Bear with me a moment for an old-school story time. It matters, especially if you find yourself regularly frustrated when in search of accurate as-built plans. On October 30th, 1970 an episode of The Brady Bunch titled “Call Me Irresponsible” aired. The iconic...
The 1990 cinematic adventure and camp movie classic Tremors could not have happened if the location was properly mapped. All of the sand worms would have been perfectly annotated and aggregated, from tail to tail. Because we’ve proven in the 21st century that although...
The art of visualization goes back over 200 years, with studies on modern visualization techniques dating back to at least the 1960s. Jacques Bertin’s Sémiologie Graphique (Semiology of Graphics), which was published in 1969, was the first systematic treatment...
The management of our cities and towns, interwoven with IT advancements, is becoming more complex than ever before. From buried lines to a complex web of fragile utility assets, both above and below ground, the delicate dance to manage these infrastructure assets...
100 years ago, towns were often split up by wards, and what was below was left to antiquated as-builts and exploratory digging, which we now call potholing or daylighting. These methods can be inefficient and often dangerous, especially in coal regions. Times evolve,...
Managing utilities has always been a task for society to solve. Consider how we light the world, for instance. Early societies used natural gas which was led through bamboo pipes from volcano gas leaks to the streets of Peking. This gas served as a fuel for street...