Author Archive for Andrea Connell
Article from Sat. March 16, 2013 Globe and Mail news section. I’m optimistic the fed’s acknowledgement of underfunding for municipalities will trigger a wave of investment for our crumbling cities.
The first thing that municipalities must do is create a detailed inventory of their infrastructure assets (pipes, hydrants, etc). This is done with a combination of CAD and Geographic Information Systems.
Creating an inventory is just the first step not a complete system. Municipalities also need the purchasing, work order and maintenance components to manage their infrastructure.
Systems such as Maintenance Connection, provide GIS/CAD inventory in conjunction with the entire asset management system.
Arrow Geomatics Inc. have teamed up with Maintenance Connection Canada to build a complete package of GIS (inventory) and Asset Management.
Contact:
Gordon Luckett [email protected]
What is a ContourGPS camera?
A small light full HD video camera with GPS capabilities. The GPS adds speed, location and elevation to the picture. The GPS receiver automaps the three essentials up to four times per second. The GPS synchronizes with your video and displays a second by second replay via Google Maps, Bing or OpenStreetMaps. All within the MapGuide/AIMS 2012 environment.
1. Upload Video and Associated GPS file to web server (code loads the GPS points into SQL Server and creates path in map).
2. Video list in Interface and choose video to watch.
3. Video plays and animated point follows the path in sync with the video.
Mobile viewers for iPad
Gordon’s been using the Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server 2012 (AIMS/MapGuide) mobileviewer; customizing mobile viewers for the iPad with out-of-the-box Open Layers code to search and draw points using Google Geocoder API.
There Be Dragons - Uncharted Internet Mapping 