41 exhibitors, 1500 visitors, exhibition area of 460 m2, 70 movie presentations and lectures , 6 seminar rooms and 2 kinds of training workshops - that summarises this year’s party. This time GEA fairs were organized In one of the most impressive - as for Polish conditions - Poznań International Fairs complex. The opening was performed altogether by the vice president of GUGiK Ryszard Preuss , representative of the Office of Wielkopolskie Voivodeship (WODGiK) Lidia Danielska and the president of Economy Chamber of Geodesy Wojciech Matela. GEA fairs were a perfect opportunity to compare different solutions. And it referred to measurement instruments (Leica, Nikon, Nedo, Pentax, Sokkia, Topcon, Trimble), as well as scanning , printing and copying devices (Canon, Colortrac, Contex, KIP, Océ, Sei­ko, Xerox). The offer within this scope was completed by the session of presentations entitled “ Geoinformatical technologies and techniques” This year, however companies providing services , data and geoinformatical products were dominating among others. Fairs debutant in this line of business was one of the local IT market giants, currently also associated with satellite technology, quoted on Warsaw Stock-Market, the Techmex company. However the GSI solution world’s suppliers (Autodesk, Bentley, ESRI, MapInfo), although they didn’t have their own stalls ( except for Leica Geosystems ) nor agents, were represented by theirs trade partners , or they made speeches during various seminar sessions or training workshops accompanying this event. A few local geoinformatical companies took advantage only of an opportunity to participate in session , and also for example Galileo information point (e.g. EGNOS presentation) and University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań ( an author’s usage example of numerical application of spatial data bases for WIOŚ purposes) The fact that more and more companies are offering complex solutions allowing to manage a commune, a district, a city or a company with the usage of spatial data was clearly noticeable. Confirmation of significance of this type of proposal was an all day session entitled “District and urban systems of geographical information in management” However, the opinions presented during the session lead by professor Jerzy Gaździcki regarding difficulties in geoinformation growth in Poland convinced of disturbing lack of real actions of national decision-makers for the information society and growth of new technologies. Geodesy equipment
Two Leica Geosystems AG equipment distributors had a similar offer. Czerski Trade Polska put emphasis first of all on SmartStation module based on tachometer TPS 1200, Smart Antenna ATX1230 and communication adapter GAD104. An offer “full client service + training + audit + putting into production “ created especially for this kind of equipment was emphasized. IG T. Nasadowski partnership focused on presentation of GPS receivers (GRX 1200 Lite/Classic/Pro) and software intended for reference stations. During exhibitors lecture session a reference station TYCH working in Silesia was mentioned. From specialists form Geosystems Poland , sharing the stall with the Czereski company, one could obtain information regarding digital camera with ADS40 line scanner and LIDAR ALS50 scanner. Furthermore, the company offers 8.7 LPS version and Virtual Delivery - new module in Erdas Virtual GIS. Europe’s Automap with Tele Atlas data base was announced for the end of October (the new solution among others is pseudoperspective with 3D map shift) Impexgeo and Geotronics Cracow presented together first of all the newest tachymeter Trimble S6 with servomotors and reflectorless measurement. On the stall one could find GPS receivers including Pathfinder ProXH with the newest Everest technology (elimination of resonated signals), which gives exactness below 20 cm in postprocessing. More over Nikkon offer was showed: tachymeters (DTM-332, DTM-362 and reflectorless NPL-332 and NPL-352) and optical levels (AX-2S, AC-2S), and also laser levels Spectra Precision (Trimble). TPI company, Topcon equipment distributor , came to fairs with millimetre GPS, and also GPS receivers designed for GIS market (a new model ,whose premiere will be at Intergo in October , with Windows CE , Bluetooth , GLONASS signal receipt and built-in camera was announced) photogrammetrical system PI-3000 and tachymeters GPT-3000(L)N, GPT-7000i (awarded with GEA 2005 prize ) i GPT-8200A. On COGiK stall , supplier of Sokka solutions, electronical tachymeters series SETx30RK (see page 52). One could obtain information regarding series SETx230RM (coming to our market). Furthermore tachymeters SET from x10, x30R, x130R3, x030R3 series were offered as well as Radian IS and Stratus GPS receivers and also optical levels and accessories. Geopryzmat , agent of Pentax , presented tachymeter from the newest R-300 series with measurement without mirror up to 200 m - model R-325N, and also levels from AP-100 series , selflevelling levels , selffocusing level AFL-240. The only foreign exhibitor was Nedo GmbH company & Co. traditionally present on fairs with the offer of optical and laser levels , tripods and geodetic equipment. Passus company , supplier of mobile devices, came with tablets , notebooks and PDA devices of Itronix and Unitech, and also with reinforcing casings for tablets and PDA’s. The products presented during fairs were distinguished by resistant construction and innovative technology allowing to communicate with the usage of wireless interfaces like GPRS, EDGE, WLAN and Bluetooth. The access to Internet for all exhibited devices was assured by Ethernus network server form Embedos. Scanning and copying Océ Poland company except for TCS 400 , well known colour copying , printing and scanning system for the wide spread shit format documents ( 120 installation in Poland ) and also TDS400 showed newest TDS450 system . it was basically the world’s premiere for this solution. Scanner reaching at 600 dpi speed of 5mb/min was revolutionary in this system. The Agraf company came with the Colortrac wide spread shit format scanners , Canon plotters and WiseImage 6.0 Pro Geo software. DKS offered KIP copyingplotters, scanners and CONTEX software for copying and scanning. However Seiko LP-1010 MFa digital multifunction tool, presented by Epcot Poland, had its Polish premiere. Data and software Techmex partnership from Bielsko on the largest fair stall (36 m2) presented a rich offer from the range of spatial satellite imaging. The Ortophotomaps raised from the processing of high-resolution pictures of Ikonos enjoyed wide interest. An all day seminary regarding spatial information systems and SCOR was also organised by Ikonos. It’s contribution to the growth of geoinformation market in Poland and putting new GIS technologies into operation was honoured by GUGiK with a diploma. Fin Skog Geomatics International form Gdynia came with the offer of services from GIS range, photogrametry, and teledetection , as well as Quick­Bird, SPOT and Landsat satellite images and ESRI and PCI software. Cracow Dephos presented its photogrametry station for PC and laser scanning system from Fli-Map chopper (a new version announced from January 2006) and an offer of services and air-photos elaboration as well as NMT i ortophotomaps relating to it. One of the most impressive stalls was occupied by the Systherm Info company , on which one could get to know their flag product - spatial information system the Geo-Info V. Geomar , member of the ComputerLand Group , presented network management system called Planet facilplus Spatial using Oracle data base. Warsaw company Imagis offered MapInfo 8.0 software. Satellite navigation system MapaMap arouse interest. Softline offered version 7.0 of C-GEO application (in sale since April) and M-GEO application intended for psion for inspection at place. He shared his stall with AXED company , agent of PSION Teklogix, which presented new workabouts - Pro and Pro S - with Windows Mobile 2003 SE or CE.NET. Warsaw company Designers SJ came with road and bridge objects management system eDIOM, and also Geodesk 3D 2005 based on the newest version of Autodesk Land Desktop 2005. Aplikom 2001 offered two new releases : Vectorizer and Synchronizer , both based on WiseImage technology. Further more Autodesk products , and also city and commune spatial management system InterGIS - CAD Expert product. Fairs debutant was a cracov company ProGea Consulting with interesting geoinformatical solutions like : ER Mapper 7.0, Image Web Server for integration of big raster pictures and making them accessible, and also WGEO 4.0 for calibration , processing and transformation raster and vector data. Wroclaw company GeoTechnologies offered their standard products : Oskar 3.0, Osnowa GT and Plan GT. Furthermore solutions from British GDC (PlanAccess, Plan Web, GeoStore) and ArchiSkan. Poznań GEPOL , creator of digital technology for sozological and hydrographical map of Poland 1:50 000 , offered both kinds of map in digital as well as analogue version, MapInfo Professional Software and it’s service training and also Lodz company Empa application. OpeGieKa Elbląg presented putting into operation it’s solutions based on Bentley Systems software. Another new was Communicator - tool for data exchange between the contractor of geodetic works and ODGiK, and also Spectrum - system supporting management in city council administration units (data wholesale) CARD/1 - POL from Gdansk, general distributor of German software CARD/1 ( tools supporting geodesy solutions and designing in the range of land engineering) , presented it’s advantages not only at the stall but also during exhibitor’s session. As for the Warsaw Kom-Pakt he came with Kom-Net - GIS solution for waterworks-sawage companies and heat engineering From the opportunity of lecture presentation advantage took companies Drocad with Technet GmbH programs and Vestra CAD software and also Rector with the family of geoinformatical systems for infrastructure companies. Universities and administration
One and only representative of state universities among exhibitors was traditionally Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski with author’s technology of installing and exploitation of reproducible warps with the usage of GPS, educational computer programs package and expertise in the range of estimation of numerical map precision. However on the stall of the known leasing company - recently appeared under a changed name GeoLeasing (so far known as OOF) - teaching offer for this year’s Geodesy and Cartography course at Wyższa Szkoła Działalności Gospodarczej in Warsaw was also presented.
Administration was represented by two institutions only. GUGiK offered new technical instructions : GIS-3 (hydrographical map) and GIS-4 (sozologic map), “Poland Geographical Atlas for blind and sand-blind” awarded this year and topographic maps. As for the Office of Marshal of Wielkopolskie Voivodeship along with the local WODGiK were offering hydrographic and sozologic maps , otophotomaps, and also author’s meliorative lap based on GEO-INFO and CADRaster

Visitors pleased,
New equipment, new technologies , more exhibitors , larger surface , rich sessions and training offer so the visitors have their reasons to be pleased.
Honourable patronage performed
-MAIN GEODESIST OF THE COUNTRY
-MARSHAL OF WIELKOPOLSKIE VOIVODESHIP
-ECONOMY CHAMBER OF GEODESY
-GEO-INFORMATIONAL MAGAZINE GEODETA