TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2015 – The City of Hamilton’s corporate culture is built on courageous change, collective ownership, sensational service and empowered employees. The City fosters this culture with the help of technology. Since adopting ArcGIS, Esri’s…

Avon Park Selects Innovyze Advanced GIS-Centric Smart Water Network Modeling Technology
Broomfield, Colo., June 30, 2015—Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure,…

Synchronized Cities: Leveraging Sensors to Optimize Urban Activity
The experience of a synchronous city is quickly becoming a calculated strategy rather than an occasional coincidence. Urban inhabitants use smartphones…
The OGC Seeks Public Participation in Development of CityGML 3.0
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Membership seeks organizations and individuals to participate in the development of the next major version of the OGC City Geography Markup Language (CityGML). See the Call for Participation at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/119.…

San Francisco Officials Approve Plan to Charge Tech Companies for Worker Shuttles
City transportation officials approved a new pilot plan Tuesday to regulate private employee shuttles operated by tech giants such as Facebook and Google and charge a fee for the vehicles to use public bus stops. The shuttles, which transport thousands of…

311GIS Aids Salisbury Citizens in Reporting Concerns
Geographic Technologies Group (GTG) welcomes Salisbury, N.C. to the community of 311GIS users. 311GIS is an easy-to-use online solution for citizen issue reporting. Goldsboro, NC is currently using 311GIS for web, Android and IOS platforms. 311GIS is an…
China's Mountain Moving Project Gets Underway
In what is being billed as the largest "mountain-moving project" in Chinese history, one of China's biggest construction firms will spend £2.2bn to flatten 700 mountains levelling the area Lanzhou, allowing developers to build a new metropolis on the outskirts…