Innovation, Industry, Opinion
Steven Garlinge
Bad Pizza

KODA started thinking about how often we've been delivered "bad pizza" in our professional lives, in our careers, and on our projects...and decides to call Customer Service for some clarification.

Bad Pizza
Reminiscing
Steven Garlinge
Making it Look Easy

A great effort by the Geodata KODA team in the last month prompts this blog post. For the previous two weekends we've had extra-curricula outings in which we've achieved some great things. Some days it's easy to overlook our achievements - not today

Making it Look Easy
KODA News, Reminiscing, Software, Innovation
Steven Garlinge
Roadheader the 13th

You know you're working in an interesting industry when the currents of the week push you to spend a couple of late night hours searching for some 'standard' dimensions for humans to try to justify the placement of a datalogger in a certain location on site.

Roadheader the 13th
Steven Garlinge
The Tansley Effect

As a repeat reader of Frank Herbert's Dune, I've found myself intrigued by a particular phrase written towards the end of the book.

I think that the phrase intrigued me because I'd never heard of it before... A rather trivial reason for liking a statement, I know, but I think there is something more to it...

The Tansley Effect
Innovation, Reminiscing, Techniques
Steven Garlinge
Technique Trumps Technology

Sitting here at MeatStock, doing the dawn shift, lighting the fire and tending to our 30 day dry aged briskets I'd just laid down, I started thinking about all the different ways I could apply what I do at work to cooking a great brisket. Was this madness? Or worth the musing?

Technique Trumps Technology

Software

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Atari, Boot Strapping, ET and Friday the 13th

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Atari, Boot Strapping, ET and Friday the 13th

This is blog post number 13, and possibly serendipitous (or ominous) timing given that Friday the 13th is upon us this week. Koda spent a bit of time this week reflecting on the last fortnight, and everything that has happened, hasn’t happened, and which we are waiting to happen.

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New York and Open_TS

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New York and Open_TS

What an exciting week it has been! A visit to Ralph Perez of New York Geomatics, followed by a look at some new monitoring solutions that answer the question: "It's moved, so now what?", some custom programming and some thoughts an open protocol for total stations.

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12d Model and KODA

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12d Model and KODA

12D MODEL RESELLER - USA

KODA is excited to announce that it has been appointed as a Reseller for 12d Model – Surveying, Civil and Water Engineering software – for the USA.

12d Model is used in over 65 countries, and the uptake continues every day. Version 11 has just been released. Along with that come many enhancements, including 12d Field, and of particular note, some new functionality for underground construction.

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Convex Hulls...No, Not Sailing

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Convex Hulls...No, Not Sailing

Convex Hulls…No, Not Sailing

KODA had some fun this week playing around with Convex Hulls. It’s not a new idea for the spatial sciences, but it’s a new idea for KODA. It’s something that started as a quick and dirty way to find a 2-dimensional boundary around a cloud of points. It works great and is fast and stable.

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Roll with the Pitches

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Roll with the Pitches

Euler Rotations
Whether it’s a roadheader, rockbolter, excavator or TBM, one of the fundamental components on any navigation/guidance system is the dual-axis level sensor located on the main body of the machine. The purpose is obvious: to correct the calibrated coordinate system of the machine to the gravity system. But you need to be careful about a few things…