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Articles in May, 2005 issue of GEO: connexion

• Sri Lanka surveys the damage.
• Dangling segment: private and public; Bob Barr points to an impediment that hinders Britain's knowledge-based economy and wonders if it is strictly necessary.
  by Barr, Robert
• Mix and match: GeoMedia Fusion is a new product from Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Alabama, USA). It can be used to automate and standardise geospatial data collection, integration and maintenance.
• Trimble sets its sites on construction.
• Rock and roll: Leica Geosystems AG (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) introduces a new machine navigation sensor for precise dynamic GPS guidance of vehicles.
• Away with daylight robbery: among the nooks and crannies into which the competition authorities have recently shone their torch is the world of business rates.
  by Ballard, Tony
• From strength to strength: INTERGEO East, little sister to the near-legendary annual German gathering, met this year in the city of Zagreb, tucked away in north-east Croatia. Rosie Waddicor was on hand to capture the sights and the sounds of the three day
  by Waddicor, Rosie
• Fastrax Ltd.(HARDWARE)
• Business Objects.(BUSINESS)
• Trimble.(HARDWARE)
• A dangerous world.
• MPA Kartografija moves to Mercator.
• Fewa opts for ArcFM UT.
• Coastal conservation in the Levant: Sabina Carnemolla outlines how geoinformation has been exploited in a multi-national project to address coastal erosion and land degradation in Lebanon and Syria.
  by Carnemolla, Sabina
• Glgateway.(BUSINESS)
• Multimap.(BUSINESS)
• Skytrax's the limit.
• Caris to calm Caspian conflict.
• Africa: mapping the infrastructure of Namibia; Roy Popiolek and Dagmar Honsbein discuss how spatial data relating to the infrastructure of Namibia was integrated together and is now accessible on the Internet for the first time.
  by Honsbein, Dagmar; Popiolek, Roy
• Fujitsu Siemens.(HARDWARE)
• Clark Labs and the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.(BUSINESS)
• Sequoia Technology.(HARDWARE)
• Take a 3D view: 3D landscape visualisation is here to stay and gaining ground in a number of specialist areas, William Allbrook and Nigel Lorriman find out how and why.
  by Allbrook, William; Lorriman, Nigel
• Geo-communication the modern way: Lars Brodersen explains why the communication of geoinformation involves much more than a map alone.
  by Brodersen, Lars
• A new standard: Thales (Carquefou, France) introduces the MobileMapper Pro Package which adds sub-metre post processing as standard to MobileMapper.
• Royalty free mapping from Avenza.
• See how we surf.
• Open-source visualisation: Virtual Terrain Project; Interactive visualisation of geospatial data is becoming more mainstream. For many years, visualisation occurred only in very small niches, isolated research projects, or in rudimentary form in the dispa
  by Discoe, Ben
• IDELIX Software Inc.(BUSINESS)
• Optech Incorporated.(BUSINESS)
• Infotech acquires Indian arm of Tele Atlas.
• The MapX factor.
• Czech mate: the national authority for surveying and cadastre in the Czech Republic has awarded a contract for the establishment of a nationwide network of GPS reference stations.
• Checking quality control? If one asks, how is quality control doing within the community of GIS, web-services based on GEO-information, GI etc.?
  by Brodersen, Lars
• SolidWorks Corporation.(BUSINESS)
• Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.(BUSINESS)
• ESRI.(SOFTWARE)
• Strength in numbers.
• Be meeting Prague 2005: a Geospatial Summit; "GEO is part of DNA"--Stefano Morisi, Bentley.
• Developing GIS skills in French agriculture: Pierre Bazile shares some insights on staff learning in GI--from executives to line staff.
  by Bazile, Pierre
• A step up for spatial analysis.
• Seven themes for seven countries.
• Playing by the rules; With the latest release of STAR ELEC, STAR INFORMATIC (Liege, Belgium) has demonstrated its commitment to the Open Spatial Enterprise approach: the application supports native storage of data in Oracle Spatial and locator format for
• Looking to the past: BlueSky (Leicestershire, UK) has created a series of contour maps, terrain models and perspective views from archived black and white aerial photography to aid site and infrastructure development for an export quarry and crushing work
• Capturing coal on camera.
• Intelliscan Ltd.(HARDWARE)
• Bentley Systems, Inc.(BUSINESS)
• Microsoft.(SOFTWARE)
• 3D GIS archaeology in South Africa: archeologists working along the South African southern coast use multidimensional GIS applications to model Pleistocene caves and paleo-environments reconstructing the landscape CA. 420,000 to 30,000 BP.
  by Fisher, Erich; Marean, Curstis; Pyne, Lydia
• Call for Space 2005.
• From sandbox to cartographic artist: Tibor G. Toth reflects on his journey in cartography, from the basic techniques to the magnificent maps in National Geographic--a personal pursuit of cartography around the world.
  by Toth, Tibor G.
• Clean sweep at Autodesk.
• Leica donates to ISPRS.
• With design in mind.
• Insular: a business issue; This edition of GEO:connexion contains many articles related to 3-D visualisation. There is a growing shift toward 3-D enabled solutions and products.
  by Thurston, Jeff
• Avenza Systems Inc.(BUSINESS)
• Lucent Technologies.(BUSINESS)
• Scotland's sea level: Norwich Union insurance (Norwich, UK) has acquired Intermap's (Denver, USA) 3D terrain map of Scotland in order to extend its flood mapping project across great britain.
• Reuter joins Trimble.
• Powell joins Survey Supplies.
• MD Robotics.(HARDWARE)
• The EU's online bookshop has announced the availability of a CDROM of the European Soil Database at a scale of 1:1,000,000.(BUSINESS)
• Trimble Outdoors.(SOFTWARE)
• London--Hounslow Contaminated Land study: environmental law in England and Wales makes it a statutory duty to investigate lands for contamination.
  by Spencer, Matthew
• Digital nurses keep patients in check.
• Stock watch: a short summary of recent stock market events and emerging GI related business information.
• Oce's winter wonderland: Teutonic efficiency and Bavarian hospitality guaranteed a highly successful outing for Oce's 2005 openhouse, an annual gathering at which the Netherlands-based print giant updates customers, prospects and partners on its business
• Diary & events.(Calendar)
• Ordnance Survey.(BUSINESS)
• Former rivals form alliance: former GIS competitors GGP Systems (London, UK) and Survey Supplies (Liverpool, UK) have formed an alliance to promote each other's products to local government in the UK.
• TomTom and AND.
• Next gen from TatukGIS.
• Wavelet space--the new imagery workbench: Karen Morley explains how 'geospatial workflows evolve with GeoExpress'.
  by Morley, Karen
• ER Mapper made easy for education.
• Generalisation in Germany.
• Gizmondo Europe Ltd.(HARDWARE)
• ESRI Press.(BUSINESS)
• Trimble.(BUSINESS)