GEO: connexion articles from March 2002

GEO: connexion archives from March 2002

Safety first. (Up Front).(security concerns in the post-September 11 world)
March 1, 2002... At a time when the events of 9/11 continue to reverberate - most recently with the decision of New York governor, George Pataki, to order the removal of maps from State public Web sites for fear they might aid terrorist attacks - it seems...

Ministerial send-off for Envisat. (News).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Just as Brigitte Zypries was reaffirming German government commitment to Europe's Galileo satellite navigation project (see Wolfgang Steinborn's column in this issue - Ed), so a British government minister was praising ENVISAT, an all-European...

After the deluge... (News).
March 1, 2002... ... another deluge, this time of data, as satellite imagery of catastrophic floods in France was processed by the national space agency, CNES, for onward transmission to civil protection teams. These scenes of the Meuse basin in the...

When GPS gets under your skin. (News).(approval sought for human implantation of satellite tracking device)(global positioning system)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The prospect of a human implant satellite tracking device moved a step closer with an announcement from Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions that it is to seek approval from the US Food & Drug Administration to market its VeriChip implant....

Out and about. (News).(UK Cabinet Minister Patricia Hewitt checks on Ordnance Survey's latest surveying tools)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... UK Cabinet Minister Patricia Hewitt called in on staff at Ordnance Survey's Keele office in Staffordshire, England, to see how the latest field surveying tools are helping speed the updating of British maps. The Secretary of State for Trade and...

US tug-of-war over satmaps. (News).(NASA and US Department of Defense are at loggerheads)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The repercussions of September 11 continue, with the online publication, Wired News' reporting that NASA is at loggerheads with the US Department of Defense over plans to make the most detailed topographic map of the Earth ever produced...

Charter group spearheads disaster monitoring. (News).(Spot Image acquires imagery for International Charter on Space and Major Disasters)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Spot Image of Toulouse, France, is exploiting the programming and daily revisit capability of its three SPOT satellites to acquire imagery of any point on Earth for the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. Next month's launch of...

Leica braces for job cuts. (News).(Leica Geosystems)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems is axeing 150 staff or five per cent of its workforce in response to the global economic downturn. Half of the cuts will affect the company's Switzerland-based staff, the aim being to achieve redundancies on a voluntary...

Fraud and burglary: the high-tech way. (News).
March 1, 2002... As if Britain's criminal justice system doesn't have enough to cope with, this month brings news of the way fraudsters and burglars are exploiting geodata to their own ends. One such case, brought to light in a recent report from the...

Aerial warfare sparks new battle of Britain. (News).(Getmapping and Ordnance Survey are in a dispute)
March 1, 2002... A simmering dispute between aerial photography provider, Getmapping plc and Britain's national mapping agency, Ordnance Survey, has entered a new phase with the commencement of legal proceedings. In a lengthy press statement, Getmapping of...

Gita probes GIS expectations and results in 5th annual report. (News).(Geospatial Information & Technology Association)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) has published The Geospatial Technology Report-2001: A Survey of Organizations Implementing Geospatial Information Technologies. This 5th annual, published on CD, details the...

Yeoman launches world's first navigation-via-cellphone service. (Location Based Services News).
March 1, 2002... Mobile navigation specialist YEOMAN has launched its eagerly awaited personal navigation service in Britain. Known as VoxNav, the nation-wide service is claimed to be the world's first that enables motorists to access route planning, traffic...

New partnership targets European LBS market. (Location Based Services News).(GIStec GmbH, Intergraph Mapping's IntelliWhere division and GIS Solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... GIStec GmbH of Darmstadt, Germany, and the IntelliWhere division of Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions have partnered to address opportunities in the European LBS market. The companies will collaborate in developing innovative...

Inbox.(finding emergency help on the road, geo-corrected data, improving the quality of National Street Gazetteer)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2002... Sir, Further to your report concerning the sad loss of life at Ulverston, Cumbria (GEO:news February). There is a much more easily implementable solution for some emergency situations. For example, mobile phones are increasingly used to...

Euro handy facts. (News).(Trans-european Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) payment system)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... How does the European Central Bank facilitate cross-border money transactions? Its key instrument for this purpose is TARGET (Trans-european Automated Real-time Gross settlement Express Transfer). This payment system enables the...

The EC Joint Research Centre. (Awards).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The EC Joint Research Centre has awarded a contract for the development of geographic databases in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland to ERA-Maptec Ltd.

The Pyreneees-Orientales authority in France. (Awards).(let mapping contract to BEGE)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Pyreneees-Orientales authority in France has awarded a topographic mapping services contract to BEGE based in Toulouges.

The Italian Ministry of the Environment. (Awards).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Italian Ministry of the Environment has awarded Fugro Oceansismica SpA a contract for marine survey services.

Italy's Institute of Military Mapping. (Awards).(Hansa Luftbild Consulting International won contract)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Italy's Institute of Military Mapping has awarded a contract for aerial mapping services to Hansa Luftbild Consulting International.

Phillips Petroleum Company Norway. (Awards).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Phillips Petroleum Company Norway has awarded Svitzer Ltd a contract for seismic survey services.

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office. (Awards).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office has awarded a contract for the provision of a new interim electronic nautical chart production system to Hydroservices AS.

Hertfordshire County Council. (Awards).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Also in the UK, Hertfordshire County Council has awarded Cad-Capture Ltd a contract for the provision of digitised maps and plans of Council sites.

Germanys Land Baden-Wurttemberg. (Awards).(contracts with GI Geoinformatik GmbH)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Germanys Land Baden-Wurttemberg has placed a digital mapping contract with GI Geoinformatik GmbH.

Global Geomatics sets its sights on Europe. (Business Xtra).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Hot on the heels of Intermap (see February's GEO:news), another North American company arrived in Britain last month, this time to establish a dedicated European sales operation. With its sights set squarely on the defence sector,...

Results... (News).(Intergraph Corp.'s revenues )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Intergraph Corp., posted a Q4 profit of [euro]1.8 million on revenues of [euro]l52.3 million. An after-tax gain on the sale of assets plus other income boosted net income for the quarter to [euro]13.6 million. These results push income...

PriceWatch. (news).(statistics )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... PriceWatch stock price change Autodesk [euro]48.51 [up arrow] +3.46 Intergraph [euro]15.97 [down arrow] -0.06 MapInfo [euro]11.34 [down arrow] -0.06 Trimble Navigation...

Binnie Black & Veatch. (BBV 2001 Review).(2001 review )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Binnie Black & Veatch, specialist in managing infrastructure projects world-wide, has published its review for 2001. More information from the company's Web site at www.bbv-ltd.com

In the pink with Carte Sanitaire. (Middle East).(Khatib & Alami's integrates system into Ministry of Public Health)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Khatib & Alami, a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company based in Beirut, Lebanon, has completed a phased implementation of CARTE SANITAIRE, a map-based health care system, for Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health....

NIMA ends Afghanistan Space Imagery contract. (Middle East).(National Imagery and Mapping Agency)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) has confirmed that it will not renew a contract signed last October with Space Imaging of Denver, Colorado. The contract gave NIMA exclusive rights to high-resolution images of Afghanistan...

Space Imaging Middle East. (News Xtra).(price reductions )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Space Imaging Middle East of Dubai, UAE, has announced price reductions on all orders placed this year in respect of its Geo 1-Meter Colour Products. The process whereby customers can take full advantage of the imagery has also been improved....

GEO 2002. (News Xtra).(5th Middle East Geoscience Conference and Exhibition)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... GEO 2002, the 5th Middle East Geoscience Conference and Exhibition will be held in Bahrain, 15-17 April 2002. Since its launch in 1 994, the event has been supported by national oil companies of the Gulf Cooperation Council and other Middle...

Looking to the heavens for help on earth. (Middle East).(search for groundwater in United Arab Emirates)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A team led by Professor Farouk EI-Baz, director of the Center for Remote sensing at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA, is conducting a three-year research project sponsored by the government of Sharjah that aims to locate new sources of...

GISTEC. (UAE Update).(listing of licensed Web sites for United Arab Emirates)(Directory)
March 1, 2002... Since the article Leading the chase in the United Arab Emirates was published in the Dec/Jan issue of GEO:connexion, GISTEC has provided an updated listing of ESRI/ERDAS-licensed sites for the who's Who? table. We are pleased to include it here...

Israel's BioGIS forges ahead. (Middle East).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... BioGIS, an online mapping resource to the flora and fauna of Israel, is being extended by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from a prototype into a fully operational, national biodiversity information system. [euro]320,000 funding for...

GIS: a light in the darkness. (Africa).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Located in that sub-Saharan region of Africa known as the Sahel, the Republic of Senegal is home to a population of about 10 million, of which more than half lives in rural areas. The electrification rate in these areas currently stands at...

Tanzania hosts ISPRS workshop. (Africa).(International Society for Programmetry and Remote Sensing)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... An International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) workshop is being held in Dar es Saalam, Tanzania, later this month (25-28 March) with the theme: Developments and Technology Transfer in Geomatics for Environmental and...

GIS research unit seeks global links. (Africa).(geographic information systems, at University of Cape Town, South Africa)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The University of Cape Town has opened its first GIS Research Unit. Housed in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, it is headed by Prof Heinz Ruther. GIS education has been an integral part of the Faculty curriculum since...

Academic network forges closer ties. (Africa).(Geomatics Education Network)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A Geomatics Education Network has been established to link academics in developed and developing countries. The move establishes formal links between the Universities of Nairobi (Nigeria), Oar es Saalam (Tanzania), Cape Town (South Africa) and...

Keeping score at Stamford Bridge. (Connect).(Digital Mapping Show)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Roberto Di Matteo may have stunned Chelsea FC fans by announcing his retirement from football, but it didn't stop the Digital Mapping Show from invading the hallowed turf at Stamford Bridge last month for the first in a series of two-day...

How time flies! (Connect).(10th anniversary of GISRUK, Geographic Information Systems Research United Kingdom)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... It seems like only yesterday that a group of British academics dreamt up the idea of a conference devoted solely to academic GIS research... and suddenly GISRUK finds itself celebrating its tenth anniversary. This year's conference will...

Intergraph. (Snippets).(cash prizes for its first contest for users of its software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Cash prizes totalling US$2,500 are on offer to contestants entering Intergraph's first annual international Awards for Cartographic Excellence. Free entry is extended to professionals and students alike - provided they use Intergraph...

The annual User Group meeting. (Snippets).(Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. UK and CAPS Solutions)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The annual User Group meeting sponsored by ESRI (UK) and sister company CAPS Solutions, undergoes a transformation in that this year's event is being combined with a series of professionally-staged regional showcases, Location 2002 (visit...

Leica Geosystems. (Snippets).(user group meeting announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Leica Geosystems User Group Meeting (UGM '02) is scheduled for 18-23 August in San Diego, California, USA. With Leica's recent integration of ERDAS and LH Systems, UGM '02 builds on the popular LH User Group Meeting and Aerial Camera...

Geospatial Information & Technology Association. (GITA Brings it all Together).(annual conference announcement)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) celebrates its 25th annual conference March 1 7-20, 2002, at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Regarded as one of the premier educational events for geoinformation...

MIS 2002. (GITA Brings it all Together).(management information systems, Geospatial Information and Technology Association)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Halkidiki in Greece provides the setting for MIS 2002, the Third International Conference on Management Information Systems Incorporating GIS and Remote Sensing. Scheduled for 24-26 April, the event is organised by Britain's Wessex...

Getting streetwise, the AGI way. (Community).(Association for Geographic Information)
March 1, 2002... The name of a Street is of fundamental importance to all within society, whether for locating family and friends, delivering mail or other goods, or for ensuring the timely arrival of emergency services or social welfare. However you view it, a...

Bonn hosts geoinfo summit. (Community).(D21 Congress on Geoinformation and the Economy 2002)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A time of going to press, delegates from across Germany were on their way to Bonn for D21-Kongress Geoinformationswirtschaft 2002 (D21-Congress on Geoinformation and the Economy 2002). The event -- part of the Federal government's D21...

Location 2002: coming to a city near you! (Community).(in the UK)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Location 2002, a free multidimensional, multi-location event is being lined up for four major population centres across Britain. Its lively and dynamic open exhibition/seminar environment will seek to educate a wide diversity of people...

EUROGI update. (Community).(European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information)
March 1, 2002... The European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information is holding its Annual General Meeting, 18-19 March, in Luxembourg. Members will gather to discuss topics relating to GI policies, including those that impact on society as a whole in...

Bulgaria: opportunity knocks for GIS. (Community).(geographic information systems)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Representatives from more than 160 public and private sector institutions gathered in Sofia in late January for a Forum on CIS Trends in Bulgaria. Hosted by SICAD Geomatics and local SICAD and PCI Geomatics representative, Stalker-KM Ltd,...

Senior appointment at Sysdeco. (People).
March 1, 2002... K. Henrik Hagness has joined Sysdeco Mapmill's headquarters in Oslo as Technical Sales Manager. In this role, he assumes sales and support responsibility for key customers and will also evaluate new market segments at home and abroad. The...

Presidential move at RSI. (People).
March 1, 2002... Canada-based RADARSAT International (RSI), a subsidiary of MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates (MDA), has appointed Phil S. Gray as its new President. He succeeds Roland Knight, who has moved to MDA's Information Products Group as Operations...

Taking control at Trimble. (People).
March 1, 2002... Anup V. Singh has been appointed Corporate Controller at Trimble, succeeding Bonnie Lemon who has left the Sunnyvale, California-based company to pursue other interests. Singh arrives from Excite@Home where he was senior director of...

Leica fills top slots at LH Systems. (People).
March 1, 2002... Leica Geosystems GIS & Mapping Division has appointed Scott Miller and Dr. Ludger Ullrich as Vice Presidents of Airborne Data Acquisition. In this capacity, they take charge of products from the recently acquired LH Systems subsidiary. They...

Puckorius rejoins Orbimage. (People).
March 1, 2002... Timothy J. Puckorius has rejoined Dulles, Virgina-based ORBIMAGE as its Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing and Sales. A 16-year veteran of the remote sensing industry, he will lead the company's global expansion strategy. In his...

Top brass enlist with Paradigm. (People).
March 1, 2002... Lieutenant General Charles B. "Chuck' Eichelberger, US Army (Ret'd) and Major-General Lewis Mackenzie (Ret'd), one of Canada's best known military commentators and authors, have joined the Advisory Board of Toronto-based Paradigm Advanced...

Public sector information: resource or commodity? (European Data Policy).
March 1, 2002... Christopher Roper continues his advocacy of Open Access to government-held information Much of the cost recovery argument is obscured by the fact that some of the most successful examples, in the United Kingdom for example, are based on...

Four legs good, two legs bad... (Dangling Segment).
March 1, 2002... Robert Barr takes issue with those who espouse the cause that private is good, public is bad So ran the mantra in George Orwell's Animal Farm as the pigs took over the farm and instituted a totalitarian regime that was even worse than the...

Getting it together in Bonn. (Central European Eye).
March 1, 2002... Wolfgang Steinborn reports from the D-2l congress on geoinformation and the economy, held last month in Bonn Of the many luminaries that assembled in Bonn's Bundeshaus for this major event, the only one familiar with the podium was Brigitte...

Project Kosovo: Alison Atkins reviews the role of GIS in documenting the search for truth and justice. (Public Safety).(databases to track war crimes being developed)
March 1, 2002... In an ever-increasing global environment of political change and democratization, greater numbers of isolated citizens are becoming displaced from their homes and their livelihoods. Fueled by political instability, the world all too often...

Helping with enquiries. (Public Safety).(survey of UK police departments on use of crime mapping technology)
March 1, 2002... Jon Corcoran presents the findings of a national survey into the uptake and use of crime mapping technology by Britain's police forces Mapping has a long history as a tool for understanding the spatial distributions of crime. It can be...

GIS: deserving closer study? (Public Safety).
March 1, 2002... Spencer Chainey makes the case for GIS in crime reduction strategies Many people question the hotspot analysis of criminal activity as revealing something they already know! Yet recent surveys reveal that this is not usually the case,...

Cycle safe! Can our cities be made safer for more vulnerable road users? Spatial factors will certainly influence the answer. (Public Safety).
March 1, 2002... The research outlined in this article was conducted as part of a broader programme on 'Sustainable Mobility' sponsored between 1 998 and 2000 by the Belgian Federal Service for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (SSTC). This particular...

Between fire, water heaven & earth: Tom Miewald and Nsoyuni Lawrence relate how advanced visualisation and analysis software is helping conservators manage a unique but everchanging natural resource in the heart of Africa. (Visualisation Software).
March 1, 2002... Mount Cameroon in the West African country of the same name and 1 80 miles west of its capital, Yaounde, has the distinction of being the highest mountain in the region, rising to 4,095 meters. It is also internationally famed as a 'hotspot...

Where am I: not always easy to tell when roaming maps and images on-screen. But help is, quite literally, at your fingertips. (Visualisation Software).
March 1, 2002... ... Joe is a defence intelligence analyst and spends much of his time exploring remotely-sensed imagery on a limited-size monitor. Working with large datasets poses the challenge of viewing one area while trying to figure out how it relates to...

Up close and personal: how modern stereo viewing technology helps one company visualise its way to bigger profits. (Visualisation Software).
March 1, 2002... Oil producers walk a fine line between the profitable extraction of oil from known fields and committing time and resources to the development of new deposits. An attractive alternative is to boost productivity and output from existing fields....

A concise guide to European multi-nation metadata initiatives. (Metadata).
March 1, 2002... As the number and diversity of spatial datasets grows by the day, those lacking specific references to or sources for the material they seek may well end up frustrated and empty-handed. This is where metadata -- or "data about data" -- can...

GeoMis.Bund: Germany's metainfosystem for geodata brokerage: Juergen Walther outlines Germany's strategic move to enable public access to Federally-held records. (Metadata).
March 1, 2002... Currently under development, GeoMis.Bund is a geographic metainformation system that will provide data-about-data access to Federally-held information. Taking shape It will take the shape of a broker-based Internet application with...

Survey points to dramatic growth of UK market. (Aerial Photography News).
March 1, 2002... The Business Research Centre has completed the first extensive market survey into the growing aerial photography market. Its study of the public and private sectors, including local authorities and property developers, reveals a dramatic...

Handy companions for the great outdoors: personal navigation and route finding devices. (Hardware).
March 1, 2002... Mike Bedford takes a bearing on hand-portable devices that promise to keep you on the right track Users of electronic and computer equipment have grown to expect that each year will bring more functionality for less money. Even so,...

Autodesk. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Autodesk is extending its Subscription Program to Europe to help customers keep abreast of the company's technology developments. Introduced to the North American market six months ago, the program's annual fee entitles licensed users to...

Cad-Capture. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... All Road Adoption and Development Control Plans handled by the Engineering Services Department at Cheshire County Council in England have been successfully scanned and processed by Cad-Capture. Material was scanned on site with a Colortrac...

UK-based eMapSite has been appointed a reseller of worldwide geospatial datasets and services from LAND INFO International. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... UK-based eMapSite has been appointed a reseller of worldwide geospatial datasets and services from LAND INFO International. Under the agreement, eMapSite will distribute LAND INFO datasets via its on-line service and promote LAND INFO's map...

GGP Systems. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... A GIS supplied by GGP Systems of Croydon, England has been implemented as a contract works management system by Isle of White Council and its street cleansing contractor, Island Waste Services. The system is helping the Council deliver Best...

Getmapping plc. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... UK-based aerial photographic company Getmapping plc is joining forces with Intermap Technologies Inc. In doing so, it will combine 3D data derived from the NEXTMap Britain survey (see last month's CEO:news section) with its Millennium Map....

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions in the Czech Republic has appointed seven new Team GeoMedia Registered Solution Providers in Central and Eastern Europe. They are GCWare spol. and HIS spol.(Czech Republic), Intergraph Computer Services...

Maporama. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Thrifty Car Rentals has selected Maporama to provide a locator function for its web site. Users will be able to pinpoint their nearest Thrifty location on a detailed street-level map and obtain turn-by-turn directions to a destination. The...

QAS. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Saab Great Britain Limited, the UK arm of the Swedish up-market car maker, has selected QuickAddress address management technology from QAS. The software will be integrated into the Siebel CRM employed at Saab's Customer Interaction Centre to...

RADARSAT International (RSI) of British Columbia, Canada, and Jeppesen of Englewood. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... RADARSAT International (RSI) of British Columbia, Canada, and Jeppesen of Englewood, Colorado, USA, have signed an agreement under which RSI will deliver digital elevation data for Jeppesen for its global terrain database. Jeppesen, in turn,...

SICAD Geomatics. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The city of Nagold in Baden-Wurttemberg is using GIS technology from SICAD Geomatics to deliver real estate information to businesses, its own internal departments and the general public. Users of its GD service can access information about...

Snowflake Software. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Snowflake Software, a Licensed Partner of Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS) is offering a consultancy service that specialises in the adoption and usage of OS MasterMap... one that aims to save clients time and money in exploiting this new...

Space Imaging Eurasia. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... The latest regional affiliate of Space imaging - Space Imaging Eurasia - has commenced the direct-tasking and data collection of high resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The company, based in Ankara, Turkey, and also known as INTA...

Tekla Corporation. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Tekla Corporation is to supply its Xpower network information management system to Vattenfail Oy, Finland's largest electricity distributor. Tekla's Xpower supports the operations of energy companies in a versatile way, from graphical planning...

Wallingford Software Ltd. (Business Briefs).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Wallingford Software Ltd of the UK has launched a Malaysian subsidiary as part of its global expansion programme. The Kuala Lumpur-based company, Wallingford Software Sdn Bhd, will concentrate on sales and support of the company's InfoWorks...