充电，我们面临新的挑战

Did you attend GeoCom 2015 in November? If you didn’t you missed a lively and truly informative event, which must surely have re-charged every delegate’s verve for all things GI related. In these tough times, when company budgets for conferencing are often non-existent and time away from desks is in even shorter supply, the AGI managed to organise two (and a half if we include the Foresight 2020 report on the evening of 23 November) very attractive days, especially around plenaries and debates. We’ve reported on Day One in this issue (pages 14-17); in February we’ll cover Day Two. In the meantime, if anyone who attended sessions not covered by our small team and would like to pen a para or two please get in touch.

我不能太强烈建议读者download and study the Foresight 2020 report. There is plenty of wisdom there from the industry’s thought leaders, cage rattlers and pundits. We will review it in more detail in the next issue. In the meantime, read it and tell us what you think; it was definitely another milestone achievement for the team led by Anne Kemp, which cajoled and chased contributions and then edited it into a readable document. Well done guys. It’s available to anyone for free atwww.agi.org.uk/about/resources/category/100-foresight?download=160:agi-foresight-2020。

I hope you enjoy our interview with Nigel Clifford (pages 18-21). His presentation at GeoCom demonstrated his analytical and presentational skills. His leadership and management ability are soon likely to be tested. He brings a very different skill-set to the job than his predecessor, but skills that will come into play in the coming years as Ordnance Survey faces very different challenges and changes, driven by government.

Elsewhere in this issue James Brayshaw (pages 10 & 11) makes a cogent case for government using location intelligence to drive down costs. He identifies three ‘D’s’ – decentralisation, digital and data, against the challenges of retaining skilled staff, constantly driving down costs, changing demographics (think ageing population), new ways of working and wider collaboration with other agencies. What James did not mention but which can certainly help cash-strapped council, is open source software. To implement it requires enthusiasm, imaginative management and dedication. All these qualities seem to have been in abundance at Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, where Simon Miles and colleagues have managed to save £75k over three years by moving from proprietary GIS software to open source. Great work guys (more on page 17).

正如我们要新闻校长出版他的秋季声明，那么少数惊喜，一些人可能更加欢迎别人。当我们在新闻中报告时，土地登记处（彻底私有化织机）和Ordnance调查有所改变，在那里有一个呼吁带入私人资本。这是什么意思？是资本化下的操作系统吗？最后一次看着它正在为财政部做出稳定的利润。还有什么可以在没有进一步扰乱其合作伙伴和商业竞争对手的情况下做些什么？它只能意味着更商业的侵略性操作系统。关注此空间。

Lastly, my good wishes for the coming holiday. I hope it will be peaceful for you and those dear to you. We shall be back with the first issue for 2016 in February.

本文于2015年12月GIS专业发布