The first part of the show was a stunning half hour presentation of the most beautiful cartographic art I've ever seen. Then, Rumsey (http://www.davidrumsey.com/) gave series of demos of work in progress by his gis programmers of historical maps geo-rectified or "rubber sheeted" over contemporary base maps, and aerial and satellite photos and DEMs, with dynamic dissolves between layers, and 3d fly-throughs of historical maps draped across digital elevation models. He then finished up with a demonstration of all of these features combined into dynamic layers draped on a rotatatable 3D ARCGlobe from ESRI.

Converting raw data into meaningful information Sun Microsystems, Inc.,has deployed Hive’s Honeycomb® 4 for visual analysis. Honeycomb allows Sun managers to transform thick business intelligence reports that contain the equivalent of thousands of spreadsheet records into a single, interactive digital map. http://www.hivegroup.com/10_16_03release.html
Treemaps are a space-filling visualization method of representing large collections of quantitative data, achieving this by collapsing a hierarchy into color-coded rectangles on a computer screen. http://www.hivegroup.com/technology.html

"When insight becomes instant, only better business results can follow.” - Tony Jewitt, CEO of The Hive Group
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play." ~ John Cleese
"Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees." ~ Erwin Shrodinger
"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?" - Steven Wright
"A truth which needs to be proven is a half truth" ~Kahlil Gibran
"A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural." ~ "Catch-22" J. Heller

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