Geoff Zeiss and Dr. Sakura Shinoaki

Geoff Zeiss tracks the contribution of geospatial technology to the digitalization of the construction and energy industries on his Between The Poles blog and other media. His area of special focus is locating, mapping, and sharing information about underground utility infrastructure. Dr. Sakura Shinoaki graduated from Tokyo University, Dep. of Mathematical Engineering & Information Physics in 1967. He received the doctor degree of engineering for his study of Geospatial Information System from the University of Tokyo in 1993. In Tokyo Gas , the largest Gas company in Japan, he developed TUMSY (Total Utility Mapping System), a versatile GIS engine in 1983 and from 1984 to 1990, digitized 30,000 drawings of gas mains, services and topography. He also built GIS database ,linked to 8 million Customer Information DB and developed various applications from network analysis to gas marketing.