Designers of large projects, such as a highway expansion, a new shopping mall, a sewer or water lineupgrade project, or a gas line replacement, are often presented with unique challenges – including those that lie beneath the earth’s surface. Although not seen from a casual, above-ground glance, there is a world of assets and critical infrastructure that exist underground. When new projects are in the early phases of development, it is vital...

What is personal privacy worth? It is certainly with different amounts to you as an individual, versus to companies that may potentially violate it. And how much is it worth to society as a whole in terms of protecting the last few shreds of human dignity left in a digital world? The FTC recently fined Google $7 million for Google’s admitted Street View privacy violations. France fined Google for the same violation in 2011, 100,000 Euros (approximately $140,000 U.S.)—the largest ever French privacy fine. Last year the FTC issued its largest ever civil fine of $22.5 million to Google for bypassing the privacy protections of the Safari web browser.

Farmers are conservative adopters of technology; however, where there is measured benefit, they are quick to adapt. Precision agriculture technologies have been around for more than 20 years, but adoption by farmers has been variable due to a number of economic and technical factors. Within the last five years, the location technologies of precision agriculture,

Kim Geomatics was engaged by the GeoConnections Program of Natural Resources Canada to assess the use and benefits of the core components of the
Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, and to assess the benefits and value of accessing and sharing geo-information over the Internet. We assessed eight public and private sector projects across Canada and one project in Australia that ranged from wanting to improve operational efficiency, to research and analysis, to access to timely and quality geospatial data such as Earth imagery.