Industry Trends

Find out how your mapping, land development, and GIS projects can benefit from the incorporation of raster data, such as scanned photographs, maps, and drawings, along with vector geometry.

Find out how LandXML—built upon XML—is fast becoming an industry standard for modeling and describing civil engineering and surveying data.

The World Trade Center tragedy has reawakened many businesses to the importance of having a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).

The emergence, popularity, and relatively low cost of handheld communication devices like cell phones, beepers, and PDAs (personal digital assistants) have changed the way architects and engineers work.

Autodesk® Location Services aggregates the technology and services needed to get LBS applications to market quickly, reliably, and cost-effectively.

Find out how the Washington Council of County Surveyors (WCCS) overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to create a database of statewide survey control information.

Increasingly, surveyors handle and analyze more data, in different formats and on more complex projects, all with shorter project timelines. How can technology make this more efficient?