In the Spotlight

Without doubt the biggest news during Intergraph’s User Conference 2010 in Las Vegas, was the announcement of CEO Halsey Wise and COO Reid French stepping back from the company, to give way to President and CEO Ola Rolen of Hexagon AB, while still in the last process of acquiring Intergraph.

The medieval church of San Giacomo in Maspiano, Italy, is to be restored. Until recently, no complete plans of the structure existed.

The plenary sessions of Esri's User Conference 2010, held on monday July 12th, are online. These presentations were attended by some 15,000 people, while several professional cameras were pointed at the main stage, to provide footage for the supporting video screens. It is from this material, that Esri selected  four highlights for internet TV.

Capturx for ArcGIS enables mobile teams to easily collect data on paper maps using digital pens, which automatically scan the handwriting and integrate the data into ArcGIS. Important GIS data and updates can be routed from the field through Bluetooth and cell phones for immediate sharing.

Inspirational visionary Jan Van Sickle of Van Sickle LLC speaks on GIS, GPS GNSS and the role of imagery during Esri's Imagery@UC 2010 in San Diego.

The First day of the Esri s00User Conference has ended. Keynote speaker Richard Saul Wurman spoke about his project 192021 (nineteen, twenty, twenty-one: 19 cities and 20 million citizens in the 21st century) which tries to get a hold on the phenomenon ‘City’.

Cape Town Stadium is one of the 10 host venues for the 19th FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Several matches will be played at this stadium with a capacity of 70,000, the first on 11 June when Uruguay will be facing France.

The Western Penobscot Bay region of Maine is one of the most scenic areas in the Northeast United States and continues to be a favorite destination for travelers during the summer tourist season. With abundant water resources and forestland, the region is a natural haven for a wide variety of wildlife species, including eagles, seals, nesting sea birds, dolphins, and more. Coastal Mountains Land Trust has been working to permanently conserve land to benefit the natural and human communities in fifteen towns in this region since 1986.

Ashtech introduced the ProFlex 500 CORS, an advanced, multifunctional Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) designed to collect, store and transmit high quality GNSS data for multiple applications, including a CORS and a field campaign receiver, for either post-processed or RTK applications.