STAR-APIC to Show New Major Release of Mercator at AAG Annual Meeting

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Mercator Suite 7, the new version of STAR-APIC’s cartographic production software, will be demonstrated for the first time in the US on the STAR-APIC stand (booth 419) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) from March 23-27, 2009 in Las Vegas. Over 7000 visitors and delegates are expected to attend this year’s event that includes over 4000 presentations and over 60 exhibitors. In addition to the introduction of PDF, Mercator Suite 7 offers a range of new functions, enabling its users to produce maps and related products even more easily and efficiently than before. A number of these functions have been integrated from MercatorDB, the database-linked version of Mercator, which will also be demonstrated. In addition to exhibiting, the STAR-APIC team are also presenting a Workshop “Producing q

uality mapping efficiently and consistently with MERCATOR” on Wednesday March 25th at 3:10pm. http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/workshops.htm#25

About STAR-APIC
With more than 25 years experience and five international offices in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, the STAR-APIC Group has become one of the major suppliers of Geographic Information System software for network management (water, electricity, telecom, data centers), local authorities, national
government and national mapping agencies.

STAR-APIC’s Mercator software product is used world-wide by mapping agencies, publishers, transport authorities and government to produce the highest quality
output for both print and electronic distribution. Customers include Rand McNally, Ordnance Survey GB, Ordnance Survey Ireland, Philips, AA, Royal Air Force (GB),
IGN France, IGN Belgium and Survey of India. www.star-apic.co.uk