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COVID-19 is Showing How Smart Cities Protect Citizens
I feel like there is a before COVID and an after COVID with citizens’ feelings for Smart City technology. Now there is an election tomorrow in the United States that will probably dictate how this all...
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Apple’s Digital Twin is All About Augmented Reality
Now before we get too far, Apple has not created anything close to a Digital Twin as we know them. But what they have done is created an easy way to import your building models into Apple Maps. Apple...
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Moving Towards a Digital Twin Ecosystem
Smart Cities really start to become valuable when they integrate with Digital Twins. Smart Cities do really well with transportation networks and adjusting when things happen. Take, for example,...
View ArticleDigital Twins and Unreal Engine
I’ve had a ton of experience with Unity and Digital Twins but I have been paying attention to Unreal Engine. I think the open nature of Unity is probably more suited for the current Digital Twin...
View ArticleI’m Here at HERE
Last Tuesday I started at HERE Technologies with the Professional Services group in the Americas. I’ve probably used HERE and their legacy companies data and services for most of my career so this is...
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GeoJSON Ballparks and MLB Minor League Realignment
**UPDATE** – See the plan. Boy, where to start? First, for those who haven’t been following, this happened over the winter. Major League Baseball announced on Friday (February 12, 2021) a new plan for...
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GeoJSON Ballparks as JSON
In a way it is good that Sean Gillies doesn’t follow me anymore. Because I can hear his voice in my head as I was trying to do something really stupid with the project. But Sheldon helps frame what I...
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Arrays in GeoJSON
So my last post was very positive. I figured out how to relate the teams that share a stadium with the stadium itself. This was important because I wanted to eliminate the redundant points that were...
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Unreal and Unity are the new Browsers
Someone asked me why I hadn’t commented on Cesium and Unreal getting together. Honestly , no reason. This is big news honestly. HERE, where I work, is teaming up with Unity to bring the Unity SDK and...
View ArticleAre Conferences Important Anymore?
Hey SOTM is going on, didn’t even know. The last SOTM I went to was in 2013 which was a blast. But I have to be honest, not only did this slip my mind, none of my feeds highlighted it to me. Not only...
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GIS and Monitors
If there is one constant in my GIS career, it is my interest in the monitor I’m using. Since the days of being happy for a “flat screen” Trinitron monitor to now with curved flat screens, so much has...
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A GIS Degree
My son decided to change majors from biodesign to GIS. I had a short moment when I almost told him not to bring all this on himself but then thought differently. I could use my years of experience to...
View ArticleMoving…
I’m not saying I’ll never post here again, but I think this blog has run its course. Follow me at http://jamesfee.org. Part of this is, what do I do about twitter after some nutty billionaire ruins it...
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Moving Towards a Digital Twin Ecosystem
Smart Cities really start to become valuable when they integrate with Digital Twins. Smart Cities do really well with transportation networks and adjusting when things happen. Take, for example,...
View Article19 Years and 2,362 Posts
I mean we’ve been saying it since Elon had bought Twitter, but the deed is done. The social network formerly known as Twitter has officially adopted X.com for all its core systems. That means typing...
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Impact of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on Geospatial Innovation
We were talking (or typing) on Slack last week and I was asked what I thought was the single greatest software innovation while I’ve been working. A ton of things came to mind from from Apple’s...
View ArticleARC/INFO Manuals
If there is one regret in my life, it is that I didn’t steal the ARC/INFO manual binders from one of the jobs I used to use ARC/INFO. I’ve had an eBay search going for years in hope that someone will...
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Apple Maps Gets Topographical
GIS and Topo maps go hand in hand. From the classic Quad maps, to the National Geographic TOPO! product, to just basic Esri Topo map services, these topographic maps have been part of GIS since the...
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Cable Management
One of the best parts of my iPhone 15 Pro is that it has a USB-C port on it. While I appreciate the lightning port, I have just grown so tired of having to manage so many different ports while...
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