GEO: connexion

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Articles in April, 2006 issue of GEO: connexion

• The SDIC MORE, the Spatial Data Interest Community.
• SPY .NET.
• Combining together.
• ESRI.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• DIMAC Systems, s.a.r.l. of Luxemburg and VXServices, LLC.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Transport Direct: Transport Direct is a [euro]38 million project, aimed at providing a single point of access web portal for British travel information, whether by car or by public transport.
• Stock watch: a short summary of recent stock market events and emerging GI related business information.
• 3D laser scanning: one new Laser Scanner is providing improved performance in many applications.
• International Federation of Surveyors.
• Space Communications Corporation.
• GPS Spider software: providing new possibilities for reference station solutions and network RTK.
• Spot: 20 years observing earth; Spot image celebrates 20 years of continuous operation imaging the planet.
• Annual General Meetings.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• GNSS & GALILEO: the Munich satellite navigation summit 2006 was held at the max-joseph-saal recently. Nearly 400 individuals from around the world attended to hear and participate in activities surrounding GNSS and the upcoming GALILEO satellite syste
• Radius Studio launch: the exclusive executive launch of Radius Studio took place at IBM's offices in Bedfont Lakes, London, UK on Wednesday 25th January 2006.
  by Beckford, Abbie
• UNEP/GRID.
• Diary & events.(Calendar)
• SIA Ltd.
• Historic imagery: historical imagery is providing valuable information and assisting to provide consistency.
• Servingo.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Maplnfo Corporation.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Enterprise water MGT. The Berlin Centre of competence for water in Germany is conducting a study called the integrated sewage management project, with the twin aims of improving the quality of watercourses and reducing operational costs.
• In depth: Thales Navigation; You can barely hear the sound of train wheels on the track; Instead, the sound of air sweeping by provides the sense of movement. The TGV (train a Grande vitesse) remains as one of the fastest rides in the world. This day I am
• Improved scanning.
• Encom Technology.
• QT.
• Digital maps of Belarus.
• Group 1 Software, Pitney Bowes Company.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• DGI 2006 Europe: with security and defence issues currently at the forefront given recent international terrorist and military events, the Second Defence Geospatial Intelligence Conference and Exhibition was staged in late January at the queen Elizabeth I
• Sustainable GIS: this article focuses on issues relating to GIS projects in developing nations, also relevant to GIS-naive organisations in the developed world.
  by Longhorn, Roger
• G-Smart.
• GO Publisher certification.
• Infoterra.
• Innovation in printing.
• OS and Pictometry.
• Intermap Technologies Corp.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Postcode mapping: PostcodeAnalyst is designed and optimised for accessing postcode data and services. Mike Leatherbarrow shares some insight into the post code process.
  by Leatherbarrow, Mike
• Review: Laser Technology, TruPulse 200B.
  by Thurston, Jeff
• Cable-free.
• New server.
• East View Cartographic.
• TOP10NL Dutch support.
• Silicon Graphics.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• IONIC Software.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Autodesk--'accelerate': industry solutions launch--March 1--London, UK.
• 3D CAD speeds rail design: one of the largest infrastructure projects ever in the Netherlands on track for 2007 completion. Cees Veerhoek explains how 3D CAD was used during the construction.
  by Veerhoek, Cees
• Water GEM.
• Blue Marble Geographics.
• GMLJP2 standard.
• Location Intelligence.
• The Geospatial Information & Technology Association.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• History in the making: John Renard discusses a UK wide project to provide the comprehensive historical map collection and database of historical potentially contaminative land uses for the UK.
  by Renard, John
• Good GI professor: there are many ways to "be good". In the last issue, Tom Poiker shared with us his thoughts on the history of teaching GI(S), highlighting changes and invariants of "being good".
  by Kuhn, Werner
• Write and enter.
• eSpatial.
• New training courses.
• EUMETSAT.
• The Bentley Institute.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Value in virtuality: a virtual GPS concept garners tangible results for surveyors. Mary Jo Wagner explains the concept using a Canadian example.
  by Wagner, Mary Jo
• Hang on a minute ...: one has to be cautious when writing about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and commercial satellite imagery (CSI) application in the defense domain today.
  by Armstrong, Douglas G.
• Stitcher: align and stitch together several images into one panoramic scene easily.
• PCI Geomatics.
• 3D Germany.
• Iberian peninsula mapped.
• Topcon Europe Positioning BV.
• ESRI.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Improving public services: GIS combines with management information systems technology to enable information sharing, increase municipal revenues and to deliver improved services to the citizens of Beyoglu, Istanbul.
• GIS & language: Jim Baumann shares some insight into the changing dynamics and use of language around the world today and how GIS is being used to preserve languages.
  by Baumann, Jim
• Image tie points.
• Vexcel Corporation and COWI A/S.
• Triple head, triple view: increase work efficiency with 3 monitors.
• National mapping: national mapping agencies are unique and their role is changing.
  by Thurston, Jeff
• BAE Systems.
• ER Mapper.(NEWS BRIEFS)
• Conserving liquid assets: ground water is an increasingly scarce commodity across large swathes of north Africa and the middle east. Yet with major aquifers crossing national boundaries, disputes over water rights are seldom far from the surface. One mult
• 4th GML relay: the results of the fourth GML relay in Emmen, the Netherlands last month provides indication that GML may become the de facto technology for data exchange.
  by Wilkinson, Elizabeth
• CAD/GIS Reprographics.