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DECEMBER 2011 4 POSITION Has Anyone Heard of this Cloud Thing? By Todd Danielson 6 NEWSLINK 10 BEYOND MAPPING VtoR (Pronounced 'V-tore') and Back! By Joseph Berry 12 THE "G" IN GIS GIS: From Space to Place? By Daniel Sui 24 ADVERTISER INDEX 30 OPEN GEOSPATIAL CONNECTION 'Rigor Spectrum' Expanding at Both Ends By David Arctur Dan Adams, vice president of Product Management, TomTom Chris Andrews, senior product manager, Autodesk Peter Batty, founder and vice president, Geospatial Technology, Ubisense Jack Dangermond, founder and president, Esri FEATURES Industry Outlook 2012 The Year of 'The Cloud?' (Or Did We Just Have It?) 14 Chuck Drinnan, principal, eWAM Associates Connie Gurchiek, president, Transcend Spatial Solutions William S. Holland, president, RedGiant Analytics Inc. Ron Lake, CEO, Galdos Systems Inc. David S. Linden, chief scientist, SAIC Inc. Dale Lutz, co-founder and vice president of development, Safe Software Anup Jindal, chief operating officer, RMSI Roy Kolstad, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Americas, NAVTEQ Time-sensitive GeoWorld departments such as NetLink, PeopleLink, Product News and Business News now are maintained solely at the GeoPlace.com Web site. Check there often for the latest updates as they happen. The digital version of this issue contains additional coverage of this section. Visit GeoPlace.com for more information. GeoWorld (ISSN 0897-5507, USPS 023-416) is published monthly by M2MEDIA360, a Bev-Al Communications, Inc. company. 1030 W. Higgins Road, Suite 230, Park Ridge, IL 60068 USA GeoWorld is distributed free to qualified subscribers in the geospatial industry. POSTMASTER Please send change of address to: GeoWorld, PO Box 4290, Port Jervis, NY 12771 Subscription rates - one year: US $72, two years: US $128; one year Canada: $90, two years Canada: $163. All other countries, one year: $108 (includes airmail postage). Payable in U.S. funds only. Customer Service and subscription requests, please call Phone (845) 856- 2229; Fax (845) 856-5822 or subscribe online at www.geoplace. com/subscribe. Periodical postage paid at Park Ridge, IL and additional mailing offices. New Horizons Sensors Add Dynamic Context to the Information Ecosystem BY ERIK SHEPARD Carey Mann, vice president of solutions, Bentley Systems Carl Reed, chief technology officer, Open Geospatial Consortium Walter Scott, founder, chief technical officer and executive vice president, DigitalGlobe. Mladen Stojic, vice president, Geospatial, Intergraph | ERDAS 26 DECEMBER 2O11 / WWW . GEOPLA CE . C O M 3