The January/February 2005 issue of GIS Professional (GiSPro) features a review of the 2004 Esri European User Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was during the three-day conference and exhibition that GISPro editor, John Fenn, caught up with Esri President Jack Dangermond to hear his views on the GIS industry and for an update on future Esri plans.

In addition to the Dangermond interview, the January/February 2005 issue features a GiSPro interview with Ron Lake, president and CEO of Galdos Systems—the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Gardels award winner in 2002, and a special focus on GIS interoperability with contributions from OGC, the United Kingdom (UK) Cabinet Office e-Government Unit, and the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

GiSPro is a new bimonthly magazine aimed at those who work in the broad field of spatial data application, management, interrogation, collection, and processing—whether users, managers, developers, consultants, data collectors, sensor and system developers, or academics and researchers.

The magazine is driven by an editorial board that includes Adena Schutzberg (editor of GIS Monitor), Professor Peter Fisher (University of Leicester), Ed Parsons (chief technology officer at Ordnance Survey Great Britain—the national mapping agency), and Dr. Muki Haklay (GIS lecturer at University College London).

The November/December 2004 launch issue led with 3D GIS, with a special focus on Virtual London, a digital model produced by the University College London's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis for the Greater London Authority. Additional topics included the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Maps on Tap initiative (a "joined-up" government project in the UK), spatial data infrastructures, and an urban planning case study, as well as an interview with Martin Daly, Cadcorp—the 2004 winner of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Kenneth D. Gardels award.

A full editorial plan can be viewed at www.gisprofessional.co.uk. Readers can also register online for the next two issues (January/February 2005 and March/April 2005) free of charge; thereafter, a subscription charge (either monthly, quarterly, or annually) will be required. Each issue will have a roundup of the latest news, conference, and seminar reports alongside a regular issue industry and product focus.

The March/April 2005 issue will have a special defense focus—a key market for GIS today. John Day and Chris Dorman of Esri both noted significant growth for Esri in this sector during presentations at the EUC in Copenhagen: the industry focus will look at both the traditional role of GIS in defense and the ever-increasing role in the security sector.

Subscriptions

Readers can register for two free issues of GiSPro at www.gisprofessional.co.uk. Full details of how to subscribe to the magazine will be mailed to those who register and are posted on the GiSPro Web site on February 1, 2005.