Informative Storytelling and Disneyland - HxGN Live 2016

The seventh HxGN Live conference was held in California last June. It was the first time it had been hosted in the Golden State, the Anaheim Convention Center marking a break from previous years at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Evolving applications for unmanned vehicle use, trends in laser scanning linked to GeoICT and cloud-based services and solutions were all points of interest, while local trips to Disneyland brought back memories of the first Hexagon Live in Orlando, reports Adam P. Spring.

世界正在成为一个聪明的地方。因此，六角形产品组合是静态的。事实上，传感器的背包，坦克的车辆和无人机可以在活动的所有四天内看到。六角形服务和解决方案也很明显，他们的用户能够在大多数环境中收集精确的信息。HXGN Live是一个举办多个叙述的活动，这一事实在六角总裁兼首席执行官OlaRollén中重申了。

故事的力量

Rollen故事为了突出使用value of provenance in an information-rich world. In this case, the end of a bedtime story was one example used to detail how Hexagon users should fuse their narrative with data. Without the details, the end result are seen to lack context and the information that give it value. It was an opening keynote that would have made Immanuel Kant, the German philosopher who developed the idea of Empirical Provenance or Origin in 1781, very proud!

Integration of mobile sensors was also discussed in a way that brought together a lot of the technologies on display. Geoff Jacobs a foundation stone of the Leica Geosystems HDS brand had hinted at a new trend emerging before the conference began. Rollén’s discussion of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence fed into this trend on a broader scale. Sensors and sensing were enabling Hexagon users to document and bring multiple degrees of measurement together, all in real time. Rollén used crowd analysis and gun control at a rock concert as an example. Hexagon services and solution were seen to be making the world a safer place.

Overall, the symbiotic relationships between information flows, technologies and people were alive and well in the opening keynote for 2016. Rollén ended the session by breaking this down into a basic overview in terms of workflow: “So the feedback loop is already there between the modern world and the real world. But we need to augment this feedback loop to make it more efficient so that we can continue to enjoy an open society.”

地质和HDS

用户趋势与移动电话等地点感知设备相关的趋势（现在在GiSworiven Markets中完善）开始进入基于高清调查（HDS）的工作流程。融合地形地图和与点云信息的真实世界职位在HXGN Live上很受欢迎。它跨越所有HDS轨道会话，可以在各种演示中看到。

For example, Nikolas Smilovsky of BPG Designs demonstrated that communication hubs like data centres were becoming money-rich clients for HDS providers in the US. Project communication tools like Truview are helping to communicate point cloud data to his clients, while his background in GIS enable him to put a location-aware spin on things. While Dana Lockett and the National Park Service were combining the experience of HDS in preexisting plan drawings using panorama tools like Kolor and PTGui with interactive maps. The end user experience for high definition survey and documentation was now being interwoven with information and communication technologies (ICT). It was online, interactive and being transformed by handheld devices like mobile phones and tablets.

Retelling Stories

When Stan Lee was lead writer at Marvel Comics he wrote each of his stories to include one feature. He always reintroduced character backstories so that readers new to the likes of IronMan or SpiderMan were never excluded from the action. The lesson learnt by Lee was never assume your customer knows anything about the subject matter you are communicating. Otherwise, you may exclude the audience and prevent your customer base from growing.

Mike Harvey, product applications manager for HDS, put this idea into practice at HxGN Live 2016. The Introduction to 3D laser scanning / HDS was first given at SPAR 2016, where Harvey and Larry Kleinkemper of Lanmar Service had co-presented the session. It was popular at that gathering in Texas to the point where Hexagon customers were also treated to a lesson in laser scanning for beginners. Point cloud based survey and design was a key player in Anaheim.

可操作的信息

The term Actionable Information has been at the centre of all Hexagon conferences. Though the idea can be traced back to the 1990s, when technology-based user networks started to form and required communication-based Action Workflows to be developed, HxGN 2016 really did show information in action. For example, Hexagon Geospatial had already announced the Incident Analyser M. App before the conference. Where real-time maps are packaged around incident detection and response times in urban environments, it is an extension of the Smart M.App cloud-based service announced in 2015. Andy Wells, MD at Sterling Geo, was quick to point out how the lines were blurring for Hexagon customers.

作为Erdas和Geomedia产品的官方经销商，Sterling Geo很好地对六角形相关的消费趋势发表评论。对于井，智能M.应用程序和六角形图像（HXIP）等基于云的服务被证明具有无限的潜力。它提供了可以在六角形伞下的所有服务和解决方案中使用的内容，而是IT Intergraph或Leica Geosystems产品。

迪士尼土地公园

加州阿纳海姆的迪斯尼乐园开业于1955年。It later changed its name to Disneyland Park when it expanded in the 1990s. Walt Disney himself came up with the idea for this theme park where both adults and children could have fun. It came to him when he watched his daughters ride the merry-go-round in Griffin Park, Los Angeles. HxGN Live attendees were treated to A Night at the Park on June 16th and were happy to prove Walt had the right idea.

Summary

已在北美举行的六大会议为六角形作为公司的演变提供了快照。例如，在佛罗里达州的第一次活动中，佛罗里达州的第一次活动感到了一流的奇迹。那个年份的大问题，这在拉斯维加斯继续随后的活动，是收购射程以及它将如何发展。2016年加州快速转发，现在很难想象在Intergraph没有成为六角形业务组合的一部分。这种感觉超越了产品集成（其中制造和移动式映射解决方案在2016年的大主题）。员工有机地将自己视为在一个总体品牌下工作。

It was interesting to see the difference in customer attitudes at HxGN Live 2016. The obvious spectre of Brexit loomed large for British customers. Whereas, fascinations with popular culture in the US continued to feed into the travel plans of Australian attendees: the adult “Disneyland” of Las Vegas had been replaced by family trips to the real Disneyland in Anaheim. For American customers, of which there were new and returning faces, the gold rush of domestic economic recovery had carried on from the previous year. The competitive edge was alive and well at HxGN Live 2016.

This article was published in Geomatics World September/October 2016