GEO: connexion articles from June 2005

GEO: connexion archives from June 2005

Evolving toward enterprise: this edition of our magazine seeks to capture the evolution and growth of GI within the enterprise.
June 1, 2005... While it might be tempting to suggest that enterprise focused solutions are innovative, it is more accurate to assess them as evolutionary in nature. This can be attributed to the fact that enterprise connectivity and information sharing is an...

A new dimension.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... In response to the need for fast, cost effective and continuous updates of road networks and assets, PPWK GeoInvent (Warsaw, Poland) has enhanced its MMS--Mobile Mapping Service--system for the collection and interpretation of spatial...

Any data, any application.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Hitachi Software Global Technology (Colorado, USA), has announced new functionality within its Any*GIS--GeoAdapters. Any*GIS is a multi-tiered, interoperable framework that integrates multiple GIS data sources; it supports spatial data access...

SOCET to me: the latest version of SOCET GXP from BAE Systems (California, USA) is now available.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Version 2, features a streamlined workflow, making it more straightforward to create and distribute data. Such data is used for mission planning search and rescue operations, disaster relief, change detection, natural resources management,...

Carlson SurvCADD 2006 now shipping.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Carlson Software (Kentucky, USA) is now shipping Carlson SurvCADD 2006, the latest version from the SurvCADD product line. The 2006 offering delivers increased productivity to customers with the inclusion of over 100 new commands, 300 improved...

One step ahead.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... DeLorme (Maine, USA) has announced the release of XMap OpenSpace Database Integration Kit, which allows users to increase efficiency by automatically updating the geographic data they are managing within an OpenSpace database. OpenSpace is...

MDL launch: the pocket series 'Survey' hand-held laser distance meter that's more than just a laser.
June 1, 2005... The LaserAce[R] Survey allows users to remotely measure heights, lengths, areas, volumes, slopes and gradients. Onboard memory stores results and raw measurements for later analysis and/or downloading to PCs/PDAs using the onboard Bluetooth...

Matrox has the solution.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Matrox Graphics (Montreal, Canada) has announced the release of its new 64-bit SE drivers for Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, for the Matrox Parhelia, Millennium P-Series, QID, and Millennium G-Series product families. The...

A step up for Trimble: the next generation in GPS data capture for GIS.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... The next generation of Trimble's (California, USA) high-accuracy GPS receivers for GIS data capture is now available. The GPS Pathfinder ProXH combines receiver, antenna and battery in a compact, lightweight unit. It uses Bluetooth technology...

Master of the waves.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Applanix (Ontario, Canada) has launched its new compact POS MV WaveMaster (Position and Orientation System for Marine Vessels) at the US Hydro 2005 conference in San Diego, USA. Peter Canter, director of marine products, said, "The new POS MV...

Model behaviour: Zmapping's new, off-the-shelf 3D computer model of London.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... When completed, the model's makers claim it will be "the most detailed and most up to date model of the capital's real estate ever produced." The imagery, captured by Zmapping (London, UK) and processed by BlueSky (Leicestershire, UK), was used...

Virtual shopping.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications HHI (Berlin, Germany) are working on a system that can display high resolution, 360 degree panoramas of any scene in a virtual, cylindrical showroom. Video, static images and sound...

Keep track.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Orange UK (London, UK) has launched a new business service for location solution providers. Called Cell ID, it provides an alternative to GPS for location solution providers to accurately track device location in real-time and retrospectively....

1.3, beta than ever.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... GO Loader, Snowflake Software's (Southampton, UK) application for the modelling, loading and maintenance of GML data into Oracle Spatial database, will support the forthcoming release of OS MasterMap, the company has confirmed. Previous...

Piece of the puzzle.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Working together, GAF AG (Munich, Germany) and its subsidiary, Euromap GmbH (Neustrelitz, Germany), have extended the availability of the IRS orthophoto mosaic, Euro-Maps, from Germany to Austria and Switzerland. Coverage of the whole of Italy...

A new look for Mapsuite+.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... SOKKIA (Europe) B.V. (Almere, the Netherlands) has released Mapsuite+ version 3.0.1, its Windows-based CAD program for surveying, mapping and civil engineering applications. Based on three basic modules, survey, earthworks and design, this...

Oce can you see.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Oce (Florida, USA) has launched a new software package, Oce Doc Works Pro, which helps in-plant printshops and commercial printers achieve greater workflow productivity and better operation management through capabilities such as central...

Greater support from ER Mapper.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... New from ER Mapper (Perth, Australia) comes ER Mapper version 7.0. This release includes a host of new and improved features including lossless and lossy image compression, saving at bit-depths between 1-28 and productivity wizards such as...

Picture perfect.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... HP (California, USA) has announced the launch of two new HP Designjet printers for the GIS market: the HP Designjet 70 and HP Designjet 110plus. The 70 model has a print width of up to 458mm, a four ink colour system, 1200 dpi resolution and...

Geomedia grows: version 6.0 of Intergraph's (Alabama, USA) GeoMedia suite of desktop and web products is now available.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... The GeoMedia family consists of 17 applications tailored for regional and local government, national and federal government, military and intelligence, utilities, communications, photogrammetry and transportation markets. They can be used to...

Technisyst choose Telmap.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Telmap (Herzlia, Israel) has been selected by Technisyst Pty Ltd (Brisbane, Australia) to supply a fleet management services solution. Technisyst is a systems integrator for wireless communications in New Zealand and Australia. Telmap's fleet...

Hitching a ride.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
June 1, 2005... Plans to levy a toll on drivers in German cities has created something of a stir, even though the regulations for the introduction of congestion charges have not yet come into force. PTV (Karlsruhe, Germany) believes that its RideShare system...

A grand survey: Fugro deploys SHOALS-1000T to acquire bathymetry data of Colorado River.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... In November 2004, the United States Army Corps of Engineers contracted Fugro Pelagos (California, USA) to conduct a helicopter-based Airborne LIDAR Bathymetry (ALB) survey of a portion of the Colorado River, within the Grand Canyon, for the...

Atkins to assist EEA.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... A team from Atkins (Surrey, UK) has won a [euro]1 million contract to assist the European Environment Agency (EEA) in developing its GIS and spatial data infrastructure (SDI). Atkins Geospatial experts in both the UK and Denmark will work under...

Fighting disease with maps.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Digital satellite data of Luanda, Angola, taken as part of the Epidemio project is being used to help the World Health Organisation (WHO) fight the Marburg virus. Epidemio is an international project for the vectorisation and classification of...

Million Dollar MAPS.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... MAPS geosystems (Munich, Germany) has received two awards from its partner, DigitalGlobe (Colorado, USA); the "Million Dollar" and "Business Partner of the Year--Innovation" awards were presented as part of DigitalGlobe's annual ceremony in...

Mapping our migration: a new study will use DNA samples to track and map human migration.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... The National Geographic Society and IBM (New York, USA) have launched a research initiative that will trace the migratory history of the human species. Titled, the Genographic Project, the five-year research partnership will use laboratory and...

Going global.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Tecnologias para Infraestructuras de Datos Especiales (TelDE), a consortium of Spanish universities has announced it will be working on a number of international Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) projects. Among the activities which TelDE will...

Egnos to be tested on space station.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... On the next Soyuz flight to the International Space Station, Italian European Space Agency astronaut, Roberto Vittori, will perform a series of technology experiments called ENEIDE--Esperimento di Navigazione per Evento Italiano Dimostrativo di...

Navcom expands in Africa.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... NavCom Technology (California, USA) has signed Young, Stuart & Associates (South Africa) as the southern and central African regions dealer of its GPS and wireless products including the positioning service of the StarFire Network. Young,...

Happy Earth Day.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Space Imaging (Denver, USA) has released an IKONOS image of the North Carolina coastal wetlands, in celebration of Earth Day 2005. As part of George Bush's wetlands initiative, announced on Earth Day 2004, the US Fish and Wildlife service has...

Seeing the wood for the trees.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Intermap Technologies (Denver, USA) has been awarded [euro]352,000 by the Canadian government's National Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) for further research and development of the company's X and P-Band radar...

Improving collection capabilities.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Ordnance Survey (Southampton, UK) has ordered multiple copies of BAE Systems (California, USA) SOCET for ArcGIS product. The decision follows a European Union procurement process by Ordnance Survey to find a 3D data editing and capture tool...

Prioleau joins Telcontar.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... Marc Prioleau has been appointed vice president of marketing for Telcontar (California, USA), he brings over 20 years experience in technology marketing, including ten years in the LBS market. Previously Prioleau led the consumer and enterprise...

Geological maps for Madagascar.(NEWS)
June 1, 2005... GAF AG (Munich, Germany), in co-operation with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources of Germany (BGR), has been awarded a consulting service contract for geological mapping within the Mineral Resources Management Project...

Stock watch: a short summary of recent stock market events and emerging GI related business information.
June 1, 2005... Oce N.V., (OCENY) reports revenues increased by 25%--a result of the successful sales of the renewed range of printing systems. Rokus van Iperen, chairman of the Board of Executive Directors: "Our strategy, whose main thrusts are a...

Binding corporate rules: the issue of international transfers of personal data remains one of the most controversial and complicated areas of EU data protection law.
June 1, 2005... The ban on transfers of data to unsafe jurisdictions has been an ongoing problem for many international organisations since the 1995 data protection directive was adopted. Over the past few months, this issue has become one of the top...

Undersea cable system supply and maintenance: Paul Grant takes US deep down into the ocean to learn how GIS is being used for routing undersea networks.
June 1, 2005... The amount of spatial data collected during the design, installation, and maintenance of an undersea telecommunications network is of titanic proportions. Between mapping thousands of kilometers of the ocean floor and laying an equivalent...

GIS--the key to managing the mobile network: Jim Baumann explains the links between a communications network, mapping and visualisation.
June 1, 2005... As the use of mobile telephony continues to expand exponentially, so follows the development of the infrastructure necessary to manage and support its growth. With its ability to manage, analyze, and display spatial data, GIS provides the ideal...

The Hellenic railway line on the fast track: discover how GPS is playing an important role in the development of the Greek railway.
June 1, 2005... Surveyors recently played a crucial role in upgrading the 240-kilometer rail link from the city of Thessaloniki in Greece's northeastern Thrace region to the Turkish border. Their challenge: to create a three-dimensional land survey for real...

Geospatial data access: debates and delays in citizen-based mapping.
June 1, 2005... INSPIRE -- the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe--is the latest incarnation of the pan-European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI) and focus of a draft Directive of the European Commission, now making its way through the...

GIS and SAP Enterprise Services Architecture: linking business systems to spatial data continues to grow. Dirk Frohling explains how to utilize GIS data and functionality in a process-oriented environment.
June 1, 2005... In the utility sector in Germany there is a clear focus shift from GIS documentation to GIS data usage. Enormous efforts have been made to document supply and disposal networks, and most companies are now ready to make actual use of this data...

The Africa Atlas: maps provide a powerful means for expressing and sharing information. Hugh Williams explains how African information is reaching across the vast lands of Africa and to the rest of the world--by map.
June 1, 2005... If you see both a map of the outbreak of AIDS in Africa, and a spreadsheet with the same information--which is more effective? Does one create more impact than the other? The map communicates more quickly and effectively. A map helps build...

FIG Working Week 2005 & GSDI-8, Cairo, Egypt: 'from pharaohs to geomatics' provided the theme for a world class gathering in an unique setting.
June 1, 2005... The sumptuous Intercontinental Semiramis Hotel in the heart of the Egyptian capital played host to April's combined FIG Working Week 2005 and 8th Conference on the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-8). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Studying key relationships.(MIDDLE EAST NEWS IN BRIEF)
June 1, 2005... A new study aims to provide fresh insight into key relationships between climate, water availability and human activity in semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The five-year project is getting under way at the...

GIS helps attract new settlers.(MIDDLE EAST NEWS IN BRIEF)
June 1, 2005... The municipal council of Kokhav Yair in central Israel (pop. 10,000 and home to former prime minister Ehud Barak) has added a new database application to its website whereby employees and local residents can access a variety of geographic...

Updated mapping from NAVTEQ.(MIDDLE EAST NEWS IN BRIEF)
June 1, 2005... NAVTEQ a leading provider of navigable mapping and location-based solutions, has added new roads and updated attributes and geometry on existing roads in its maps of the following Middle East countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, the United...

Hiking/biking portal: Ian Baugh explains how GPS and GIS are being used online in Kent County, England.
June 1, 2005... The County of Kent is considered the Garden of England. Located along the coast to the southeast of London, Kent is crisscrossed by the largest network of footpaths, and other off-road trails in the United Kingdom. Many of these routes cross...

Interview: Chris Brackley; Managing Director, Landmark Solutions, UK.(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Landmark Solutions was formed in 1995 and has grown consistently. The company is part of the Landmark Group, providing a range of products including environmental reports, mapping, planning and environmental risk information. With increased...

National mapping under the international spotlight: geographically their areas of work may be very different, but the challenges facing national mapping organisations (NMOS) across the world are remarkably similar. Aiding the global exchange of ideas, experience and best practice lies at the heart of Ordnance Survey's International Engagement programme.
June 1, 2005... "Historically our expertise has been sought across the world. We've carried out work in 60 countries on four continents, assisting in projects as diverse as smoothing the transition of land registry systems from state to private ownership,...

Lessons by mobile learning: Ron van Lammeren takes a close look at a new teaching approach with mobile technologies.
June 1, 2005... A consortium of two Dutch universities, Wageningen University, Wageningen and Free University, Amsterdam, started in 2003 with the MANOLO-project founded by the Dutch National Organization SURF. The SURF foundation supports innovation and...

Geospatial metadata Part 2; In Part 1 we discussed why metadata are created: for two separate reasons, 1) to manage resources internally and 2) to publish and sell resources in the exterior.
June 1, 2005... Now let us look at the who and the how, in our endevour to innovate beyond the "digital library" status quo, to make metadata easier and more valuable. Who creates metadata? I have been told, in no uncertain manner, by certain geodata...

"We will not be all things to all people": Halsey Wise spells out the next phase of Intergraph's strategic gameplan.
June 1, 2005... Showers and sunny intervals greeted the 1200 delegates from 56 countries that arrived in San Francisco, California, for Intergraph's Geospatial World 2005 Conference during April 26-28. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CEO Halsey Wise opened...

Data warehousing--the integrated approach: Per Hampus outlines the case for spatial database driven for the Spatial Enterprise.
June 1, 2005... Today many GIS organisations are moving over from GIS based data storage to database centric solutions, which provide GIS for the whole enterprise. Organisations are moving towards becoming 'Spatial Enterprises' driven from within and...

Le Geo evenement 2005--Paris, France: Le Geo evenement 2005 was held in Paris, France March 30 to April 1 at the port de Versailles conference hall area. Nearly 500 attended the event from all parts of the globe and from a broad cross-section of the geospatial industry.
June 1, 2005... STAR INFORMATIC was out in full force (with APIC4, WinSTAR GIS, NeXt, Mobile STAR and their improved and expanded MERCATOR product) alongside their new partners from Laser-Scan. Both are now partners, offering Oracle related product services;...

Diary & events.(Calendar)
June 1, 2005... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR EVENT INCLUDED ON THIS PAGE PLEASE EMAIL THE DETAILS TO rosiewaddicor@geoconnexion.com June 2005 5-10, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 3rd Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment...

CPC.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... CPC (Malmesbury, UK) has won a contract with BlueSky International (Leicestershire, UK) to produce DVD packages of Photoscape, a computer-generated 3D map of the country. The deal involves the production of thousands of DVD packages for both...

DAT/EM Systems International.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... DAT/EM Systems International (Alaska, USA) has hired Julie Perilla as a software engineer within the software engineering team. Perilla has previously worked for AceCad Software and Bentley Systems and has knowledge of C and C++ as well as Java...

Cartographic Institute of Catalonia.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... The Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (ICC) has purchased a Z/I Imaging Digital Mapping Camera (DMC) from Intergraph (Alabama, USA). The camera will enable the ICC, the official mapping and geological agency of the Catalonian government, to...

Eurocontrol.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... Eurocontrol the European organisation dedicated to air traffic management, has selected IONIC (Grace--Hollogne, Belgium) to build a pilot application as part of an effort to evaluate the value of ISO/OGC interoperable web services in providing...

Fujitsu Siemens Computers.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Munich, Germany) and Mobeon (Stockholm, Sweden) are teaming up to provide video messaging to telecoms operators and service providers via Fujitsu Siemens Computers IP Message Manager product. Built on standard...

Volkswagen.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... The Volkswagen website has deployed Multimap's (London, UK) "In-line" service which will allow customers to locate their nearest Volkswagen retailer and view the results on a map. Marianne Nicholas, relationship marketing manager at Volkswagen,...

Ordnance Survey Ireland.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi. Dublin, Ireland) has recently completed an update paper on developments with its data and database. The paper, entitled "Developing Ireland's National Mapping: A progress report", along with previous updates, is...

REALVIZ.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... REALVIZ (Sophia Antipolis, France) has appointed DCP Systems Ltd (Sheffield, UK) as the latest UK reseller of its panorama software, Stitcher 4 and Stitcher Express. DCP Systems specialises in digital wide format systems and solutions for...

SiRF Technology Holdings.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... A definitive agreement has been signed by SiRF Technology Holdings (California, USA) stating that it will acquire Kisel Microelectronics, AB (Stockholm, Sweden), a design house for integrated transceiver circuits. "The design of RF transceivers...

Tekla Group.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... Results from Tekla Group (Espoo, Finland): net sales for January-March 2005 came to [euro]8.02 million; excluding the customer information system operations divested in September 2004, net sales for the corresponding quarter in 2004 were 7.25...

WeDo Soft.(BUSINESS)
June 1, 2005... WeDo Soft (Lisbon, Portugal) has been awarded a contract to implement its Revenue Assurance solution (RAID) for the mobile operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp. z o.o. (PTC, Warsaw, Poland), RAID will allow PTC to implement automated and...

ArtSystems.(HARDWARE)
June 1, 2005... ArtSystems (Nottingham, UK) are now supplying iiyama's (Japan) range of GraphicPro LCD monitors, specifically designed for professional applications, following an agreement between the two companies. The GraphicPro series, available in 19",...

Leica Geosystems.(HARDWARE)
June 1, 2005... The metrology division of Leica Geosystems (Unterentfelden, Switzerland) is now shipping its new local positioning product, the Leica T-Scan hand scanner. The T-Scan provides high-speed data capture of complex object surfaces, and strategically...

Mutoh Europe.(HARDWARE)
June 1, 2005... Mutoh Europe (Oostende, Belgium) has launched a new series of direct to-vinyl high-performance mild-solvent printers, called the Mutoh SPITFIRE series. Offered in two models, 1653mm (65") and 2280 mm (90"), the Spitfire printers are capable of...

Sequoia.(HARDWARE)
June 1, 2005... Following a new agreement, Sequoia (Reading, UK) is now able to offer the Telit GM862 series of cellular engines in dual-band GSM-only and GSM/GPRS versions as well as a tri-band PCS/GPRS versions. Features of the GPRS-based terminals include...

Thales Navigation.(HARDWARE)
June 1, 2005... Thales Navigation (Carquefou, France) has launched three new handheld GPS navigation systems for its Magellan eXplorist series the eXplorist 400, eXplorist 500 and the eXplorist 600. The new models offer positioning, high-level functionality...

Avenza Systems.(SOFTWARE)
June 1, 2005... Avenza Systems (Toronto, Canada) is to make available internet-accessible floating or networked licenses of MAPublisher 6 for Adobe Illustrator. The new licence format allows access to MAPublisher and all its functionality via remote access to...

Encom Technology.(SOFTWARE)
June 1, 2005... Encom Technology (Sydney, Australia) has launched a fully integrated 3D solution for MapInfo Professional users, Engage3D. The product can display MapInfo maps, gridded surfaces, points, lines, volume models and 3D DXF objects; it can also be...

ER Mapper.(SOFTWARE)
June 1, 2005... ER Mapper's (Perth, Australia) RightWebMap 7.0 is a rapid deployment, client-side solution to integrate multiple GIS and image services into a single application view. RightWebMap simultaneously accesses disparate datasources including OGC Web...

Fastrax.(SOFTWARE)
June 1, 2005... The latest versions of Fastrax iSuite 3 SDK and iTrax03 GPS receiver firmware are now available from Fastrax (Helsinki, Finland). Both have new features and enhancements to improve GPS reception in difficult environments such as cities. The new...