GEO: connexion articles from July 2005

GEO: connexion archives from July 2005

How do you advance? Within the GI realm there are many advances. Technological advances are the easiest to identify.
July 1, 2005... They can be seen and are experienced because they often lead to accomplishing task easier, are cheaper and or provide positive results that can be readily measured in terms of quality. Advances relating to people when it comes to...

Hemisphere gets smart.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Hemisphere GPS (Calgary, Canada), a designer and manufacturer of GPS products which is owned by CSI Wireless, has announced the introduction of its own application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chipset technology. The Hemisphere ASIC will...

Let's get together: integrating laser scan data with 3D design environment brings a fresh perspective.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... AVEVA (Cambridge, UK), a supplier of engineering IT solutions and services for the process, energy and marine industries, and Quantapoint (Pennsylvania, USA), provider of as-built documentation using laser scanning, have integrated laser scan...

A connection is made.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Cadcorp (Stevenage, UK) has announced that its Cadcorp SIS (Spatial Information System) software suite is now able to connect directly to ESRI's (California, USA) ArcIMS Image Services. This new capability builds on the multi-format support...

Up, up and away.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... GIS technology was on show for the first time at the Paris Air Show, as part of a geospatial showcase within the US pavilion. ESRI (California, USA) and a number of its business partners were on hand to demonstrate the use of GIS in the...

Sail away.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Following collaboration between several organisations, the Marine Irish Digital Atlas (MIDA) has been launched at http://mida.ucc.ie. The MIDA allows users to access data layers from numerous organisations on a wide variety of topics, view and...

LaserAce[R] GIS Pole: the LaserAce[R] GIS Pole, a unique, fully integrated (and cableless!) GPS and Laser Offset Positioning System.
July 1, 2005... LaserAce[R] GIS Pole is an extremely lightweight (only 2.5kgs) and compact pole, which utilises LaserAce[R] Pocket Series instruments (LaserAce[R] Survey, LaserAce[R] Burdenfinder or LaserAce[R] Hypsometer) complete with Bluetooth...

Nice and easy does it.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... New from MAP & GUIDE (Karlsruhe, Germany) comes map & guide webservices--mapping and routing functionalities that can be combined or used individually, without the need to set up a separate server. Ready-made applications or pre-programmed...

Your true colours: a new image processing tool, PixelSense CIR, has been launched by Alphapixel (Colorado, USA).(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Taking remotely sensed colour infrared images, PixelSense CIR can re-create them in pseudo-natural colour. Input and output is in the GeoTIFF format. A colour infrared image lacks a blue component--instead this has been replaced with infrared....

Prints charming.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... New from Oce is the VarloPrint 5140, a high-end production printing system series which can produce up to 139 pages per minute. It features a total paper input capacity of 15,600 sheets from 12 paper input trays or an optional roll-feeder for...

Better business.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... BusinessMAP 4, the latest version of ESRI's (California, USA) database mapping solution is now shipping. BusinessMAP is designed for the professional market; it transforms information from databases, contact managers, and spreadsheets into...

Call me.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... MapInfo (New York, USA) recently took place in a demonstration to universities and technology companies of an E9-1-1 solution. MapInfo's location intelligence technology is an integral component of the prototype, NG9-1-1. The system is designed...

Lost without you.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... New from Sylvan Ascent (New Mexico, USA) is the TopoPhone: a combination GPS receiver and mobile phone with a complete topographic mapping system. The phone is used to download maps automatically and allows users to see where friends and family...

We can work it out: over one hundred people attended a one-day workshop on promoting satellite navigation applications held at the European space research and technology centre on 26 April 2005 in the Netherlands.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... The European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint Undertaking organised the workshop to provide an open forum for discussion to satellite navigation application developers, users, universities, public authorities, private operators and agencies...

Pegasus flying.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... The Pegasus project, a Belgian initiative to design and build a solar High Altitude Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (HALE UAV), will deliver its earth observation data to users within 30 minutes through the internet. Flying at an...

To the point: a strategic collaborative alliance brings the development of a laser scanning solution.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Leica Geosystems (Heerbrugg, Switzerland) and AVEVA (Cambridge, UK) have jointly announced Leica CloudWorx for AVEVA PDMS. The application integrates with AVEVA's Plant Design Management System (PDMS) to enable AVEVA users to directly...

Cold as ice.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Vexcel Corporation (Colorado, USA) conducted a field campaign in June this year to characterise the seismicity of Columbia Glacier in Southcentral Alaska using a wireless sensor network. Twenty kilometres of ice have disintegrated in the last...

Streamlined solution for agencies.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... PLTS for ArcGIS 9-Mapping Agency Solution is now shipping from ESRI (California, USA). Mapping Agency Solution provides tools to reduce cost and improve the efficiency of creating and maintaining high-quality topographic databases for...

The winner takes it all.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... QinetiQ's (Farnborough, UK) high sensitivity GPS module has been recognised at the annual Security Industry Innovation Awards, winning the award for "best new electronic, communication or internet protocol product". The award comes as the same...

Get your kicks.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... Route 66 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has announced details of Mobile 2006-Symbian UIQ, an on board solution available to turn Symbian UIQ handsets, such as the Sony Ericsson P910, into wireless navigation systems. Mobile 2006-Symbian UIQ...

Geocalc on the up and up.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... An updated version of Blue Marble Geographics' (Maine, USA) GeoCalc 6.1 developer tool kit is now available. This fully object-oriented, cross platform version of Blue Marble's coordinate conversion libraries was created to meet the accuracy...

Dualheads are better than one: Matrox Graphics (Montreal, Canada) has launched the Millennium P650 LP PCIe 64 graphics card.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... This release marks the first low-profile Millennium P-Series product for PCI Express. It features native PCI Express X16 support, 64 MB of graphics memory, and Matrox DualHead for using two digital or analogue monitors at a time. "PC makers and...

2-4-6-8 motorway.(EMERGING TECHNOLOGY)
July 1, 2005... NAVTEQ (Veldhoven, the Netherlands) has integrated extended lane information into its maps for six European countries. The attributes were first introduced and tested in the map of Germany in 2004, and are now available for select junctions on...

Wandering in Wales: accurate measuring and analysis of footpaths in Powys in Wales is just one use of Intermap's (Colorado, USA) NextMap Britain digital landscape map.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Environment Systems (Aberystwyth, Wales), a geographic and environmental information consultancy, has used the terrain map to measure paths in 3D and identify a 50km difference when compared with the same analysis undertaken with normal...

Avenza supports Nairobi mapping project.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Avenza Systems (Toronto, Canada) has pledged its support for HarrysMaps (Switzerland) and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in their project to remap the city of Nairobi, Kenya. Along with other supporters...

Agreement extended for Tele Atlas & TomTom.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Tele Atlas (Gent, Belgium) and TomTom (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) have announced the extension of their technology and distribution agreement to the end of 2007. Under the agreement, Tele Atlas will remain the key provider of digital maps and...

2005 Information Management Awards.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... The Information Management Awards, now in their tenth year, are a European recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information. They are the showcase for the success stories of organisations that have demonstrated...

Team building at Applanix.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Applanix (Ontario, Canada) has made two appointments within its executive management team; Brad Koziey is the new director of sales and Kevin Perkins has taken on the role of executive sales manager for airborne products for the Americas. The...

Development downunder: a new research hub has been set up in Brisbane, Australia by Leica Geosystems (Heerbrugg, Switzerland).(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... The centre will house global research and development for mining and construction industries. Global president of Leica Geosystems' surveying and engineering division, Clement Woon, said the Brisbane headquarters would drive Leica Geosystems'...

A powerful perspective: Project Services (Cheshire, UK), part of the British Nuclear Group, is using aerial photographs from the 1940S to manage, control and assess nuclear licensed sites prior to their development.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... The historic images have been supplied BlueSky (Leicestershire, UK) and will be used in conjunction with current aerial photography for all UK sites managed and operated by Reactor Sites Ltd (part of British Nuclear Group). The imagery will be...

Met Surveys acquire JSM Designs.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Met Surveys (Leeds, UK) has acquired JSM Designs (Leeds, UK), a civil and structural engineering and transport consultancy. The acquisition enhances both Met Surveys engineering and surveying departments and its strategic development of new...

Funding boost for geomatics.org.uk.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Geomatics.org.uk (Newcastle, UK), an outreach to schools programme aimed at building interest in the geomatics profession, has received a cash donation from The Survey Association (TSA). At the AGM for TSA, members raised [euro]959 in a raffle,...

Double the resources.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... European Space Imaging (Munich, Germany) has begun distributing imagery from the new IRS-RESOURCESAT-1 satellite to customers in Europe and North Africa following an agreement with Euromap (Neustrelitz, Germany), the company responsible for the...

Dubai Police in control.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... A contract to generate a 3D city model of Dubai for the Dubai Police command and control centre has been awarded to Space Imaging Middle East (SIME. Dubai, UAE). Generated from aerial and satellite imagery, the model will show buildings in...

Oce DIPS in: Oce wins print contract with BAE Systems Naval Ships in Scotland.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Oce (North Lanarkshire, Scotland) has secured the software contract to supply a multi-site Document Integrated Process System (DIPS) to BAE Systems Naval Ships (Glasgow, Scotland) at Scotstoun and Govan yards in Glasgow, Scotland. Under the...

Thames Gateway project gets the picture.(NEWS)
July 1, 2005... Cities Revealed (Cambridge, UK) has been selected as supplier of high-resolution aerial photography for one of Europe's largest and most ambitious regeneration initiatives. The Thames Gateway London Partnership (TGLP. UK), which is a...

Stock watch: a short summary of recent stock market events and emerging GI related business information.
July 1, 2005... 3D Systems (TDSC) provider of 3-D printing, prototyping and manufacturing solutions announced [euro]24.1 million of revenue for the first quarter; a 3% increase over the prior-year period. Source: 3D Systems May 2005 NovAtel (NGPS),...

Part 1: a lack of 'inspire-ation; A proposed directive aimed at establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the EU is presently going through the EU legislative process.
July 1, 2005... It is widely known as the Inspire Directive. James Robinson, of City law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, explains how the proposals have sensible aims built around a gradualist approach but are significantly flawed in requiring too robustly that...

No river map? No problem: emergency solution for Senegal River survey.
July 1, 2005... You'd think conducting a bathymetric survey of a major waterway, like Africa's Senegal River, would be impossible without an existing digital map, and you'd be right. Recently, though, surveyors came up with an emergency on-site solution that...

Surveying storm damage in Sweden: Jerker Forssten explains how Lantmateriet used a digital mapping camera to survey devastating forest damage after a storm.
July 1, 2005... In the aftermath of a deadly wind storm, the Swedish Forest Administration needed rapid access to accurate information on the extent of tree damage throughout the region. Unfortunately, surveying the forest from the ground was impossible--the...

Bringing together 'islands of information': Neil Mcleod takes a closer look at resolving the issue of interoperability and 'un-locking' the potential of spatial information.
July 1, 2005... One of the major obstacles to local authorities' ability to deliver improved service levels through Internet-enabled government, or e-government, is the 'legacy' of their previous investments in information technology--or more significantly,...

Graduate education: what is it that makes work rewarding for an academic? Why are most of us staying in this business, despite growing administrative chores and salaries paying for just about half of our 60+ hour weeks?
July 1, 2005... Maybe we simply enjoy the gratification brought about by graduate education. For me, graduate education represents the focal point of academic life, where research, teaching, and service functions come together. I use the term here for any form...

Aiding collaboration: interoperability extension expands data use, says Monica Pratt.
July 1, 2005... Developments in GIS data interoperability have been driven by a more profound trend in GIS-the evolution of this technology from a proprietary, project-focused software to a standards-based framework for spatially enabling enterprises. A new...

A global leader in Heerbrugg: my appointment with Clement Woon, president of Leica Geosystems surveying and Engineering Division had been made months ago.
July 1, 2005... A short flight to Zurich from Berlin and then a train ride eastward back toward the Rhine River, would take me to Heerbrugg, Switzerland, where the head offices of the company are located. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Part 2: FIG Working Week 2005 & GSDI-8, Cairo, Egypt; More Geoconnexion snapshots from a week packed with presentations, workshops, technical tours and special events.
July 1, 2005... Saturday 16 April. GSDI Council meeting and pre-conference technical workshops on standards, education, mobile mapping technology, e-government, and the history of surveying.* [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On the...

From ancient to modern: Geoconnexion finds out how, in the birthplace of surveying, the Egyptian Survey Authority measures up to today's task.
July 1, 2005... Surveying was already highly advanced when the Great Pyramids at Giza were set out with meticulous precision. And while cubit rods and plumb bobs have been superseded by Total Stations and GPS, visitors to Egypt will find plenty to admire in...

Model project for SIME.(MIDDLE EAST NEWS IN BRIEF)
July 1, 2005... To further its work of equipping a new Command and Control Centre for the Dubai Police, prime contractor Siemens has engaged Space Imaging Middle East (SIME) to generate a 3D City Model of Dubal. This will be based on aerial and satellite...

Award for Jordanian researchers.(MIDDLE EAST NEWS IN BRIEF)
July 1, 2005... Research conducted by the Geography Department at the University of Jordan scooped the Academic & Research category in this year's Intergraph Geospatial User Community Achievement Awards. Accepted on behalf of the Department by Professor Yahya...

A GPS solution keeps the lights shining in St Helens: integration of GPS and GIS to the wider enterprise are providing better service says John Sheward. What happens if the streetlight outside your home plunges into darkness? Who do you call and how soon will it be fixed?
July 1, 2005... If you live in the St. Helens area, between Liverpool and Manchester, in the United Kingdom, and you report such a problem, the light location is verified on a digital map display by a call taker and the work order is routed electronically to...

Press(ing) questions: a regular feature of Intergraph's Geospatial World Conferences are one-to-one Q & A sessions between journalists and the company's senior management. This year's gathering in San Francisco was no exception.
July 1, 2005... We asked Preetha Pulusani, president of Intergraph's newly-constituted Security, Government & Infrastructure division, to elaborate on the 'Now, Next and After Next' corporate strategy... one to which CEO Halsey Wise made frequent reference in...

Bentley Conference Baltimore 2005: the annual Bentley be Conference was held May 8-12 in Baltimore, Maryland under the theme 'it's time for learning'. About 1700 people were in attendance at the conference from numerous different countries.
July 1, 2005... The conference, held at the Baltimore Conference Center on the Chesapeake Bay harbour, began on the Sunday prior to the main event, where a Geospatial Research and Technology Seminar and a Building Research Seminar were held. [ILLUSTRATION...

Multi-dimensional GIS beneath the surface: Erich Fisher asks the question--are archaeological methods still trapped in the stone age?
July 1, 2005... Archaeological excavation is uniquely suited for the application of multi-dimensional representation and analysis because of the unique relationships between the vertical and horizontal distributions of excavated materials and their...

Product review: ENVI 4.1; ENVI 4.1 is the latest release of the popular integrated image analysis and visualisation software from Research Systems, Boulder, Colorado. Originally designed for satellite and aircraft remote sensing data, it provides strong image analysis and visualisation capabilities in a modular fashion.
July 1, 2005... Interactive Data Language (IDL) is a programming language that is also included. It provides a highly flexible and dynamic programming environment for building and applying image analysis applications in a customised manner that enhance...

3D Cartographic Production Platform: Xabier Velasco discusses the journey from cartography to corporate information systems.
July 1, 2005... Trabajos Catastrales, S.A. has designed and developed a new 3D Cartographic Production Platform. This development helps companies dedicated to information production in Spain where organizations such as public administrations and the...

Addressing SDI in education: SDI is a hot topic in the education area, Ingo Simonis explains why.
July 1, 2005... Do you remember the old days? A teacher stood in front of the class, lecturing for hours while the students tried to follow. Based on the idea of instruction and systematic knowledge transport, students were forced into the role of the passive...

Environment Management with GIS.
July 1, 2005... The Centre for GeoInformatics, Salzburg University, Austria is coordinating a project in partnership with Royal Bhutan Institute of Technology, Phuentsholing, Bhutan and Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University...

Is infrastructure enough? Imagine your national motorway system devoid of traffic. Imagine your hospitals full of patients, but missing doctors, nursing staff and the latest medical diagnostic equipment.
July 1, 2005... Imagine your schools and universities endowed with the latest facilities but lacking teachers or administrative staff or books or lab equipment. Imagine your telecommunications system with broadband capacity to spare, connections to every home,...

Diary & events.(Calendar)
July 1, 2005... IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOUR EVENT INCLUDED ON THIS PAGE PLEASE EMAIL THE DETAILS TO rosiewaddicor@geoconnexion.com July 2005 3-6, Southampton, UK. CC: The Exchange. Details: Event for national mapping agencies....

ADW Software.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... ADW Software (Vosselaar, Belgium) has recently appointed Western Latitudes (Centennial, USA) as exclusive Pythagoras distributor in North America. Western Latitudes will promote and sell Pythagoras in the USA; it will also concentrate on...

Dudley Primary Care Trusts and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Dudley Primary Care Trusts and Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC, UK) are using Cities Revealed (Cambridge, UK) aerial photography as part of a promotional campaign to encourage physical activity throughout the region. Dudley MBC has...

Derbyshire County Council.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Derbyshire County Council (DCC, UK) has selected Creative Database Projects (CDP, London, UK) to develop a new database system to monitor the development and availability of residential and industrial land in greater detail. It will enable the...

DM Solutions Group.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... DM Solutions Group (Quebec, Canada) and DMTI Spatial have signed a partnership agreement under which DM Solutions Group will resell DMTI Spatial data. DM Solutions Group will be offering Maps for MapServer, including DMTI Spatial's CanMap data...

DigitalGlobe.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... DigitalGlobe (Colorado, USA) has announced that RMTC/URS, along with Kauai County and the State of Hawaii, has purchased high-resolution QuickBird satellite imagery for digital mapping in Hawaii. RMTC/URS is a joint venture between R.M. Towill,...

State University of New York.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... The State University of New York (USA) has awarded ESRI president, Jack Dangermond, an honorary doctorate degree in science for his outstanding social and technological contributions to local and global communities". It was presented at the...

CRESTA.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... The CRESTA (Catastrophe Risk Evaluation and Standardising Target Accumulations) organisation is tasked with the management of natural hazard risk coverage from an insurance point of view. It records flooding, earthquakes and storms in a...

Intergraph.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Intergraph (Alabama, USA) has signed a reseller agreement with Skyline Software Systems (Virginia, USA) under which Intergraph will resell Skyline's TerraExplorer suite of products with its GeoMedia suite. Users integrating data collected and...

Laser-Scan.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Laser-Scan (Cambridge, UK) has announced Proteus (Cork, Ireland) as the latest company to join Laser-Scan's team of Radius Topology solution providers. This partnership extends Laser-Scan's network of partners to Ireland and will enable...

MapInfo Corporation.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... MapInfo Corporation (New York, USA) has acquired MarkeTech Systems (North Carolina, USA), a provider of software, data and services for use by retail banks to enhance branch network sales and profitability. The acquisition will expand MapInfo's...

NavCom Technology.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... NavCom Technology (California, USA) has signed an agreement with Espatial Resources (ESR Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) under which ESR will become a dealer providing NavCom Technology's GIS and remote sensing solutions in Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam,...

Spicerhaart and Multimap.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Spicerhaart, an independent estate agent, and Multimap (London, UK) have announced the deployment of Multimap's aerial photography services on the websites of Spicerhaart's portfolio of property brands: haart, Spicer McColl, Darlows, Felicity...

PCI Geomatics.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... PCI Geomatics (Ontario, Canada) has set up a new centre of excellence at Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing. It will focus on several themes, including natural resource management, place-based decision support and prototyping...

Petrobras.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... The oil company Petrobras (Brazil) has extended its contract with RADARSAT International (Richmond, Canada) for the use of RADARSAT-1 data and services in support of its environmental programme. The one-year extension is worth [euro]473000; the...

Septentrio.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... A new company website has been launched by Septentrio (Leuven, Belgium), with the goal of providing up-to-date information to clients and enhancing transparency of the company's corporate identity. Designed with usability and accessibility in...

SiRF Technology Holdings.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... SiRF Technology Holdings (California, USA) has acquired Motorola's GPS chip set product lines; as part of the agreement, SiRF also has become a preferred GPS technology supplier to Motorola. SiRF will integrate the chip set lines into its...

Surco.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Darrell Smart has been appointed as the new director of publications by the Surco (UK) board of directors. Smart previously held the post of editor of publications at Surco, a wholly owned publications and marketing company of the Institution...

Tele Atlas.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... Tele Atlas (Gent, Belgium) has achieved full ISO/TS 16949 certification; the international automotive standard is a measure of quality within a company's management system and Tele Atlas has been certified for every stage of activity from...

UNOSAT.(BUSINESS)
July 1, 2005... The website for the United Nations initiative, UNOSAT, has been re-designed for ease of use and to provide enhance features such as databases. Users can now access data sources and advisory services more easily which will aid UNOSAT in its...

Paradigm Imaging.(HARDWARE)
July 1, 2005... Paradigm Imaging (California, USA) has launched the Express Imaging Station (EIS) series, a large-format system which provides functionality such as scanning, copying and printing of graphics for the GIS and CAD markets. The series consists of...

Sokkia.(HARDWARE)
July 1, 2005... Sokkia (Almere, the Netherlands) has extended its construction laser range with the launch of the LP310 self-levelling rotating laser. Designed to work at long ranges (around 600m), it has an accuracy of 10". Its tilt function includes the news...

TDC.(HARDWARE)
July 1, 2005... TDC (Hants, UK), a distributor of specialist technical electronic components, has announced the availability of the HMC6352 electron compass from Honeywell. It features two-axis magnetic field sensing and is suited for applications such as GPS,...

Avenza Systems.(SOFTWARE)
July 1, 2005... Avenza Systems (Toronto, Canada) has released version 6.2 of its MAPublisher software. The package is compatible with the recently released Adobe Creative Suite 2. "The timely release of MAPublisher 6.2 is demonstrative of our continuing...

DM Solutions Group.(SOFTWARE)
July 1, 2005... DM Solutions Group (Ontario, Canada) has launched an open source online mapping project to provide an interactive and continuous user experience for future online mapping applications. The project, ka-Map, will be included in future products...

GeoConcept.(SOFTWARE)
July 1, 2005... GeoConcept (Paris, France) has released updates to GeoScheduling Suite. The software can be used to optimise travel for workers who spend a lot of time on the road. By combining geographical knowledge with optimisation algorithms, distances...

Leica Geosystems.(SOFTWARE)
July 1, 2005... Leica Geosystems (California, USA) has released an addition to its CloudWorx family of products: CloudWorx 1.0 for Intergraph SmartPlant Review is a software solution that enables viewing, clashing, and managing proposed 3D plant design models...