, Bing Maps, Blackberry, buildings, CAD, civil works, cMob, Construction, construction collaboration technology, correspondence, drag-and-drop, drawing register, Drop Zone, email client, Europe, file sharing, Gartner, geo-location, Germany, Google Earth, high-resolution aerial images, highways, Hong Kong, hosting, Incite, Incite Keystone, India, Indonesia, infrastructure, integration, interfaces, iPad, iPhone, JSON, Kalexo Teamwork, Keystone Toolbox, Leighton Holdings, licensing, Malaysia, map data, metadata, Michael Baker, Microsoft, mining, mobile, Nearmap, Nielsen, open-source, OpenStreetMap, Outlook, photographs, PivotViewer, probity, quality, rail, rationalisation, Remix, reporting, RESTful, RIM, SaaS, Scott Crane, Sean Kaye, service level agreements, Silverlight, Site Clean-Up, SmartBuilder, social stream, south-east Asia, Spatial, support, Sword CTSpace, tablet devices, tendering, timeline, UK, users, water supply, Web 2.0, Windows Mobile 7, XML
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Mar 09 2010

Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Web 2.0
9 March 2010

On 25 February, Martin Brown and I talked to the Black Country Constructing Excellence Club about use of social media in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. We both mentioned the virtual world of Second Life and, being in the West Midlands, it seemed natural to highlight the expertise of Birmingham-based Daden (whose efforts …

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Mar 05 2009

Information modelling for greener buildings

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Sustainability, Web 2.0
5 March 2009

Information modelling for greener buildings was the title of an excellent seminar at Ecobuild in London yesterday afternoon on building information modelling (BIM). Well chaired and introduced by Richard Saxon (ex-BDP), the session also featured presentations from: James Warne (environmental engineering director, BDP) on BIM and sustainability Nick Nisbet (AEC3) on BuildingSMART, IFCs and SMARTcodes …

Adrian Dobson, AEC3, Axis Design Architects, BDP, Be2camp, BIM, blogging, building information modelling, BuildingSMART, Claire Sinclair, EcoBuild, GPS, IFCs, James Warne, London, Moblogs, Nick Nisbet, OpenStreetMap, Pachube, phonecams, recession, RIBA, RIBA knowledge communities, Richard Saxon, Rob Annable, RSS, Slider Studio, SMARTcodes, Social Media, sustainability, Twitter, user-generated content, YouCanPlan
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Jan 08 2009

Geographic information in a web-based world

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Web 2.0
8 January 2009

I am spending the afternoon at a CASA conference (sponsored by the AGI) at University College London talking about use of geographic information, which promises lots of talk about mash-ups, re-use of data. 1.45pm: First up, Richard Milton demonstrating GMapCreator and MapTube – applications for publishing data to Google Maps, showing, for example, maps relating …