From a recent experiment conducted at a clothing store in a mall, Michel Berthiaume, an associate researcher at the GeoBusiness Group, Universit? de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, discovered something surprising about teenagers. For better or for worse, approximately 80 percent of them are willing to surrender some of their privacy and allow someone to track their movements.
When seconds count, security depends on robust interoperability among all the systems that routinely provide information about the real world to bus drivers, electricians, and everyone else.
These days, it's essential that large construction projects build broad support from a number of stakeholder communities. Communicating the design through a visualization technology is a required step in larger construction projects.
To manage and publish a modern public works map, a GIS specialist in a city's public works department often needs to work through a backlog of field updates and as-built information about the precise locations and details about the city's buildings, roads, bridges, sewer systems, and other infrastructure. Thank goodness the data are readily accessible just across the hall in the city's CAD (computer-aided design) system. The engineers there can take care of sending it on over before lunch.
