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GeoInformatics is the leading publication for Geospatial Professionals worldwide. Published in both hardcopy and digital, GeoInformatics provides coverage, analysis and commentary with respect to the international surveying, mapping and GIS industry. GeoInformatics is published 8 times a year. Editor-in-chief Eric van Rees evanrees@geoinformatics.com Copy Editor Elaine Eisma Editors Florian Fischer ffischer@geoinformatics.com Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk hlekkerkerk@geoinformatics.com Remco Takken rtakken@geoinformatics.com Joc Triglav jtriglav@geoinformatics.com Contributing Writers: Cornelius König, Saviour Formosa, Elaine Sciberras, Janice Formosa Pace, Luigi Colombo, Barbara Marana, Bonnie Bogle, Henk Key, Jim Baumann, Remco Takken, Gregory Marler. Columnists Raj Singh, Matt Sheehan Finance finance@cmedia.nl Marketing & Sales Ruud Groothuis rgroothuis@geoinformatics.com Subscriptions GeoInformatics is available against a yearly subscription rate (8 issues) of € 89,00. To subscribe, fill in and return the electronic reply card on our website www.geoinformatics.com Webstite www.geoinformatics.com Graphic Design Sander van der Kolk svanderkolk@geoinformatics.com ISSN 13870858 © Copyright <strong>2012</strong>. GeoInformatics: no material may be reproduced without written permission. P.O. Box 231 8300 AE Emmeloord The Netherlands Tel.: +31 (0) 527 619 000 Fax: +31 (0) 527 620 989 E-mail: services@geoinformatics.com GeoInformatics has a collaboration with the Council of European Geodetic Surveyors (CLGE) whereby all individual members of every national Geodetic association in Europe will receive the magazine. About Intergeo In this issue you will find coverage on the biggest geospatial trade fair in the industry, namely the annual Intergeo Conference and Trade Fair. The event has changed a lot in the last few years and will, more than likely, continue to change in the future. The event gives a good overview of the current state of the industry, which, of course, is no different from how other industries are doing in the current economic climate. There have been a lot of mergers and acquisitions by the major surveying and GIS companies, which is reflected in the decreased number of exhibitors. For example, the acquisitions of Trimble and Hexagon. Software companies were a different story at Intergeo: only Esri had a large booth, whereas Bentley Systems was no longer present at the trade fair at all. Autodesk used to have a very large booth, but is it really appropriate for software companies to have this sort of presence on a trade fair that is dominated by hardware for data collection in the field Software seemed to be less present overall, which resulted in a much smaller OSGeo Park than in recent years. Is it possible that open source is imploding as well – and, if so, why is this It would be interesting to know why this is. What I sense is, that on the one hand the industry is growing in terms of players (organizations, applications, markets, vendors and service providers), and on the other hand, at the same time, is very fragmented. What I mean by this is that there are more and more geospatial conferences and meetings, for example, but for a smaller, specified or regional audience. Is this a bad thing I don’t think so, but to say exactly what belongs to the geospatial market and what doesn’t, isn’t very easy. It is unclear because geospatial companies are moving away from their core business, to new markets such as business intelligence (Esri) and construction software (Trimble). They are also incorporating new social media and, making broader use of general IT. This kind of innovation is what sets these companies apart from open source. Intergeo is also wrestling with this phenomenon of fragmentation, which is reflected in the topics discussed during the press conference and which is covered in more detail in this issue. ‘When do we need a surveyor’ This seems like an obvious question, but the reality is more complex. What was striking was that in North America, the cloud is already a technology that has been fully embraced, whereas the complete opposite is true for Europe. Why is this so Is it because the cloud is still a geographically located and static phenomenon, as opposed to what we were told it would be For more on this topic, please refer to the interview with Safe Software’s Don Murray in this issue. For the future, I think Intergeo has a great deal of potential, since it combines the knowledge of professionals in the industry with a large trade fair, which showcases the latest new products. This doesn’t go unnoticed elsewhere, judging from the increasingly growing presence from North American media. The event seems to get more international every year, attracting a more geographically diverse crowd, which is a good sign. If the organization can successfully capture the changing nature of the industry as a whole, by working together even more closely with media partners, the industry itself, interest groups, non-governmental organizations and science, then the event can become even more influential and important than it already is. Enjoy reading, Eric van Rees evanrees@geoinformatics.com Photography: www.bestpictures.nl 3 December <strong>2012</strong>
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