Between October 1999 and March 2000, Auckland, New Zealand hosted the largest sporting event ever held in the country, the America's Cup Yacht Race. This paper investigates the impact of this race on destination crime rates, especially against tourists: it statistically models tourism-related crime observing that there was no significant difference between the victimization rates of domestic an...

Why we changed the name: We were concerned that a certain publishing company would become displeased upon learning of the enormous profits we were reaping through the use of one of their trademark phrases. In fact, I write these words to you from the sun-drenched deck of my 70-foot luxury yacht (WBFD III), which straddles the little Laramie river just north of town. It's a peculiar site I suppo...

An attacker’s ability to covertly control a maritime surface vessel by broadcasting counterfeit civil Global Positioning System (GPS) signals is analyzed and demonstrated. The aim of this work is to explore civil maritime transportation’s vulnerability to deceptive GPS signals. It is shown that, despite access to a variety of high-quality navigation and surveillance sensors, modern maritime nav...

The application of the cadastral concept in common law jurisdictions is reviewed. The relationship between a cadastre and a statewide parcel based land information system is highlighted. The origins and evolution of cadastres are described. The characteristics and development of existing land administration systems in common law jurisdictions are discussed. It is suggested that there is a consi...

Botswana recently embarked on an effort to improve its National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). This paper takes an example of the country’s effort to improve information for land administration and the problems this effort has had because of a poor spatial data infrastructure. It then discussed how the current effort is likely to have impact on the organization of information for land mana...

The international initiatives by various agencies (such as World bank, FAO, UN, FIG, etc.) suggest that cadastre and land registration systems are currently undergoing major changes worldwide. On such changes, the emerging trends focus on easy access to land, security of land tenure, establishment and operation of efficient land markets, formalization of property rights, incorporating customary...

The literature paints a fairly common scenario for developing countries. It is one in which land is an increasingly scarce resource; where distribution is perceived to be unequal; where compensation for land required for infrastructure is unfair; where revenue through taxes is low and disproportionately shared; where land transactions are expensive and bureaucratic and where the levels of dispu...

In this paper, we introduce the concepts of “cooperative buildings” and “roomware” and place them in the context of the integrated design of real, physical, resp. architectural spaces and virtual, resp. digital information spaces. By “roomware” we mean computer-augmented things in rooms, like doors, walls, furniture, and others. The general approach is detailed via examples from the i-LAND proj...