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The 7th International Scientific & Technical Conference with the title "From Imagery to Map: Digital Photogrammetric Technologies" was held in Nessebar, Bulgaria between 17th and 20th September 2007. The Conference was organised jointly by the Racurs and GIS-Sofia companies from Russia and Bulgaria respectively. The previous six conferences in the series had been held as International PHOTOMOD Users Conferences - PHOTOMOD being the principal software product from the Racurs company. The change in the Conference title reflected the desire of the organisers to widen the scope of the meeting with speakers and participants from Western Europe and from Racurs' partners in Russia and elsewhere.

Intergeo 2007, once again the top industry gathering, took place in Saxony in one of the oldest and most famous fair sites, the Leipzig Fair – Leipziger Messe. There is no doubt that the Leipzig Fair’s famous Glass House – an extraordinary steel and glass architectural masterpiece – was a significant attraction at Intergeo 2007. This event, which integrates international conference with trade fair, had more than 16,500 visitors and delegates from over 50 countries. Leipzig’s Intergeo 2007 was the largest assembly of the various industry sectors this year.

Geographic information can be crucial in police investigations. A strategic study resulted in defining the requirements and the best strategy to move forwards with the GIS vision for the British Transport Police. Reason enough for the Force to partner with Aligned Assets to create a pioneering solution.

In the beginning of the summer this year, a large fire in the area of the Mount Parnitha National Park near Athens in Greece resulted in the loss of approximately 5,000 ha of forest area, shrublands and agricultural land. Considering the extent and the consequences of the damage caused by the large fire, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki began to collaborate with national authorities to provide all the necessary information to develop forest protection and restoration plans.

Intergeo 2007, once again the top industry gathering, took place in Saxony in one of the oldest and most famous fair sites, the Leipzig Fair – Leipziger Messe. There is no doubt that the Leipzig Fair’s famous Glass House – an extraordinary steel and glass architectural masterpiece – was a significant attraction at Intergeo 2007. This event, which integrates international conference with trade fair, had more than 16,500 visitors and delegates from over 50 countries. Leipzig’s Intergeo 2007 was the largest assembly of the various industry sectors this year.

ArcGIS Server 9.2 is announced to be the first GIS enterprise application server that implements GIS business logic in an information technology standards-based server environment. Therefore it draws upon the full spatial enablement of an enterprise. It is an answer to the integration of GIS functionality in business processes where the spatial view is critical as well as for the creation of added-value from existing information within business processes.

Alligned Assets is a small company compared to the large solution providers in the Local Government market. Still NLPG / NSG solutions led to success. Addressing the Issues with Andy Hird, Professional Services Manager at Aligned Assets

In the previous article the importance of chart projections was described. An important aspect of projecting information from an ellipsoid on a flat surface is that the information will be distorted. In this article some of these distortions and their effect on calculations will be described.

In order for it to be shared, information needs to be defined in such a way that no confusion about its content is possible. Within the geo-sector it is a matter of information about geographic objects, also called features or geo-features. Not only the type of object is recorded, but also its properties or attributes and its relations with other features.