InterGEO 2016: Day 3 (Thursday)

Well, it is nice to be back home in Salt Lake today.

Yesterday (Friday) I took a 6:10 am flight from Hamburg to Amsterdam, then a direct flight back to Salt Lake City. Because of the time zone change I was back at the office by 1 pm. I had time to checkout a few receivers and ship them by 5. Go figure.

Thursday I only spent 4 hours at the show, and I summarized the pictures on my blog [ here ]. We walked around downtown (I think it was downtown at least), bought some chocolate and stuff for kids. Hamburg is an amazing city. The train, light rail, subway system is great. The way the roads and pedestrian spaces exist in separate spaces is impressive.

The quality of beer has to be tested to be appreciated. Every beer that I tried (and I tried to vary as much as possible) was excellent.

Was the trip worth it? In my case I had a specific set of vendors that I wanted to visit with. It was convenient to see them in one location (disclosure I have stripped all of the pictures of these vendors, and most software vendors, from my blog.) It absolutely was a good thing for me because I reduced three full weeks of foreign travel into a five day trip.

I traveled with a surveyor from Utah and after one hour at the show he was blown away. He found brackets for mounting GPS receivers to his FARO scanner, amazing scan lift tripods (with self leveling heads on top). He spent extended time with a lot of image processing vendors. And he met the primaries at these companies. To be honest, there is a whole group of survey accessories that don't exist in the USA. We literally had to ask what they were. When we figured out what they were, I could not believe that we don't see them regularly.

I don't know that it is a show that USA surveyors would attend every year, but certainly once every five years would not be unreasonable. And I would say you need to go at least once.

Again, here is the link for pictures [ Link For Pictures ]. Sorry I did not post them here, but it is SOOO much easier to post them on my blog than on this forum.