现实世界中

The Real World is the title of an MTV show in which a few young people are followed every day with a camera to register their daily life. Or at least, their inspiring and exciting daily life for the duration of the show when the ‘stars’ of the show live in a beautiful house in a vibrant city somewhere in the USA – Miami, New York or Los Angeles – and the odd crossing to Europe, for example to London. The people in The Real World often work for television, sing in a band or design for a fashion house. Most of the time, they are good-looking and successful in life and love. And even though for a lot of them success does not continue after the show when they return to their normal daily life, MTV never has any trouble in finding plenty of candidates for a new series. The Real World is the mother of the real-life soap as it appears in every country all over the globe. The real world is appealing, not only to television watchers, but also to professionals in geomatics. All manufacturers in the surveying and mapping industry want to approach the real world as much as possible with their products. And they succeed. Bit by bit, they succeed. From plain data through abstract models to two- and now three-dimensional visualisation, the industry comes up with new applications that approach reality as much as possible. The newest technology was there to be admired at Intergeo 2005 in Düsseldorf (see review on page 41): 3D visualisation of a high level whereby special 3D glasses are no longer necessary. It is not only visualisation that aims for as much reality as possible. Developments in data processing and determination of location are also heading to a much higher level of real-time. The standpoint becomes: I want to process my data here and now and therefore I need to know where I am right now. Therefore I need pictures that are as real as possible. The real world will, in years to come, become the standard visualisation in mapping software. From real-world visualisation to real-time here and now, professionals from the industry will be stars playing major roles in their own ongoing series The Real Geomatics.

9月15日，我们收到了一个可悲的消息，即我们的贡献编辑雅克·萨克斯（Jacques Sipkes）在短暂病后59岁去世。雅克（Jacques）于2001年加入了GIM International的188金宝搏特邀编辑委员会，从那时起，他对地理学方面的各种发展做出了永无止境的热情。我们的想法与他的一生同伴阿迪贾（Adija）和他的女儿祖胡（Zuhura），他的亲戚以及全球其他所有人一起，他们将真正错过雅克（Jacques）的鼓舞人心的个性。在第39页上，您会发现同事和主编Mathias Lemmens撰写的itu告。