Tuesday’s press release from Autodesk regarding its new relationship with Pitney Bowes Software (PBS, the new name as of January 1, 2012 for Pitney Bowes Business Insights) raised many questions. Joe Francica and I spoke with James Buckley, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Customer Data & Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software and Rich Humphrey, Director of Civil Infrastructure in the AEC Division at Autodesk on Tuesday night to try to tease out some answers.
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 03:18 PM |
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You may have seen its pre-launch tweets, posts on Facebook and elsewhere but now this new social network is live. This morning I asked for its elevator pitch. Here it is:
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 08:04 AM |
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“Thanks for pointing it out, I will let the team know so they can be aware of the issues, and I’ve flagged it to be corrected.”
That's the response of a Google Australia spokesman quoted in the Armidale Express, when asked about the error indicating closure of Pacific Highway which some say has been online for three months. I'm heartened to learn some folks are skeptical and called the local transit authority to confirm it was an error.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 06:48 AM |
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The East Hampton Village (NY) Police Chief Jerry Larson lobbied village trustees on Thursday morning for $55,000 over three years to improve the system.points to outdated maps as a threat to public safety, Updates to the 911 system must go through the county and updates from 2006 have still not been made. So, the Village will buy a new GIS.
His [Larson's] department wants to purchase a new Geographic Information Systems mapping system from ESRI, a firm that is the largest designer of public safety mapping systems.
- East Hampton Patch
The Athens City Council (Alabama) is working out its redistricting. Nothing new there. What it? The title of the GIS person: "GIS Engineer Micah Cochran,..."
- News-Courier
South Australia now has statewide online fire planning maps. They are used by fire staff for planning and to let the public know about prescribed burns. They are far better than old paper maps says Department of Environment acting senior fire management officer Tina Besednjak.
The old paper map wasn't interactive, you couldn't zoom in and it wasn't really put on the website. Now we can put it out there and people can jump online anytime.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 06:47 AM |
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With no warning from either side comes the bizarre news that Autodesk, specifically the infrastrucure/BIM part is hooking up with Pitney Bowes "to help infrastructure owners and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design, build, manage lifecycle of infrastructure."
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by Adena Schutzberg on 01/10 at 05:05 AM |
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