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Programme, Presentations & Papers

Theme: National mapping - shaping the future

 

Sunday

Afternoon

Delegate registration in Fisher Building reception

Evening

Conference Welcome Reception held at the Great Arc of India Exhibition at Jesus Green, Cambridge

Monday

Session 1

Introduction and welcome

Welcome from Conference Director
- Dave Lovell, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

Conference Address
- Vanessa Lawrence, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Presentation: 11Mb download

Progress on resolutions since last conference
- Resolution 1: Ian Masser, GSDI Association
- Resolution 2: Robin Waters, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK
- Resolution 3: Trevor Shaw, National Land Agency, Jamaica
- Resolution 4: Neil Ackroyd, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
1999 Resolutions Presentation: 100Kb download
Update on Resolution 2 Presentation: 67Kb download

Keynote address:
Paper 1.1 165Kb download
The future of framework data: moving away from the map sheet
- Martien Molenaar and Menno-Jan Kraak, ITC, Netherlands
Presentation: 4.6Mb download

Session 2

The importance of national mapping in a changing world
- chaired by Qassim Al Ghanim, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture, Qatar

Papers:

Paper 2.1 191Kb download
Maps as Infrastructure: The National Map
- Barbara Ryan and Michael Domaratz, U.S. Geological Survey
Presentation: 40Mb download

Paper 2.2 205Kb download
Botswana - Visionary Geo-Information Development Programming
- Bryson Morebodi, Department of Surveys and Mapping, Botswana
Presentation: 184Kb download

Paper 2.3 180Kb download
Responsibility of NMOs for Sustainable Development
- Hiromichi Maruyama and Minoru Akiyama, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan
Presentation: 145Kb download

Paper 2.4 163Kb download
Meeting Global Human Needs with the Geospatial Enterprise
- Preetha Pulusani, Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions, USA
Presentation available from author: mehughes@ingr.com

Paper 4A.3 2Mb download
National Mapping in Hungary - Shaping the Future
- Szabolcs Mihály, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary

Evening

Exhibition opening in marquee with pre-drinks reception

Tuesday

Session 3

Who pays the mapper?
- chaired by Robin McLaren, Know Edge Ltd., UK

Papers:

Paper 3.1 136Kb download
Funding the Spatial Data Infrastructure
- Joakim Ollén, National Land Survey of Sweden
No presentation available

Paper 3.2 708Kb download
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
- John Spittal, Land Information New Zealand
Presentation: 4.9Mb download

Paper 3.3 206Kb download
Official German Surveying and Mapping and the Geodata Market
- Wilhelm Zeddies, Working Committee of the State Surveying Authorities, Germany
Presentation: 88Kb download

Paper 3.4 210Kb download
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI): Finding and Providing Tools to Facilitate Capacity Building
- Alan Stevens and Keith Thackrey, GSDI Secretariat
Presentation: 344Kb download

Paper 3.5 790Kb download
The Military Geographic Institute of Chile as a tool for National Development
- Luis Alegría, Military Geographic Institute, Chile
Presentation: 30Mb download

Paper 8.4 192Kb download
The Role of the Mapping Science Committee in assisting the mapping of the United States
- David Cowen, National Research Council Mapping Science Committee, USA
Presentation: 5.4Mb download

Session 4

Workshop 4A: Gaining political support and funding for national mapping
- chaired by Bryson Morebodi, Department of Surveys and Mapping, Botswana

Papers:

Paper 4A.1 166Kb download
Sustainable Geomatics?
- Rob Mahoney and Robin Waters, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK
Presentation: 2.2Mb download

Paper 4A.2 367Kb download
Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland: Mapping and a Changing (Political, Organisational and Business) Landscape
- Mick Cory, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland
Presentation: 11Mb download

Paper 4A.4 131Kb download
Try to think like an Economist
- Gavin Adlington, Consultant to World Bank
Presentation: 145Kb download

Paper 4A.5 415Kb download | Author's update: 49Kb download
Financing Models for SDIs: Are they Applicable in Emerging Nations?
- Garfield Giff and David Coleman, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Presentation: 378Kb download

Paper 4A.6
The National Cadastral Programme in Hungary
- Géza Apagyi, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hungary, and Szabolcs Mihály, Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Hungary
Presentation: 1.4Mb download

Session 4

Workshop 4B: Training for the future
- chaired by Jean Cooper, Department of Natural Resources, Canada

Papers:

Paper 4B.1 153Kb download
National Mapping Organisations as learning organisations
- Menno-Jan Kraak and Martien Molenaar, ITC, Netherlands
Presentation: 2.9Mb download

Paper 4B.2 196Kb download
Mainstreaming geographical information into information systems training programs
- Dimitri Kanounnikoff, National School of Geographical Sciences, France
Presentation: 277Kb download

Paper 4B.3 800Kb download
UCL (University College London) - Teaching, Research and Innovation for Geographic Information Professionals
- Dave Chapman, UCL Business, UK
Presentation: 2.7Mb download

Session 4

Workshop 4C: Technology
- chaired by John Spittal, Land Information New Zealand

Papers:

Paper 4C.1 260Kb download
Intelligent Multi-Scale Cartographic Data and Their databases
- Charlie Frye, ESRI, USA
Presentation: 58Kb download

Paper 4C.2 919Kb download
Efficient Map Production By Re-Engineering and Generalising Your Data Assets
- Paul Hardy, Laser-Scan, UK and Marlene Meyer, National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark
Presentation: 644Kb download

Paper 4C.3 815Kb download
An Interoperability Report, a Forecast and a Call to Action
- Mark Reichardt, Open GIS Consortium
Presentation: 9Mb download

Paper 5B.2 383Kb download
Evaluation tests performed over a proposed anti-piracy system for digital vector datasets
- Artigas Bacci, Military Geographic Service and Carlos López, TheDigitalMap Ltd., Uruguay
Presentation: 656Kb download

Session 4

Workshop 4D: Legal issues
- chaired by Alex Griffin, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

Papers:

Paper 4D.1 155Kb download
Spatial information in the Information Society
- Laila Aslesen, Norwegian Mapping Authority
Presentation: 172Kb download

Paper 4D.2A 248Kb download
Death of Copyright - Long Live Patents and Database Rights
- Nick Rose and Jonathan Radcliffe, Field Fisher Waterhouse, UK
No presentation available

Paper 4D.2B 207Kb download
Death of Copyright - Long Live Patents
- Jonathan Radcliffe, Field Fisher Waterhouse, UK
No presentation available

Paper 4D.3 195Kb download
Drawing the Line: Mapmakers and International Boundaries
- Martin Pratt and John Donaldson, International Boundaries Research Unit, UK
Presentation available from author: m.a.pratt@durham.ac.uk

Evening

Hotine lecture sponsored by ESRI
- Speaker Professor Gordon Conway, President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Wednesday

Session 5

Workshop 5A: Transforming NMOs - how to get from here to where?
- chaired by Amitabha Pande, Department of Science and Technology, India

Papers:

Paper 5A.1 201Kb download
Transformation of National Mapping Agencies: The case of India
- Prithvish Nag, Survey of India
Presentation: 2.6Mb download

Paper 5A.2 191Kb download
Leadership of Geomatics in Canada: reworking the concept
- Bob O'Neil, Natural Resources Canada
Presentation: 236Kb download

Paper 5A.3 461Kb download
Restructuring the Geographical Information Production and Dissemination at National Level - The Experience of Portugal
- Rui Pedro Julião, Portuguese Geographical Institute
Presentation: 340Kb download

Paper 5A.4 1.1Mb download
The decentralised approach to mapping of the Federal Republic of Germany - a model for establishing the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI)?
- Dietmar Grünreich, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, Germany
Presentation: 750Kb download

Session 5

Workshop 5B: National Spatial Data Infrastructures
- chaired by Mukund Rao, Indian Space Research Organisation

Papers:

Paper 5B.1 185Kb download
Polish National Geographic Information System
- Jerzy Albin, Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography, Poland
Presentation: 2.7Mb download

Paper 5B.3 267Kb download
Are core data providers ready for the SDI?
- Yola Georgiadou, ITC, Netherlands and Kate Lance, Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Secretariat
Presentation: 1Mb download

Paper 5B.4 186Kb download
Implementing GIS Technology for Spatial Data Management at National and Global Level in Republic of Moldova
- Nicolae Svet and Maria Ovdii, State Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre, Moldova
No presentation available

Session 5

Workshop 5C: Understanding the customer and the business
- chaired by Derek Clarke, Surveys and Mapping, South Africa

Papers:

Paper 5C.1 168Kb download
Development and marketing of a cadastral software - co-operation to reach the international market
- Jan Schröder, National Land Survey of Sweden
Presentation: 1.4Mb download

Paper 5C.2 382Kb download
Estimating ROI for Spatial Technology within Enterprise Information Systems: a Methodology
- David Sonnen, International Data Corporation, USA
Presentation: 439Kb download

Paper 5C.3 186Kb download
Understanding the Customer and the Business - an Australian Perspective
- Peter Holland, Geoscience Australia
Presentation: 218Kb download

Paper 5C.4 188Kb download
Working with a National Mapping Agency: A Commercial Partner's Perspective
- Christopher Roper, PointX Ltd., UK
Presentation: 130Kb download

Session 5

Workshop 5D: Technology 2 - applications
- chaired by Zeljko Bacic, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia

Papers:

Paper 5D.1 189Kb download
Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year - what does it mean for us?
- Ulf Sandgren, National Land Survey of Sweden
Presentation: 43Mb download

Paper 5D.2 217Kb download
Delivering a National Mapping Infrastructure: Case Study from Ordnance Survey
- Brigitte Colombo, Oracle Corporation and Ed Parsons, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Presentation: 320Kb download

Paper 5D.3 356Kb download
The Application of Real-Time Kinematic GPS for National Large Scale Detail Capture
- Neil Ackroyd and Neil Dewfield, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Presentation: 2.9Mb download

Paper 5D.5 733Kb download
Technology at local level - Mapping the neighbourhood with school children
- Siva Kumar, Department of Science and Technology, India
Presentation: 11Mb download

Session 6

The global context
- chaired by Santiago Borrero, Institute for Pan American Geography and History, Colombia

Papers:

Paper 6.1 225Kb download
Building Europe's Spatial Data Infrastructure (ESDI)
- Nick Land, EuroGeographics
Presentation: 1.6Mb download

Paper 6.2 239Kb download
Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI): At the Crossroads, moving forward
- Ian Masser, GSDI Association and Alan Stevens, GSDI Secretariat
Presentation: 89Kb download

Paper 6.3 183Kb download
The Impact of Global Change on the Future of National Mapping Agencies
- David Maguire, ESRI, USA
Presentation: 505Kb download

Paper 6.4 197Kb download
The International Map of the World and Global Map: Will History Repeat itself?
- Fraser Taylor, International Steering Committee for Global Mapping
Presentation: 2.9Mb download

Paper 6.5
Strategies for Harmonised Land Cover Mapping and Monitoring - AFRICOVER and Beyond
- John Latham, FAO, UN
Presentation: 39Mb download

Evening

Exhibition closes

Jazz and punting event at Lower River Court, with light refreshments
Sponsored by Intergraph UK

Thursday

Session 7

Engaging with the private sector
- chaired by Barbara Ryan, US Geological Survey, USA

Papers:

Paper 7.1 402Kb download
Spatially Enabling Australia through Collaboration and Innovation
- Ollie Hedberg, Daniel Paull and Marni Bower, PSMA Australia Ltd.
Presentation: 1.5Mb download

Paper 7.2 278Kb download
Outsourcing whole production out of NMO: Croatia as an example
- Zeljko Bacic, State Geodetic Administration, Croatia
Presentation: 652Kb download

Paper 7.3 195Kb download
Strategy and System of Quality Control of the Official Geographic Data produced by Private Companies in Croatia
- Nevio Rozic, Croatian Geodetic Institute
Presentation: 78Kb download

Paper 7.4 518Kb download
Government and Industry: The New Zealand Experience
- John Spittal, Land Information New Zealand
Presentation: 5.5Mb download

Paper 7.5 173Kb download
Publishing Partnership - refining the business model
- John Gaisford, Philip's, UK
Presentation: 34Kb download

Paper 7.6 271Kb download
Some Basic Principles for Building the Successful NMA of the Future
- Helge Larsen, Kampsax, Denmark
Presentation: 1.7Mb download

Session 8

Seeing round the corner
- chaired by Joakim Ollén, National Land Survey of Sweden

Papers:

Paper 8.1 394Kb download
The Future of GIS: Real-time, Mission Critical, Location Services
- Xavier Lopez, Oracle Corporation, USA
Presentation: 1.7Mb download

Paper 8.2 169Kb download
Future Perspectives on Cadastre
- Bengt Kjellson, UNECE Working Party on Land Administration
Presentation: 271Kb download

Paper 8.3 3.1Mb download
Steps towards Digital Japan
- Yoshihisa Hoshino, Hiromichi Maruyama and Yasushi Shimoyama, Geographical Survey Institute, Japan
Presentation: 45Mb download

Paper 8.5
From EGNOS to Galileo: Offering Satellite Navigation Services
- Apostolia Karamali, Galileo Interim Support Structure, Belgium
No presentation available

Paper 8.6 173Kb download
The Future is not what it used be!
- Denis Johnston, I4B, UK
Presentation: 18Mb download

Paper 5D.4 144Kb download
National Mapping Agencies - Technology driven businesses?
- Ed Parsons, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Presentation: 3Mb download

Session 9

Closing session

Resolutions and recommendations from the Conference
- Aide Memoire for the next Cambridge Conference
Presentation: 127Kb download
Word document: 23Kb download

Evening

Tour of "Unfolding Landscapes" exhibition at Cambridge University Library

Conference dinner

Friday

Delegates split into two groups for visits to:

Southampton
Ordnance Survey
Presentation and interactive displays about OS MasterMap, e-business, cultural changes
Delegates taken to Holiday Inn, Southampton
Evening meal at National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

London
The group split into three groups for visits to
Royal Geographical Society
Land Registry
Defence Geographic and Imagery Intelligence Agency
Evening reception at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Saturday

Delegates depart

Ordnance Survey logo