Category Archives: Surveying
Geospatial Adventure: Ghost Towns and Diamond Mine Memories
Diamond mine memories: A century or so ago, miners in the small settlement of Pomona pulled 50,000 carats of diamonds a month from the vast, arid nothingness of land called the Sperrgebiet—10,000 square miles of coastal desert in southwestern Namibia in Africa. The sandy ground has long since given up the last of its precious...
Daenerys; Dothraki; Dubrovnik: How 3D Scanning Built a Game of Clones
How lidar imaging turned Dubrovnik Old Town, Croatia, into a realistic fantasy world! The sight of King’s Landing, the capital and largest city of the Seven Kingdoms, is spectacular. The population found within verges on half a million but from a bird’s eye view, it is serene and calm, with the gentle sounds of Blackwater Bay in the...
Doers: Christoph Hinte
Christoph Hinte on 25 years at Intergeo Christoph Hinte is the organizer of INTERGEO, the world’s biggest annual geospatial trade fair and conference. As CEO of HINTE Expo & Conference, he has been involved in the development and strategy of INTERGEO events since in 1995. Hinte tells xyHt why this year’s event, October 13 to...
Jack Dangermond Interview Part 1: The Company
At the Esri User Conference, xyHt European editor Nicholas Duggan sat down for a one-on-one interview with Jack Dangermond, Esri founder and CEO. In Duggan’s five-part online series, running each day this week, Dangermond discusses everything from Esri’s beginning to the future of GIS. Here in Part 1 the two discuss Dangermond’s company. Nicholas Duggan:...
Safety Moments
Safety. It’s often at the top of an organization’s stated priorities and rightly so. It should be a top priority in every aspect of our lives. I know my own safety awareness has increased dramatically with age and experience. Whether running a chainsaw, climbing a ladder, or trout fishing a remote stream in the mountains,...
George Washington, Surveyor
If what you know about George Washington comes from your primary and secondary education— —Then John Berlau’s new book George Washington, Entrepreneur (St. Martin’s Publishing Group, $28.99) holds a treasure trove of information for you—especially for surveyors. Our US education tells us Washington was a great military leader, a diplomatic statesman, and a political pragmatist,...