GEO: connexion articles from December 2002

GEO: connexion archives from December 2002

Commemorating the past, signposting the future. (Upfront).
December 1, 2002... Peterfitzgibbon@geoconnexion.com On a hill near Frankfurt-am-Main stands a small but significant monument. It was here, on the windswept summit of the Grosser Feldberg, that a stone pillar was erected in 1868 to commemorate the...

Daratech 2001 GIS marketshares. (News).(geographical information systems)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The latest GIS market report from Daratech (for 2001) points to a 14.3 per cent growth over the previous year and global software revenues totalling US$1.1 billion. GIS services.... bring in $5.4 billion while GIS drives $799 million in...

Multimap.com wins top award. (News).
December 1, 2002... Multimap.com (London, UK) was awarded the title of 'Best Internet Service' at the annual World Communication Awards held in London in September. Kim Musgrave, Multimap.com's marketing manager, commented: "We're thrilled to have won this award...

Voice recognition in the field. (News).
December 1, 2002... Voice-Insight (Brussels, Belgium) has released Voice Assistant for ArcPad, a new application built on top of ESRI's ArcPad 6 software. This enables users in the field to complete their common ArcPad applications using voice prompts including...

21st century car sharing. (News).(MapMechanics)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * Travelshare uses web-based interactive mapping to make car-sharing a practical, realistic and attractive cost-saving proposition the first time within major business organisations and public bodies. Developed by Field Business Solutions of...

Maporama guides Dr. Martens. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Dr. Martens, the well known footwear brand has chosen Maporama (Paris, France) to provide mapping functionality for www.drmartens.com. This now has an easy-to-use store finding facility to locate 7,000 Dr. Martens retailers across the world-the...

Landmark targets government. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Landmark Information Group (Exeter, UK) has set up a new business unit, Landmark Government, to address both local and central government markets from which they already get some 15% of their revenue. Christopher Roper, business development...

Publicly available Indian maps. (News).(suvey of India releases digital format to public)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Survey of India (Sol) has released its first map in digital format on the WGS 84 Datum for civilian use. In a ceremony held at Department of Science and Technology (DST) Prof V S Ramamurthy, Secretary, DST, Government of India released the...

Tekla for Oulu. (News).(Tekla Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The City of Oulu (Finland) has reformed its municipal information system over the last two years to improve decision-making and enhance operational productivity. Tekla Corporation's Xcity, with its municipal register system, has been...

Three Ordnance Surveys strengthen links. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Chief executives of national mapping agencies from Great Britain (OS-GB), Northern Ireland (OSNI) and the Republic of Ireland (OSi) met recently in Belfast to sign a joint Memorandum of Understanding that recognises their ongoing co-operation....

Gamma locates Irish stores. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Gamma (Dublin, Ireland) has announced a new store evaluation & market analysis software solution jointly developed with sister company Bizmaps to help retailers better manage their store networks. This on-line product, called 'FORESITE',...

Cadcorp hits the road. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Those keen to explore the potential of GIS and digital mapping in government, emergency services, data capture and surveying will find plenty on offer at the Cadcorp SIS Road Show 2003, the itinerery for which is: 21 Jan. Bristol (SS Great...

HandyGIS in San Diego. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The new HandyGIS mobile mapping and GIS application for PocketPC received an outing at MapInfos recentconference in San Diego, gaining acclaim from Maplnfo partners, end-users and staffers alike. The presentation by British-based JDW Consultant...

QinetiQ visualises a 3D Britain. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... A new 3D map service, enAble3D[TM], has been launched by QinetiQ, formerly part of the UK's Defence Research Agency. 3D virtual worlds that can be explored from a standard PC are now available for everyone from architects to tourist information...

New FieldWorker from Somerset. (News).(FieldWorker Products Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Conservation Technology Ltd (Somerset, UK) has become an Enterprise Reseller for FieldWorker Products' (Toronto, Canada) mobile field data collection and synchronisation software. FieldWorker offers a rapid development environment to prepare...

French build Lithunian Land Parcels. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture has awarded SCOT (Toulouse, France) a [euro]700,000 contract to develop a Land Parcel Identification System for managing agricultural subsidies similar to those in the EU. The contract, in partnership with...

Forum challenges Ordnance Survey. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Geographical Industry Forum (GIF) has been set up by seven charter members from the private sector of the GI industry to press for a better and fairer balance in market power between the private sector geographical industry in the United...

Copyright dampens tri-country water database. (News).(digital mapping)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Narva River / Lake Peipsi catchment GIS database has been released by the MANTPA-East project covering areas of Russia, Latvia and Estonia. This was developed during 2001-2002 as the joint RTD project integrated Strategies for the...

Tadpole-Cartesia team with ESRI for OS. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Tadpole-Cartesia (Edinburgh, Scotland) has been awarded its largest ever software connect as prime contractor to build Ordnance Surveys next-generation field information system in partnership with ESRI. This will help 400-plus field surveyors...

Poles choose Thales for GPS reference. (News).(Thales Navigation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Thales Navigation (Santa Clara, USA) is providing Ashtech MicroZ [TM] CGRS reference stations to Poland for a pilot GPS COPS (continuously operating reference station) network in the Polish province of Silesia. MicroZ CGRS is one of the most...

Bright STAR shines in France. (News).(athories join STAR Informatic GIS Users' Club)(geographic information systems)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Several new French local authorities have joined the STAR INFORMATIC (Liege, Belgium) GIS Users' Club. These include the intercommunal associations or equivalents in Dreux, the Brainconais Region, Vemouillet and Reims. They are using both STAR...

Maporama teams with Inovia. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Maporama (Paris, France) provider of online location-centric solutions has formed an alliance with Inovia, a provider of resource optimisation software, to develop a new generation of location-based optimisation products for large corporations...

Turn by turn by Tele Atlas. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Tele Atlas North America, Inc. (Menlo Park, USA) have launched a new turn-by-turn map database that combines significantly improved accuracy and coverage with the only direct traffic-linked map and real-time traffic feed. The result is a...

Webraska teams with Geo Strategies. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Geo Strategies Ltd (Cambridge, UK), supplier of seamless mapping for Central and Eastern Europe, and Webraska (Paris, France) the worldwide provider of LBS and enabling platforms are to collaborate to develop the LBS sector in Central and...

Tracking trailers. (LBS News in Brief).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Tele Atlas have launched a new integrated logistics package targeted at trailer tracking and management. This integrated technology exploits the tracking device recently developed by Pinpoint Technology using solar power and intelligent GPS....

UKAE has awarded a ground investigation contract for the Dounreay site. (Awards).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * UKAE has awarded a ground investigation contract for the Dounreay site to Motherwell Bridge Nuclear and Entec UK

UK Ministry of Defence. (Awards).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded software licences to ESRI and Intergraph

The Department of GeoInformation in Rheinland-Pfalz. (Awards).( Vermessungsburo Riemann-MeyerKoch awarded contract)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * The Department of GeoInformation in Rheinland-Pfalz has awarded a digital mapping contract to Vermessungsburo Riemann-MeyerKoch.

The Loire Bretagne water board. (Awards).(GEO-HYD awarded contract)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * The Loire Bretagne water board has awarded a topographic survey contract to GEO-HYD.

The Montana Vallellina authority. (Awards).(survey contract awarded to Spectrum Graphics SpA)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * The Montana Vallellina authority has awarded a [euro]1 40 000 survey contract to Spectrum Graphics SpA

The Spanish Department of the Environment. (Awards).(awards hydrographic survey contract to Technica y Proyectos)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... * The Spanish Department of the Environment has awarded a [euro]2.8m EUR hydrographic surveying contract to Technica y Proyectos

Correction.
December 1, 2002... Nottingham University Consultants Ltd has been awarded a GIS contract by the Countryside Agency and not the Environment Agency as stated in the last issue.

ESRI wins with IBM in Romania. (News).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... ESRI and IBM have scooped a contract to supply the GIS component of Romania's [euro]25 million General Cadastre and Land Registration Information System (LRIS). The first phase will cover seven of Romania's 42 districts ('judets") and will...

MapInfo signals a return to profitability. (Results).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... MapInfo Corp. says that, based on a preliminary review of financial results for the quarter ended September 30, it anticipates revenues to be approximately [euro]23.17 million and net income to be approximately [euro]0.01 per share. In the...

Framos, a specialist distributor of image processing technology, has been appointed UK distributor for Trimble Lassen GPS modules. (News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Framos, a specialist distributor of image processing technology, has been appointed UK distributor for Trimble Lessen GPS modules, antennas and Develop-ment Starter Kits for positional applications. A range of Precision Timing modules are also...

PriceWatch.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
December 1, 2002... PriceWatch * stock price change Autodesk 14.33 [up] +1.35 Intergraph 16.69 [down] -2.20 MapInfo 7.41 [up] +1.98 Trimble Navigation 13.36 [up] +3.85 * Share...

INTERGEO roundup; as Europe's biggest geoinformation event got underway in Frankfurt last October, GEO:connexion mounted its skateboard for a whistle stop tour of the showground. (Connect).
December 1, 2002... According to organisers, HINTE Messe-und-Ausstellungs GmbH, the record number of visitors to INTERGEO 2002 reflected the growing appeal of the event. This was backed by a survey revealing that two thirds of attendees rated attendance as...

Part 2: GeoSolutions 2002 gallery; another pictorial peek at last year's GeoSolutions exhibition at London's Earl's Court. (Connect).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... GeoNorth 2003 preview Preparations are well underway for GeoNorth 2003, a one-day showcase & forum devoted to geographic information and its benefits to Britain's public sector and public service communities. To be held on 18 March in...

ESRI European User Group Conference: Arise Sir Jack! (Connect).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.)
December 1, 2002... Robin Waters reports from Bruges Picture a noisy medieval banqueting hall with serving wenches, fire eaters, assorted minstrels, and birds of prey zooming low over your head, Then, if you listen carefully, you hear the words, Arise, Sir...

IM2002 Awards. (Stop Press).(geographic information systems)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Results of the GIS Project category of the information Management 2002 Awards, announced at a gala dinner dinner in London's Grosvenor Park Hotel at the end of last year, were... Winner: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...

AGI MAGIC! (AGI View).(Association for Geographic Information conference achievement awards)
December 1, 2002... The belief that Geographic Information is everywhere was reinforced at the Association for Geographic Information's annual awards ceremony, held last November in London's Insurance Hall. As GI expands into all walks of life like magic, the...

AESIG: Spanish Association for Geographical Information Systems asociacion Espanola De Sistemas De Informacion Geografica. (Eurogi Member Profile).
December 1, 2002... Founded: 28 November 1990 Status: Non-profit association President and Chairman of the Board: Bernardo Pizarro (since 2001) Secretary General: Francisco Zapatero (since 1999) Language: Spanish Number of members: 42...

New EuroGeographics President. (People).(Joakim Ollen)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... During the 2nd General Assembly of EuroGeographics in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Joakim Ollen, Director General of Lantmateriet--(the National Land Survey of Sweden), was appointed as the new President of EuroGeographics. Ollen, 50, is a...

Multimap.com promotes Jeff Kelisky to CEO. (People).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Multimap (London, UK) has promoted Jeffrey Kelisky, recently appointed as chief operating officer, to chief executive officer. Former CEO, Sean Phelan, will become chairman of the company. Kelisky joined Multimap.com in April 2000. Since then...

Masser is 'midwife'. (People).(Ian Masser)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... At the Sixth Global Spatial Data Infrastructure conference at Budapest in September Professor Ian Masser, (President of EUROGI) took over the Presidency of GSDI from Santiago Borrero of Columbia The Conference marks a turning point in the...

Landmark for Wills. (People).(John Wills, Landmark Government)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Landmark Government (Exeter, UK), the new business unit of Landmark Information Group Limited, has appointed Dr. John Wills to be responsible for business development and sales in the Central Government sector. John will be working closely with...

Pederson moves 'back' to Thales. (People).(Stig Pedersen)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Stig Pedersen has been appointed director of GIS product marketing at Thales Navigation, reporting to Neil Vancans, general manager of the professional products strategic business unit, Pedersen will be responsible for developing and launching...

University of Haifa, Israel Department of Geography. (Profile).
December 1, 2002... Perched imposingly on the upper terraces of Mount Carmel, and with stunning views over northern Israel and the mountains of the Galilee, the University of Haifa has an ambience others can only envy. Its campus, set in arguably the oldest,...

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions. (Newsround).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions has awarded its first US$55,000 GeoMedia[R]) Research Grant to the Center for Bioenvironmental Research (CBR) in New Orleans, USA. The Center - a partnership between Tulane and Xavier Universities -...

ESRI. (Newsround).(educational package product release)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... In another corporate programme, ESRI launched a new version of the Web-based GISQuest educational package in time for last November's GIS Day event. This combined streaming multimedia segments with video and animated graphics, a GIS mapping...

Britain's Computers in Education Advisory Unit. (Newsround).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Britain's Computers in Education Advisory Unit has launched a free viewer for Aegis 3, the educational GIS for Year 7 to A-level geography students. At the time of going to press, the Viewer was due to make its debut on CD-ROM at the BETT...

Visual Learning Systems Inc. (Newsround).(student researchers evaluate software)
December 1, 2002... Faculty and students at San Diego State University (SDSU) have given the thumbs-up to automated feature extraction software from Visual Learning Systems Inc. Purchased early last year by SDSU's Geography Department, the package (Feature...

Laser-Scan. (Newsround).(Laser-Scan of Cambridge, England lets universities evaluate products in their research)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Laser-Scan of Cambridge, England, has established the Radius Academic Programme... one that gives universities world-wide the chance to evaluate its Radius suite of products in their research work. As well as receiving the first offering...

Will the earth move for your data? Robin Walters assesses the prospect and how to guard against it. (OS Positional Accuracy Improvement Programme).
December 1, 2002... John Higgins and Peter Shilson (October and November issues) initiated a debate concerning the effect of the current Ordnance Survey (OS) Positional Accuracy Improvement (PAI) programme. The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) held...

SIMple but effective: Jerome Nadel explores that enticing interface where location-based services meet messaging and entertainment. (Futures).
December 1, 2002... If mobile consumers represent the Holy Grail of the evolving wireless eco-system, operators have joined the search to provide them with lifestyle-tailored services... services that will safeguard, prolong and strengthen the relationship. ...

The German elections and GI: Wolfgang Steinborn reflects on unprecedented political interest in the spatial domain. (Central European Eye).
December 1, 2002... If asked which government has served Germany's GI interests best, the re-elected coalition of Social Democrats and Greens would surely be at the top of the list. The intensity of GI-related events and the interest of politicians during its term...

Beware of wishes coming true: Robert Barr discovers that street address initiatives are not unlike London buses ... you wait for ages, and then they arrive in droves. (Dangling Segment).
December 1, 2002... In my last column I welcomed the declaration by Britain's Acacia consortium (HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, Local Government Information House, Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and the Valuation Office Agency) that they were collaborating...

Landmark delivers mapping solutions for Government. (Advertorial).
December 1, 2002... Landmark Information Group have recently announced the launch of Landmark Government, a new business unit which will focus on the specialised GI needs of Central and Local Government, offering a range of products and services which are...

Naivasha ... a matter of trust: as a receding shoreline threatens the ecological balance of one of Kenya's largest freshwater lakes, Daniel Haywood explains how spatial techniques are helping to reconcile competing interests. (Africa).
December 1, 2002... Situated about 80Km to the North West of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Lake Naivasha is surrounded by agricultural holdings and game reserves whose produce constitutes a significant percentage of the nation's foreign exchange earnings. ...

Fire in the bush? Let it burn! (Newsround).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Cape Nature Conservation (CNC), a body that manages several protected areas within South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom, has purchased an ER Mapper 6.3 license from Andrew Terhorst Consulting CC. A particular concern in a region noted for its...

Minining cadastre systems for DRC. (Newsround).(Democratic Republic of Congo)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... GAF AG of Munich, Germany, is developing a new computerised mining cadastre system for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The project aims to improve governance in the nation's mining sector by establishing a transparent system with which...

Mapping urban data in Senegal. (Newsround).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... As part of a year-long project funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) worked with academics and city officials in Dakar, Senegal. to devise a set of web-based...

Catching the wave Africa-style: as telcos stake out business prospects on the African continent, ADC WorldMap and LCC International are helping them catch - and ride - the wireless wave. (Africa).(telecommunciation services)
December 1, 2002... The intention to set up as a new in-country wireless provider requires a complex business plan and hours of exhaustive analysis. Critical decisions are needed as to whether the country can sustain, both technically and economically, an...

Aiming high at Bezeq; as Israel's national telco faces up to new business challenges, GEO: connexion reports on how GIS finds itself in the front line of a looming battle for hearts and minds. (Middle East).
December 1, 2002... Finns may well possess the highest number of cellular phones per head of population, but Israelis could easily qualify as the worlds most avid users. All of which is manna from heaven for national telecommunications services provider, Bezeq, at...

The Palms: miracles-in-the-making; high resolution satellite images track progress on Dubai's new claim to fame. (Middle East).
December 1, 2002... Dubai has recently become home to a wonder of the modern world-Palm Jumeirah and Palm Jebel Ali islands. These two offshore additions to the Arabian Gulf are heading their way into the record books as the world's largest manmade islands...a...

GIS goes public in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa. (Newsround).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... In the latest phase of its GIS evolution, the Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Municipal Council in Israel has finalised trials of public access terminals (inset right) and is poised to launch an Internet Web mapping service for its metropolitan population of...

New Spot Image office for UAE. (Newsround).(United Arab Emirates)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... As part of its expansion and to provide a service tailored to local market needs, Spot Image is opening a new office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Bruno Montfort, previously sales manager for the region, based at Spot Image...

Baghdad blues. (Newsround).(satellite image of possible chemical weapons production facility, outside Baghdad, Iraq)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... As Iraq undergoes the latest UN inspection, this extract from a Quickbird satellite image acquired by DigitalGlobe last September shows one of the sites under renewed scrutiny-the Al Muthanna chemical weapons production facility located 70 km...

Finns map Turkey. (Newsround).(Novo Group completes mapping project for Turkcell cellular operator)
December 1, 2002... The Helsinki-based Novo Group has completed a major mapping exercise for Turkey's biggest cellular operator, Turkcell. Data compiled for network planning purposes and based on 52 Landsat satellite images include a land-use classification, a...

Back to the future: Michal Kucera and Jiri Machacek relate how an award-winning GIS project aids archaeological research in the Czech Republic. (Archaeology).
December 1, 2002... In one of the Czech Republic's most notable field research programmes for undergraduates, Masaryk University in Bmo has been engaged in in major archaeological excavations at Pohansko in the southeast corner of the country. Research on this...

Getting a grip on offshore outsourcing: those seeking strong and enduring partnerships will find India an excellent choice. (Offshore Services).
December 1, 2002... The Gartner report (2002) broadly defines outsourcing as the delegation of one or more IT-intensive business processes to an external provider that in turn, owns, administrates and manages the selected process(es), based upon defined and...

Peak practice: England's High Peak Borough Council moves streets ahead with the aid of MapInfo's BS7666 Toolbox. (Addressing & Geocoding).
December 1, 2002... 1999 saw the British government introduced the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) -- a centralised database for land and property-related data drawn from a range of bodies including the Land Registry, the Valuation Office and local...

What's new in surveying instruments? Mike Bedford takes a sighting on tools of the trade and how they are evolving to meet the needs of professionals. (Hardware).
December 1, 2002... With GPS-based hardware now providing surveyors with millimetre accuracy at the push of a button, conventional surveying instruments are rarely considered glamorous. Yet instruments that rely on optics rather than satellite technology are still...

ACTion Imaging Solutions have appointed Allied Images Ltd. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... ACTion Imaging Solutions (AIS) (Denver, USA) have appointed Allied Images Ltd, (Northampton, England) as Distributor for their range of Colortrac and Anatech wide format scanners in the UK and Ireland. The ANAtech Eagle Colour scanners...

Blue 8. (Business Briefs).(formerly SER Systems AG)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... blue 8 (Nottingham, England), has launched the latest version 'blue 8 xd' of its location based service solution for public sector organisations. Formerly Pafec and then SER Systems, blue 8 is the result of a management buy out in 2001. blue 8...

Cadcorp. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Cadcorp (Stevenage, England) web-based mapping is helping Medway and Kent councils to present their case to the public as they challenge the UK government over plans for an airport at Cliffe on the Thames estuary. Citizens are being canvassed...

SpatialAce from Carmenta is the first geographical toolkit to add support for RaveGeo. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... SpatialAce from Carmenta (Goteborg, Sweden) is the first geographical toolkit to add support for RaveGeo, the compression and streaming technology for digital vector maps from Idevio, Users of SpatialAce can now reduce the cost and time...

CDR Group. (Business Briefs).
December 1, 2002... CDR Group (Hope, England) is helping Derbyshire County Council to survey bus stops for the National Public Transport Access Nodes database, NaPTAN. Using MapInfo[R] GIS, CDRs team will carry out a paperless survey of each of the 5000 bus stops...

DATA East, LLC. (Business Briefs).(exhibits at conferrence)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... DATA East LLC (Novosibirsk Russia) exhibited at the ESRI European User Conference. A private company specialising in GIS software and services, it was spun off from the Novosibirsk Regional Center for Geo-information Technologies of the Russian...

GeoFoto will deliver Laser-Scan's Radius Topology product to its Intergraph and Bentley customers throughout Croatia. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... GeoFoto (Zagreb, Croatia) will deliver Laser-Scan's Radius Topology product to its Intergraph and Bentley customers throughout Croatia. This will provide full topological snapping and editing functionality and enable the Croatian Topographic...

Bryant Homes which builds around 6,000 new homes each year in the UK is using Getmapping. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Bryant Homes which builds around 6,000 new homes each year in the UK is using Getmapping's (Hartley Wintney, England) Millenium Map aerial imagery to provide site assessments prior to ground visits. This saves time and money during the planning...

Trevor Whittock from the London Borough of Newham won an IPAQ Pocket PC in the GGP Systems. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Trevor Whittock from the London Borough of Newham won an IPAQ Pocket PC in the GGP Systems (Croydon, England) prize draw. The system incorporates Positioning Resources (Aberdeen, Scotland) PocketGlS and the draw was held at the GeoSolutions...

InfoTech Enterprises Europe. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... InfoTech Enterprises Europe has agreed that the training specialists STAR Consulting will promote InfoTech Europe's range of Maplnfo and Arcview training courses throughout the UK. Previous clients for these courses have included the...

InfoTech Europe. (Business Briefs).(Logica wins Challenge Transat yacht race)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The Logica boat, co-sponsored by InfoTech Europe (London, England) has won the Challenge Transat yacht race from Southampton to Boston and back again, Skipper Duggie Gillespie and his crew celebrated with champagne after two months of intense...