Trends, Challenges, and Concerns GIS industry leaders share their views Spatial Roundtable (www.spatialroundtable.com), an interactive Web site sponsored by Esri, promotes the discussion of specific applications of GIS. For each topic, the main contributor initiates the discussion and invites guests who are topic experts. Topic discussions remain open for six weeks, then are archived for 24 months. Simon Thompson, business industry solutions manager at Esri, addressed the inaugural topic Why do so few insurers use GIS? The featured contributor for this topic was Bernard Mageean, managing director of QBE European Operations. The next topic is GIS: Essential Technology for Health and WellBeing. Visitors to Spatial Roundtable can add comments, submit questions, suggest topics, and subscribe to the RSS feed. Start with data you can believe in. Mandalay, Myanmar Latitude 21° 57‘ North, Longitude 96° 9‘ East DeLorme World Base Map provides seamless, horizontally-accurate base maps upon which to build an effective, compelling and affordable GIS. See how DeLorme's unique experience in data creation, software, and GPS can help your business. www.delorme.com/DigitalMapData DELORME Data GIS GPS www.esri.com ArcUser Fall 2009 33