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Highlighting Spatial Planning and Development at FIG2020
Spatial planning – the focus of commission 8 – is logically much related to the subtheme ‘integrated land and water management’ of the FIG Working Week 2020. From a planners’ perspective it ...
5 Questions to... Håkan Engman, Bentley Systems
What makes the digital city so relevant for geospatial surveyors, and what lies ahead for 3D city modelling? We asked these and a couple of other questions to Håkan Engman, the director of business d...
Expanding Horizons: Geospatial Predictions for 2020 and Beyond
From New York to Dubai to Myanmar, more smart cities are springing up across the globe. As more countries start to digitally transform, the futuristic cities and state-of-the-art gadgets that once be...
FIG Working Week 2020: Make the World a Better Place
From 10-14 May 2020, surveyors and geospatial experts will meet for the Working Week of FIG, the international federation for surveyors. The conference theme is 'Smart Surveyors for Land and Water Man...
Changing the Game with Mixed Reality for Construction Planning and Operations
Construction teams are constantly looking for ways to improve safety and productivity on-site. The immersive visualization of Bentley’s SYNCHRO XR application with HoloLens 2 provides a quick and ea...
3D City Model and Augmented Reality in Munich
The city of Munich launched an innovation competition and provided developmental support to the winner, Holo-Light. This ultimately resulted in the development of an award-winning augmented reality-ba...
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Varanasi Smart City 3D digital twin project wins Indian urban development award
Genesys International Corporation Ltd has announced that its Varanasi Smart City 3D Digital Twin project has been awarded the SKOCH Award (Gold) 2025 in the Urban Development category under the e-Gove...
Mapping a new town with 3D digital twin technology
Skytech Cambridge has captured more than 40,000 high-resolution aerial photographs to put a new housing development on the map in the UK. The company then used the images to build a true-to-scale 3D d...
Geospatial governance as a national asset in Côte d’Ivoire
In a recent interview with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Fernand Bale, director of CIGN within BNETD and former co-chair of UN-GGIM, outlined national priorities and global ambitions in Côte ...
Norway poised to lead in 3D city modelling with detailed vector data
Detailed map data could soon bring Norwegian cities to life in three dimensions. A new pilot project suggests that Norway is exceptionally well placed to create realistic digital city models, thanks t...
Terria to support delivery of Western Australia’s Spatial Digital Twin
Terria has been selected, alongside Amristar, to support Jacobs in delivering the Spatial Digital Twin for the Western Australian Government’s Spatial WA Program. Under the initial delivery contract...
Bentley adds reality modelling to Cesium and brings infrastructure data to life
Bentley Systems has expanded Cesium’s capabilities by introducing new reality modeling services within the Cesium platform, strengthening its open ecosystem for the built and natural environment. Th...
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