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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Aon Benfield Selects International Geocoding from Pitney Bowes Business Insight

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, today announced that the world’s premier reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor, Aon Benfield, has signed a deal for its Spectrum data management solution, incorporating the Enterprise Geocoding module, Location Intelligence module and global data. 

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Hemisphere GPS Reports 2010 Q4 Year-End Results

Hemisphere GPS, a designer and manufacturer of advanced GPS products, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. All amounts in this news release are expressed in US dollars. For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2010, Hemisphere GPS reported $12.2 million in revenues, compared to$12.1 million recorded in the fourth quarter of

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

NOAA’s Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt Receives MAPPS Public Service Award

Nicholas “Miki” Schmidt, Coastal Geospatial Services Division Chief, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC, has been presented the MAPPS Public Service Award. Mr. Schmidt was recognized for forging public-private partnerships, and inter-agency and inter-governmental arrangements to carry out NOAA projects that promote economic development and environmental balance in

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Geoscape Introduces Next-Generation GIS Platform

Driven by the surge of diverse cultural groups such as Hispanics and Asians, corporations are asking themselves how they will capitalize and better-serve the emerging American marketplace. Geoscape unveiled today its latest solution to addressing the modern American family through its “Next-Generation” platform. The Geoscape Intelligence System, or GIS helps corporate operations and marketing departments

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Pitney Bowes Business Insight Launches MapInfo Manager

Pitney Bowes Business Insight announced the launch of MapInfo Manager, a revolutionary application that allows GIS managers, IT managers and data stewards to more easily catalog, search and locate geospatial data for anyone within an organization. By ensuring that users are never more than three clicks away from finding their necessary data sets, MapInfo Manager

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

DataCAD Announces InventBetter Suite 2011

DataCAD Software & Services GmbH, a provider of technical software solutions for the industry, today announced the release of InventBetter Suite 2011 from Geomate that enables users to solve a wide range of design and engineering challenges with unprecedented ease, speed, and accuracy.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

NZGO Builds National Geospatial Skills Database

On 3 March 2011, the New Zealand Geospatial Office offered to build a database of geospatial professionals who may be available to provide relief for the people based in Wellington and Christchurch who are working on Christchurch earthquake efforts.

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

ScanEx Becomes Member European Association of Remote Sensing Companies

According to the decision of the Board of Directors of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) in March 2011 the Russian company – ScanEx Research & Development Center – was admitted as a acting member of the Association. The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies was established in 1989. EARSC – is the

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

MDL to Deliver Pointools Software with Every New 3D Laser Scanner

Measurement Devices Limited (MDL), a leading laser scanner manufacturer has entered into an agreement with Pointools Ltd. to deliver high-performance point cloud software with every new 3D laser scanner starting at SPAR 2011 – the premier 3D laser scanning conference. Pointools software is used by project teams to reference and reuse the largest point cloud

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Leica Geosystems Announces a Major Update to Cyclone II TOPO

Leica Geosystems announces a major update to Cyclone II TOPO, version 2.0 at SPAR 2011 International conference. The new version automates the previously time-consuming process of creating accurate ground surfaces (TINs or meshes) from rich High-Definition Survey™ (HDS™) point clouds.  Now, users can create these surfaces in minutes instead of hours or even days. Learn