GEO: connexion articles from December 2004

GEO: connexion archives from December 2004

Education, education, education!(upfront)
December 1, 2004... That was the order of priorities declared to the British public by Tony Blair at New Labour's party conference in 1996. And having swept to power a year later, its emphasis on literacy and numeracy during two successive terms in office has...

All together now.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Keith Murray, the new president of EuroSDR has set out his aims with a statement about co-operation across Europe. "Europe is changing fast. The enlargement of the European Union to 25 members will bring with it new opportunities and new...

Geodan awarded for innovation.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Geodan Mobile Solutions (Amsterdam, Netherlands) has been announced as the winner of the first Oracle PartnerNetwork Innovation Award for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The company won first prize for its Geodan Movida software which...

London's housing jigsaw.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The Greater London Authority (GLA. London, England) has selected Creative Database Projects (CDP. London, England) to develop a GIS-based application to assess housing capacity in the Greater London area over the next 15 to 20 years. This...

French GNSS by 2005.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The French Order of Chartered Surveyors (Ordre des Geometres Experts) has given itself the objective of setting up a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network over the national territory by the end of 2005. The network will be...

Home grown talent.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... CDR Group (Hope, England) has won an award in Directions Magazine's annual Web Mapping Contest. The award was for Best Home Grown Map Renderer; it was judged by Steve Lombardi of Microsoft who said, "you meet a surprisingly quick and versatile...

Satisfied customers.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The Oracle User group has released the results of the Oracle UK Customer Satisfaction Survey 2004. The survey, which received a record number of responses, reveals an overall increase in customer satisfaction, a rise of 12 per cent from 2003....

GITA white paper.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The Geospatial Information and Technology Association has published a white paper on using its Geospatial Technology Report as a GIS benchmarking tool. The sixth edition of the report is a full analysis of the state of geospatial projects in...

Swedish Maritime Administration in safe waters.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA, Norrkoping, Sweden) has decided to migrate its Sysdeco chart database to Windows. The project, which will be managed by Laser-Scan (Cambridge, England), has a value of approximately three million...

GfK Makon supports UN.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... GfK Macon (Waghaeusel, Germany) has been providing support for the United Nations in its efforts to develop a geographic database for UN system-wide use. The organisation requires a common database to provide information in a timely manner and...

Glamorgan & Gwent's GIS.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Glamorgan and Gwent Housing Association (HA) has been implementing dataMAP from SIA (London, England) since August 2003. Prior to the purchase of dataMAP, there was no software solution in place and stock was mapped only by local knowledge and...

Excellence at Maynooth.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... eSpatial Solutions Ltd (Dublin, Ireland) and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth's National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) have entered into a joint venture to establish a centre of excellence in GIS-based spatial analysis. Based at...

I share, you share.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Aligned Assets (Old Woking, England) has delivered a web mapping solution to North Lincolnshire Council built on its new iShareMaps product. The site addresses 'Priority Outcomes', as outlined by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in its...

Part of the furniture.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... MapInfo (Windsor, UK) has been selected by Scandinavian furniture manufacturer, Ekornes UK to provide a geo-demographic market analysis solution. MapInfo's TargetPro enables Ekornes UK to develop a detailed profile of its customer base and...

Online Ordering from EuroGeographics.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... EuroGeographics has launched its Online Ordering and Delivery System. The service was created with assistance from EuroGeographics member, Bundesamt fur Kartographie und Geodasie (Frankfurt, Germany) and forms part of the EuroGlobalMap project,...

Something in the water.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Autodesk, Oracle, Crowder and the Ordnance Survey have recently completed a successful pilot scheme for Thames Water (London, England). The group believes that "they have opened up a new era for GIS." Cross-organisational queries that may have...

Ecognition gets recognition.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Definiens Imaging (Munich, Germany) and global distributor PCI Geomatics (Ontario, Canada) have announced a three-year eCognition educational site licence with OhioView (USA). OhioView is a statewide program that focuses on satellite remote...

Water, water everywhere.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Berlin's water supplier Berliner Wasserbetriebe (BWB) has selected AED-SICAD's (Munich, Germany) new GIS solution for utilities to replace its existing system. The company-wide GIS solution will be used to manage Berlin's network for water...

The customer is always right.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Alabama, USA) has completed the rollout of a geospatial data management solution for part of South Somerset District Council's (England) Customers First Program. The council is one of two governing...

Spot in the states.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Terra Image USA (California, USA) has been named the exclusive distributor of SPOT satellite imaging products and services to the US civilian government market, including federal, state and local government entities and universities. Terra...

MPS and Lords have geomatics in common.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Representatives from the geomatics.org.uk project (Newcastle upon Tyne, England) were recently invited to join The Survey Association's lobbying session at the House of Commons in London. The session was hosted by Phil Willis, MP for Harrogate,...

GSDI's 2004 grants.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association has announced the recipients for its small grants programme for 2004. GSDI is dedicated to bringing about an infrastructure that will allow users globally to access spatial data at a...

AGI's Acacia findings.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Following the completion of the Acacia Programme, the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) has released an official policy statement on addressing. The AGI recognises that addressing is a central aspect of geographic information, and...

TETA TETE.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... At the recent TMC Forum Showcase in Munich, Germany, PTV AG (Karlsruhe, Germany) demonstrated how traffic information can be used for dynamic cross-border navigation throughout Europe. PTV has joined forces with Mizar Mediaservice (Verona,...

ESRI opens up TeliaSonera.(LBS News in Brief)
December 1, 2004... ESRI (California, USA) has deployed its ArcIMS Open Location Services (OpenLS) connector by ESRI Sweden as part of an effort to improve TeliaSonera's mapping engine capabilities for location-based services across Scandinavia. The ArcIMS OpenLS...

Students shown the way.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Multimap (London, England) has deployed its "Travel Directions" service on the University of Sheffield's website. The service enables students, lecturers and visitors to map their route University departments. Multimap delivers step-by-step...

Mini maps on your mobile.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... m-spatial has launched the new MapWay range of maps and walking directions which are based on data from Ordnance Survey. The maps are specially designed for use on the small screen of a mobile phone; the MapWay services are available on most...

Cadcorp win contract.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Cadcorp (Stevenage, England) has announced that it has won a tender to provide software and services to the London Borough of Hounslow (LBH. London, England) for its corporate GIS. LBH had a requirement for a corporate GIS system and used the...

Novatel's Galileo award.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... NovAtel Inc. (Calgary, Canada) has been awarded a [euro]1 million Space Technology Development Program (STDP) contract by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), for work to extend an initial proof of concept prototype Galileo receiver. Funding for...

Vote of confidence.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC (Atlanta, USA) has announced that the USDA Forest Service has signed a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for Leica Geosystems software. The Forest Service is standardising on Leica Geosystems imaging...

Norway's big spend.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Norway, through the Norwegian Space Centre, has pre-purchased [euro]2.2 million worth of RADARSAT International (Richmond, Canada) data and products for the 2004-2006 period. This is an extension of a RADARSAT-2 agreement worth [euro]7.7...

LizardTech & ER Mapper battle on.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... The battle between LizardTech (Seattle, USA) and Earth Resource Mapper (ER Mapper. Perth, Australia) has picked up with the news that LizardTech has filed an appeal in its ongoing patent infringement lawsuit against ER Mapper. The company is...

PriceWatch*.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... PriceWatch* stock price change Autodesk 46.68 +6.67 Intergraph 20.09 -2.03 MapInfo 8.27 +0.56 Trimble Navigation 24.24 +0.74 * Share price (converted to euros) as at close...

The deal's off.(GEO:news)
December 1, 2004... Intermap Technologies Corporation (Denver, USA) has announced that it will not proceed with the previously announced intention to acquire AirPhotoUSA, LLC (Phoenix, USA) due to the inability of the parties to negotiate mutually acceptable...

NAVTEQ Corporation.(RESULTS)
December 1, 2004... Third quarter results for NAVTEQ Corporation (Chicago, USA): revenue increased 37 per cent over the third quarter of 2003 to [euro]75.6 million. Operating income grew 13 per cent over the prior year to [euro]17.1 million. Net income was...

ORBIMAGE Inc.(RESULTS)
December 1, 2004... ORBIMAGE Inc. (Dulles, USA) has announced financial results for the third quarter of 2004. Total revenues for the third quarter, 2004 were [euro]6.9 million compared to third quarter 2003 revenues of [euro]0.85 million. Net loss for the third...

MapInfo.(RESULTS)
December 1, 2004... MapInfo (New York, USA) has reported that in the fourth quarter its operating margin has grown to 10.3 per cent compared to last year's 6.3 per cent. Also reported were earnings per share of [euro]0.07 for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004...

Bentley in Baghdad.(GEO:middle east)
December 1, 2004... Bentley Systems inc (Pennsylvania, USA) has been selected by the engineering and construction company, Parsons and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide its WaterGEMS package for use in major water system developments...

Fallujah online.(GEO:middle east)
December 1, 2004... Telemorphic, Inc. (California, USA) has launched Maplmager On-Line with interactive before and after satellite imagery of Fallujah, Iraq. Using MapImager On-Line companies can provide live access to high resolution imagery and mapping, image...

Africa aquifer.(GEO:africa)
December 1, 2004... GAF AG (Munich, Germany) has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to set up a water management project entitled AQUIFER. AQUIFER is a project within ESA's Data User Element and one of its goals is to act as one of the...

Nigeria's space age.(GEO:africa)
December 1, 2004... On 27 September 2003. Nigeria joined South Africa and Algeria in the African space age when it launched the Nigeria Sat-1 satellite from Plestsk Conmdrome in Russia. Sat-1 orbits 700 kilometres above the earth and has the capacity to capture...

Where's your coffee been?(GEO:africa)
December 1, 2004... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is using ESRI (California, USA) software to assist coffee producing countries in Africa to compete in the speciality coffee market by helping them develop ArcIMS software-based marketing and...

Award for good measure.(GEO:people)
December 1, 2004... John Walsh of Photarc Surveys (Harrogate, England) has been awarded the Richard Carter prize by the Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors for his ground-breaking work in the field of close range photogrammetry. Walsh is a project manager at...

Rowntree joins modis.(GEO:people)
December 1, 2004... Modis International has appointed Justin Rowntree to set up and head its new geo-spatial recruitment division. Justin brings nine years of experience--the last seven of which were dedicated entirely to the geospatial industry. Rowntree will be...

Manfred's the man.(GEO:people)
December 1, 2004... Dr Manfred Krischke has been named as the new managing director at Intermap GmbH. Krischke has a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and successfully co-founded and managed RapidEye AG for nearly six...

Babister an asset.(GEO:people)
December 1, 2004... Aligned Assets has appointed Samantha Babister as sales and marketing support manager. Babister will play a central role in support of the sales team and will be responsible for the coordination of service and product marketing initiatives for...

New to NAVTEQ.(GEO:people)
December 1, 2004... Christopher B. Galvin and William L. Kimsey have been elected to the NAVTEQ board of directors as chairman and director respectively. Galvin is former chairman and CEO of Motorola and Kimsey is former global CEO of Ernst & Young, Galvin...

ESRI 2004 IUC: San Diego, USA.(GEO:connect)
December 1, 2004... Pictured at the ESRI 2004 International User Conference (left from top): [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * K-12 pupils from Bishop Dunne Catholic School in...

From Pharaohs to Geoinformatics.(GEO:connect)
December 1, 2004... The 2005 Working Week of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and the 8th International Conference of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) is planned for the 16 to 21 April. The event is to be held in Cairo, Egypt at the...

INTERGEO 2004: Stuttgart, Germany; New product roundup Pt.2.(GEO:connect)
December 1, 2004... This month, our review of new and improved products at INTERGEO 2004 focuses on surveying-related instrumentation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1. Making its debut at INTERGEO was the Sitecom field-hardened UHF/VHF radio modem from Pacific...

3rd DiMENSlon Conference.(GEO:connect)
December 1, 2004... The "3rd DiMENSlon" Conference, held in Paris (28-29 October) brought together 100 users of the Trimble 3D laser scanning and data editing system, as well as others keen to learn about new developments. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Four...

PROGIS Conference.(GEO:connect)
December 1, 2004... This year's International Conference for the PROGIS software user community was held 21-24 September in Portschach on the shores of Lake Wothersee in Austria. The topic was "IT in Rural Areas" with the emphasis on geodata policy, data quality,...

AGI View; AGI2004: a showcase for the GI community.(GEO:community)
December 1, 2004... As a result of feedback from its members, this year the AGI took the bold decision to organise AGI2004 itself, on behalf of the GI community as a whole. I'm pleased to say the GI community strongly backed this decision, with the exhibition...

EUROGI profile: Eurpopean association of remote sensing companies.(GEO:community)
December 1, 2004... Date of foundation: June 1st, 1989 Status: Not-for-profit organisation President: Paul Kamoun Secretary: Beatrice Perez Language: European languages Number of members: 40 Literature: website, newsletter Remit:...

Interoperability: the key to global security; John Hughes points to a key weapon in the war on terror and how its deployment still leaves much to be desired.(trans-atlantic link)
December 1, 2004... The war against terrorism is being fought on many fronts and in many parts of the world. Because geographic location is a key feature of 80-90 per cent of all government data, it is critical for nations to take the steps necessary to assure...

A revolution in waiting? The use of web mapping is now widespread with many web sites offering valuable online map-based services. The technology behind the map is however becoming outdated; open Scalable Vector Graphics offer so much more but are being sidelined--Bob Barr asks why.(dangling segment)
December 1, 2004... I was referred recently to Traffic England, a trial site offered by the Highways Agency for England to provide drivers with real time information about traffic conditions on the motorways (http://195.188.249.61/TCC/). This is a really good...

ArcGIS 9: standards-based GIS; Engineered for interoperability.
December 1, 2004... ESRI is committed to creating standards-based technology that is open and interoperable with other IT solutions, enterprise applications, and geospatial technologies. In fact, ESRI[R] ArcGIS[R] 9 supports all the leading IT development and...

Metadata: FAQs Pt.3: John Maslen concludes with some practical tips for those with more questions than answers.(data)
December 1, 2004... So how do I get started? As with any project, start by applying best practice in terms of who is going to use it and for what. Needs will tend to vary according to datasets, so a good point to start is an audit of all core datasets and...

Going global with GIS: a tailor-made educational resource opens up new frontiers in geographic enquiry.(FOCUS)
December 1, 2004... While the world is preoccupied with the political ramifications of population growth, energy consumption and climate change, students are quietly probing the underlying causes and consequences thanks to the development of a new educational...

ESRI.(NEWSROUND)
December 1, 2004... ESRI (UK) has launched MapsDirect for Schools, a Web-based solution that provides highly detailed mapping for primary and secondary school teachers and pupils in England, Scotland and Wales. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Intended for use in...

Greening the Gulf: IKONOS images some of the world's most ambitious terraforming projects.(middle east)(Cover Story)
December 1, 2004... In recent years. The Gulf has been transformed by some of the world's most ambitious offshore construction schemes. Faithfully recorded by the one meter resolution sensor aboard Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite, the pan-sharpened image (main...

Spreading palms.(middle east)
December 1, 2004... This sequence of IKONOS high resolution satellite images (below) shows the evolution of Palm Jumeirah over the past two years. Promoted as the eighth wonder of the world, Palm Jumeirah is the first of two artificial islands--the world's...

Rising to the challenge: with Local Land & Property Gazetteers at the heart of e-government in Britain, Chris Wooding takes a look at their evolution and the opportunities they afford for improved service delivery.(addressing)
December 1, 2004... There has been much discussion in recent years about e-government, the delivery of local government services by telephone, fax and, increasingly, the Internet. Since the majority of such services are linked to a property, it is clear that...

Addressing the nation: Britain's Association for Geographic Information argues the case for a definitive national address infrastructure.(addressing)
December 1, 2004... In pursuit of its mission "to maximise the use of geographic information for the benefit of the citizen, good governance and commerce" Britain's Association for Geographic Information (AGI) has recently stated its policy on addressing. The move...

Taking the long view: industry experts take a deep breath and make their predictions for the year ahead.(industry outlook)
December 1, 2004... Bob Morris, president, Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, Atlanta, Georgia, USA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Throughout the coming year we expect to see significant activity in the geospatial imaging market place...

Revealing images; GEO:connexion takes the wraps off advanced techniques evolved at Sweden's Defence Research Agency for the rapid 3D modelling of real-world environments.(lidar)
December 1, 2004... Activities such as crisis management, decision support and mission planning increasingly call for high resolution 3D digital models of real world environments. Their construction poses obvious problems such as a lack of data describing an area...

Made to measure? Mike Bedford assesses the impact of technology on the changing role of the land surveyor.(surveying)
December 1, 2004... Few land surveyors will take issue with the statement that GPS has revolutionised their profession over the past twenty years. Where they are more divided is on how these technical changes will impact their future role. [ILLUSTRATION...

Allied Terrain Technologies Ltd.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Allied Terrain Technologies Ltd (Wellingborough, England) has been awarded Autodesk System Centre Accreditation, making it one of the first UK-based accredited dealers for Autodesk's (Famborough, England) Civil 3D. The software is a new tool...

Blue Marble Geographics.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Blue Marble Geographics (Maine, USA) has received its first Australian order for its internet mapping software, BeyondGeo, from Risk Frontiers--Natural Hazards Research Centre at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Risk Frontiers provides...

DigitalGlobe.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... DigitalGlobe (Colorado, USA) has relocated its corporate headquarters. The company remains in Longmont but now occupies office space in the Boulder County Business Centre. The company's new address and phone numbers: 1601 Dry Creek Drive, Suite...

Earth Resource Mapper.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Earth Resource Mapper (ER Mapper. Perth Australia) has presented the world's first I terabyte (1000 gigabytes) JPEG 2000 image at the JPEG 2000 symposium, 4-5 November, ER Mapper's chief software architect. Simon Cope demonstrated real time...

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites and European Space Agency.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed an agreement to begin building the fourth satellite in the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) series, ensuring...

Geoscience Wales Ltd.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... At the recently held Geoscience Wales Ltd (GWL. Llandudno Junction, Wales) world "summit", it was announced that membership of the cluster company was up by 14 per cent. The event was covered by BBC television and radio and included...

Getmapping.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Getmapping (Hartley Wintney, England) is now offering online access to 1:50,000 OS Landranger and 1:25,000 OS Explorer Series mapping. "There are now over 500 GB of OS Mastermap data available via the Getmapping website currently bundled with...

ICES.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... The ICES Royal School of Military Engineering Award was presented on 20 October 2004. The award is presented to the top ICES student on the Surveyor Engineering Class One course. Due to the close nature of the coursework, scores resulted in a...

Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping, LLC (Atlanta, USA) has made the first sale of its new DSW700 Digital Scanning Workstation to Cooper Aerial Surveys Company (Phoenix, USA). "The Leica Geosystems DSW700 is already helping us to streamline our...

Pegasus.(Business Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Pegasus (Mol, Belgium) has restyled its website to be more accessible. Inspired by the flowing, aerodynamic design of its aircraft, the website has a well-rounded appearance. In the "News/Events" section a list of future conferences and...

Alturion NV.(Hardware Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Alturion NV (Brussels, Belgium) has launched the sixth version of its GPS navigation system, Alturion GPS. The system can be used to convert Pocket PCs, PDAs and notebooks into mobile navigation GPS receivers. The system incorporates the latest...

Oce.(Hardware Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Oce (Venlo, the Netherlands) has introduced the Oce VarioPrint 3070. The 70-page-per-minute printer is intended for use in both central and de-central environments with monthly volumes of 50,000 to 250,000. Users can upgrade the system to the...

San Jose Navigation Inc.(Hardware Briefs)
December 1, 2004... San Jose Navigation Inc (Taipei, R.O.C.) has upgraded its GL-50 GPS receiver. The GL-50B is an all-in-one antenna, receiver and logger and it now features built-in rechargeable batteries. The unit has a 4MB flash memory which can store 50,000...

Topcon.(Hardware Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Topcon (Capelle a/d ljssel, Netherlands) has launched GPT-7000i, a total station which incorporates digital imaging technology. The image seen through the telescope can be viewed on the display screen of the instrument making it easier to aim...

Aligned Assets.(Software Briefs)
December 1, 2004... Aligned Assets (Old Woking, England) has launched iShareMaps, a new application to enable organisations, in particular local authorities, to provide interactive mapping to their customer and public-facing websites. iShareMaps complies with...

GDC.(Software Briefs)
December 1, 2004... GDC (London, England) has released version 3.0 of PlanView, its desktop GIS. The biggest change with this release is that it has migrated to Microsoft's .NET. The release is in step with MapInfo's own software update schedule and adds support...

Global Address.(Software Briefs)
December 1, 2004... A new tool from Global Address (Bristol, England), Global Datastore, allows users to create access to address data from any country in any language. Global Datastore captures, cleans and enhances data for every country recognised by the...