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		<title>The Analysis of 3D Data at Multiple Scales Offers Challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke to Fred Limp, the past director of the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies and a gifted geospatial educator and practitioner at the University of Arkansas. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated by the types of projects that Fred works on, and I conducted an interview to delve into the evolution that&#8217;s taking place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Interoperability Greatly Improves Productivity in the Building Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Open Geospatial Consortium and the buildingSMART alliance have just completed a report regarding the software interoperability issues that are faced in the architecture, engineering, construction, and owner operator community. The AECOO Testbed looked at methods to increase efficiency and provide cost savings by more streamlined project processes. Sponsors for the testbed included the architectural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ClearEdge3D Proves the Worth of Their EdgeWise Technology #SPAR2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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At last year&#8217;s SPAR Conference, ClearEdge3D&#8217;s automated extraction of CAD models from point clouds stood out from the crowd as a much needed tool to aid productivity. A telling story of the progression of the productivity shift that has happened with the advent of LIDAR tools is that in the past a large project may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HKS Aptly Names a Data Wrangler Position in Scan to BIM Projects #SPAR2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The worldwide architectural design firm HKS has been doing some impressive large-scale scan to BIM projects. The subject of a presentation at the SPAR Conference was 50 United Nations Plaza in San Francisco, a 360,000 s.f. federal building that was scanned and modeled in three weeks for retrofit preparation for a large federal client.
This detailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Labs Focuses on High Resolution Virtual Reality #SPAR2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alice Labs is a young company that began last year as a spin-off from university research in The Netherlands at the Technical University of Delft. They are focused on developing a toolset to enable users to get reality into the virtual world in high quality.
Studio Clouds is their product with a streaming engine that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIS Allows Us to View Our Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a New York Times blog post today, design and architecture columnist Allison Arieff writes about the continued issue of empty space and inefficiency in our built world, pointing to GIS as an answer to solve these issues.
&#8220;G.I.S. allows us to literally view our place both globally and in a hyperlocal context. That level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dynamic Duo of Data and Dimensions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always good fun to talk to Don Murray and Dale Lutz of Safe Software. Their company continues to improve their spatial extract, transform and load software, and they&#8217;ve further extended the functionality into 3D with their latest FME 2010 release. I interviewed the two recently, and we touched on a large number of improvements [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangermond Discusses the Integration of GIS and BIM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Dangermond answered some questions that I&#8217;ve been wondering about since the GeoDesign Summit a few weeks ago. The concept of GeoDesign is an exciting development whose time has come thanks to technology advancement, but the fit with other vendors in the design space was puzzling me. Following is his response to a question about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fresh Start that GeoDesign Offers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working to synthesize all the ideas that were shared this past week in Redlands, Calif. at the first GeoDesign Summit. One pervading feeling that I have is that this new term, and definition of practice, provides an opportunity to be more inclusive. Currently, the term GIS is largely owned by one company, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GeoDesign as a Return to the Potential of GIS</title>
		<link>http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/geodesign-as-a-return-to-the-potential-of-gis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GeoDesign Summit is taking place this week in Redlands in ESRI&#8217;s new building. There are roughly 250 movers and shakers in academia, industry and non profits that represent landscape architecture, architecture, engineering, planning and geospatial training. This is a &#8220;who&#8217;s who&#8221; of important people that have all contributed to the current state of geospatial [...]]]></description>
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