Articles - Peter Batty

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, January 2007: Here comes Microsoft

GeoWorld magazine, December 2006: Industry Outlook 2007

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, October 2006: Emergency Management Enlists Geospatial Technology

VerySpatial podcast interview, July 23, 2006 - my first podcast on their one year anniversary. My interview starts at around 16:30 minutes.

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, July 2006: Welcome to a Wiki World

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, April 2006: Capitalize on Video and Geospatial Technology Integration

GISCafe, January 16, 2006: Emerging technologies for 2006

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, January 2006: The Winding Road to the Mainstream

GeoWorld magazine, December 2005: Industry Outlook 2006

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, September 2005: Determine Accuracy Needs for Indoor Location Systems

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, June 2005: Welcome to the World of Smart Space

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, March 2005: So Many Standards to Choose From

GeoWorld magazine, December 2004: Industry Outlook 2005

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, December 2004: When do we need maps?

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, September 2004: Technical Challenges for Real-Time Spatial Systems

Geospatial Solutions magazine, September 2004, Future Trends and the Spatial Industry, Part two

Geospatial Solutions magazine, July 2004, Future Trends and the Spatial Industry, Part one

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, June 2004: Where's the geotechnology in my car?

Interview with GIS Cafe, June 2004: Spatial Technology Trends

GeoWorld magazine, Tech Time column, March 2004: Are We Mainstream Yet?

Geo:connexion magazine, December 2003: GIS certification: What's the point?
... and a follow up in February 2004 where "an only slightly repentant Peter Batty holds his ground"

Geospatial Solutions magazine, November 2003: The certification emperor has no clothes

GeoWorld magazine, April 2003: Real-Time Spatial Applications Drive Industry Growth

GeoWorld magazine, November 2000 (with Tony Sileo): Do You Really Have an "e-Business"?

GeoWorld magazine, November 2000: GE lights up Smallworld (interview with Warren Ferguson and Peter Batty)

GeoEurope magazine, November 2000, GE lights up Smallworld (interview with Warren Ferguson and Peter Batty)

GeoWorld Industry Outlook

GeoWorld magazine publishes an annual Industry Outlook feature every December, when they ask their Editorial Advisory Board about industry trends. Here are my contributions to this:

2005 - Location Tracking Technologies, Non-Traditional GIS Markets, Moving to the Mainstream

2004 - Usability, Location Based Services, and Moving to the Mainstream

2003 - Mobile computers

2002 - Various topics

2001 - Internet computing targets a new world of spatial applications

2000 - The birth of a new millennium

1999 - GIS melts into IT

1998 - One of my favorites, in which I get to poke some (friendly!) fun at Jack Dangermond and Bill Gates

1997 - My first appearance in the Industry Outlook feature!

White Papers

Benefits of a platform independent utility network design system - written for Cook-Hurlbert, 2004 (pdf format)

Local Positioning Systems: New possibilities for urban combat training (with Pete Steggles of Ubisense), presented at the IITSEC conference, December 2003 (pdf format)

Local Positioning Systems - technology overview and applications - written for Ubisense, with Andy Ward and Paul Webster, September 2003 (pdf format)

Object-orientation: some objectivity please! - Smallworld technical paper

GIS databases are different (with Dick Newell) - Smallworld technical paper

Use of an Integrated CASE Tool for GIS Customization (with Gillian Kendrick) - Smallworld technical paper

AM/FM Data Modelling For Utilities - Smallworld technical paper

GITA papers

2002: Version management revisited

2000: Technologies for uniting the enterprise

1998: Beyond GIS: a new level of integration

1997: Is Mainstream Database Technology Ready For AM/FM/GIS?