My geofumadas
Curiosities, investigations and innovations
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Geofumadas - on trends in this digital moment
How Going Digital Can Reverse Your Engineering Challenges Connected data environments don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk on your construction projects. Almost all engineering, architecture and construction professionals…
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Geo-Engineering & TwinGeo Magazine - Second Edition
We have lived through an interesting moment of digital transformation. In every discipline, the changes are going beyond the simple abandonment of paper to the simplification of processes in search of efficiency and better results. The sector of…
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Re-defining the Geo-Engineering Concept
We live in a special moment at the confluence of disciplines that have been segmented for years. Surveying, architectural design, line drawing, structural design, planning, construction, marketing. To give an example of what were traditionally flows; linear for simple projects, iterative…
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Are we really immersed in an "innovative" process when it comes to 3D Spatial?
“The push of a button has the potential to open another dimension”, writes Muthukumar Kumar, almost at the end of his article, referring specifically to the creation of 3D environments, their usefulness, importance and future. Note that to talk about the future, about…
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The employability oriented to the GIS. Fiction versus reality
After reading an article that begins by asking what GIS employers are really looking for, I was wondering to what extent these conclusions can be extrapolated to our home countries whose realities may be similar or different (perhaps very…
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Accurate purpose-dependent cadastre - trend, synergy, technique, or nonsense?
Back in 2009 I elaborated the systematization of the evolution of the Cadastre of a municipality, which in its natural logic suggested a progress between the reasons why it originally adopts the cadastre for tax purposes, and how that…
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… And geobloggers gathered here…
Someone had to materialize that idea of sitting in the same space, a group of totally different people in personality, thought and cultural context, but added to the variant of being Spanish-speakers, they are intensely passionate about what happens...
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What will land administration look like in the future? - vision of Cadastre 2034
Proposing what land administration could look like in 2034 does not seem like an easy idea, if we see how many changes have taken place in the last 20 years. However, the exercise is a second attempt at what has already been done 20…
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The SINAP National System of Property Administration
The National Property Administration System (SINAP) is a technological platform that integrates all the information related to the physical and regulatory resources of the nation, where the different public, private and individual actors record all the transactions…
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Recommendations when implementing LADM
In several of the projects that I have participated in, I have witnessed that the confusion caused by LADM is not necessarily associated with understanding it as an ISO standard, but rather with isolating its conceptual scope of application from its mechanization scenario...
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LADM - As Unique Model of the Land Administration Domain - Colombia
Summary of a presentation by Golgi Alvarez and Kaspar Eggenberger at the Andean Geomatics Congress in Bogotá, in June 2016. Requirement for the Multipurpose Cadastre With the entry into force of the National Development Plan 2014-2018 and the creation…
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Blockchain and Bitcoin applied to the Land Administration
At an information technology conference I was approached by the editor of a magazine, who asked me about the application of this type of technology in the area of Land Registry, Cadastre and Property Administration in general…
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BIM - The world I would have dreamed of 20 years ago
20 years later, I can only associate BIM as the evolution that represented for that time leaving the drawing board and the tracing paper for the CAD files. That was an impressive evolution, considering that he came from being a cartoonist...
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BIM - the irreversible trend of CAD
In our context of Geo-Engineering, the term BIM (Building Information Modeling) is no longer new, which allows different real-life objects to be modeled, not only in their graphical representation but also in their different stages of…
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6 aspects to consider in the Integration of the Registry - Cadastre
Making the Cadastre and the Real Property Registry work together is currently one of the most interesting challenges in the modernization processes of property rights systems. The problem is usually...
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Registry and Cadastre in the context of a National Transactional System
Every day, countries focus on electronic government trends, where processes are simplified in search of providing a better service to citizens, as well as reducing margins for corruption or unnecessary bureaucracy. Are…
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Traditional topography vrs. LiDAR. Accuracy, time and costs.
Could doing a job with LiDAR be more precise than with conventional surveying? If it reduces time, by what percentage? How much does it reduce costs? Times have definitely changed. I remember when Felipe, a topographer who did my work...
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The intrinsic georeference
When we read the different theories that support the communication that cartography entails, both as a science to represent geographic phenomena, and as an art to give this information the necessary aesthetics, we realize that the moment in which we live…
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