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CycloMedia is the Dutch leader in large-scale, systematic visualizations of environments. CycloMedia creates visual databases from public roads using 360° panoramic images known as cycloramas. Every 10 meters a geometrically correct picture is taken by a camera system mounted on the roof of a car. A high-quality positioning system provides the exact geo-reference and orientation for each panoramic image.

In 2006, the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) created a workgroup aimed at achieving the integration of CAD and GIS technologies on the web. In doing this, the OGC continues to develop new standards and extend the ones that already exist. Spatial information can now be exchanged in a better way and can be used for multiple purposes in everyday life. This article shows how, thanks to the efforts of this particular workgroup, CAD and GIS technologies are being integrated, and what this will mean for the OGC in the near future.

The third Trimble Dimensions conference was held in Las Vegas, USA, from November 5 to 7. Based on the location one could surmise that the event was a less then serious one. In reality, however, it was quite the opposite.

The COSIT 2007 International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, organized by Stephan Winter, Matt Duckham, Lars Kulik and Ben Kuipers, brought together researchers from many different disciplines including computer science, spatial information, geography, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics and philosophy.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Spain faces very important challenges for sustainable development: significant infrastructure expansion and huge urban and tourist-oriented residential pressures need to be fitted into a structure of adequate environmental impact evaluation and minimization.

Site inspections, identifying possible restriction zones and spotting potential problems can be a time consuming business for any professional who has to survey property or land around the country. Add to this travel time and manpower, and the costs soon start to escalate. A new development in aerial photography, however, is making life easier for these professionals. It involves the systematic capture of oblique aerial photos and is managed in new software technology to provide a 3D viewing experience.

English Heritage has a wide-ranging role to understand, protect and promote the country’s historic environment for the benefit and enjoyment of all. Helping them achieve this is the Archaeological Survey and Investigation Team based at offices in Exeter, Swindon, Cambridge and York. The teams work across all periods, surveying everything of interest from prehistoric monuments thousands of years old to military installations from the Cold War now under threat of destruction.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Spain faces very important challenges for sustainable development: significant infrastructure expansion and huge urban and tourist-oriented residential pressures need to be fitted into a structure of adequate environmental impact evaluation and minimization.

Insurers face their biggest UK flood bill in 20 years, with claims set to top 2 billion pounds after intense rain left swathes of central, northern and southern England under water. The bill from flooding across the central counties of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire is likely to run into hundreds of millions of pounds, which comes on top of an estimated bill of 1.5 billion pounds from earlier flooding in June that hit central and northern England and caused chaos in the cities of Sheffield and Hull.