Intergraph SG&I UK User Community Annual Conference

1st & 2nd October at the offices of Atkins, Epsom, Surrey

55 delegates registered for the two-day meeting at Atkins' offices in Epsom. Presentations looked at improving operational performance and service delivery though wider exploitation of existing spatial information, integrating and sharing spatial data, INSPIRE and technical updates on GeoMedia WebMap including performance tuning Web sites, what's new in WebMap 6.1, 'mash-ups' with Google and Microsoft Virtual Earth and the new products for INSPIRE: SDI Pro and SDI Portal.

Meeting Presentations

Day 1 - Management and Strategy Topics

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Integrated, Collaborative Working on Atkins’ SDI Atkins Geospatial, Dr. Anne Kemp Head of Atkins Geospatial	Integrated, Collaborative Working on Atkins’ SDI
Setting the Scene Intergraph, Howard Papworth Director Security, Government & Infrastructure Driving business and service improvement through wider exploitation of spatial data.	Setting the Scene
Spatial Strategies Metronet Rail, Matthew Prosser Using spatial technology to integrate, analyse, present & share key information on assets, operations and performance.	Spatial Strategies
Analysing Business Data to Improve Operational Performance Lightfoot, Les Halpin Data mining, analysis and interpretation to improve performance & organisational efficiency.	Analysing Business Data to Improve Operational Performance
Connecting Users with Information Surrey Police, Alison Barlow Improving operational insight and service delivery by wider exploitation of existing data.	Operational Support Communications
Avoiding Data Deluge Leading to Information Drought Merseyside Police, Peter Kinloch The role of mobile data in improving information recording and mechanisms for retrieval to ensure your organisation can access the information that they need when they need it.	GIS Reduces Crime
Getting the Message Across Tube Lines Ltd, Steven Eglinton Building a business case for a Spatial Information Strategy.	Getting the Message Across
INSPIRE Atkins Geospatial, Dr. Gesche Schmid Principal Consultant	INSPIRE

Day 2 - Technology & Implementations

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New Capabilities for the Web Intergraph, Helen Neaves From Spatial Data Infrastructures and INSPRIE to ‘mash-ups’ and the use of Google and Microsoft Virtual Earth for your Web client interface.	GeoMedia WebMap 6.1 Product Update
Modelling Fire Risk Liverpool John Moores University, Dr. Mike Francis Modelling fire risk by integrating chaos models and neural networks with GeoMedia.	GISLab
‘Other Spatial Systems are Available’ Southampton City Council, Colin Ames & Gisela Hoppe Experiences of supporting multiple vendors’ Geographic Information Systems on a common Oracle spatial database.	Other Spatial Systems are Available
GeoMedia WebMap - Performance Analysis & Tuning Intergraph (US), Paul Deaver As the demand for geospatial data grows, system administrators face increasing requirements for system performance. This session addresses two aspects of performance: IT hardware, software and application architecture as they apply to GeoMedia WebMap, and analysis of GeoMedia WebMap applications to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.	GeoMedia WebMap - Performance Analysis & Tuning
Delivering INSPIRE and Data Portals Intergraph, Claudio Mingrino EU Programmes Lead An introduction to the EU INSPIRE directive and a more detailed look at Intergraph’s activities, capabilities and projects centred on interoperability, on-line services and data sharing portals.	Intergraph, INSPIRE, SDI and the European Union
Ordnance Survey On Demand Preview Ordnance Survey, Julian Cooper Preview of Ordnance Survey’s forthcoming data services that will deliver small and large scale mapping by open web services (via OGC WMS).	OS On Demand

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