Sam Pfeifle

Wed, 01/19/2011 - 15:04

Ovi Maps: New Toy or Potential Business Application? Virtual fly-throughs of major cities might get the mainstream thinking about 3-D data and applications

Wed, 05/04/2011 - 10:14

The web is buzzing about Nokia’s Ovi Maps—and rightly so. The new 3-D interface the company has debuted, which allows you to take amazing 3-D fly-throughs of some of the world’s most beautiful cities, is a revelation. If you haven’t played with it…

SCDS Scans the Church of the Nativity New MetaDataX software used to manage massive point-cloud and 3-D imaging data for global team

Wed, 03/09/2011 - 04:30

With stakeholders that include the Palestinian National Authority, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Authorities, it’s hard to overestimate the religious and political importance of the…

Is Stationary Scanning Becoming Obsolete? Speed, versatility, and mobility challenge traditional surveying techniques

Wed, 01/19/2011 - 15:04

One of the topics that drew the most interest at the recently completed SPAR Europe conference, held at the RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam, was that of mobile scanning and mapping. What kind of accuracy can you expect? How fast can you drive?…