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Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Vue 9 Now Available in German and French

e-on software, makers of the leading solutions for Digital Nature, today announced the immediate availability of the French and German versions of its product line for 3D Enthusiasts and 3D Artists: Vue 9 Pioneer & Theme Packs, Vue 9 Frontier, Vue 9 Esprit, Vue 9 Studio and Vue 9 Complete. E-on software also confirmed that a

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Mapbiquity Offers Free Starter Accounts for Web Map Creation Tools

Small projects now have a powerful, easy resource for getting their maps on the web. Mapbiquity announced over the weekend via Twitter ) its addition of a free account option. The Starter account option provides up to 10 megabytes of geographic data storage and all the functionality paid subscribers enjoy, including data layer upload, map

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

City of Alexandria, Louisiana Selects Autodesk Infrastructure Solutions

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced that the City of Alexandria Louisiana’s Utility Services Department has selected Autodesk infrastructure software to help improve the tracking, accuracy and maintenance of the utility’s assets and data. The solution, which includes Autodesk Topobase and Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise software, will allow the City to more easily share intelligence and

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

ERDAS APOLLO Supports Local Planning Initiatives in Karnataka, India

ERDAS announces that ERDAS APOLLO is being used to support local planning initiatives in Karnataka, India. The Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology was created to improve the quality of life for impoverished populations throughout the state. The Karnataka Natural Resources Data Management System (NRDMS) was established to promote the use of spatial data

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Trimble Launches Mobile GIS Developer Community

Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) launched today the Trimble® Mobile GIS Developer Community. The new site provides a rich and growing selection of developer tools and services, hosted within the Trimble Connected Community (TCC) portal. The online community provides members with access to software tools and services as well as documentation, a developer forum, knowledge base and

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Library of Congress Selects NAVTEQ to Provide Map Data and Content

NAVTEQ announces its selection by the Library of Congress to provide map data for analysis and research within the Library of Congress’ Congressional Cartography Program (CCP). The Congressional Cartography Program (CCP) was established in 2002 at the Library of Congress to respond to congressional inquiries and requests for geospatial information regarding legislative issues. Read More

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Balfour Beatty – Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Maintain Southampton’s Highways

  c Southampton City Council had previously been using Confirm as an on-premise application to manage its highways maintenance programme.  Through integration with PBBI’s MapInfo Professional location intelligence GIS software, the Council was able to pinpoint defects in the road network and associated assets and expedite the necessary repairs.  On taking up the highways contract,

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

New on the Market: Software for Automatic Production of 3D City Models

In 2010 the German company GTA produced with inhouse developed the software tridiconTM 3D more than 180 3D European city models in level of detail 2 (LOD 2) with a total area of more than 5.000 square kilometres. tridiconTM 3D delivers high quality models from stereo aerial imagery. Other suitable data sources are LiDAR data (airborne

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

1Spatial Wins Ground-breaking Framework Agreement with Ordnance Survey

1Spatial (AIM: SPA) today announces that it has been awarded a contract to provide software and services to support the delivery of Ordnance Survey’s Multi Resolution Data Programme (MRDP).  The ground-breaking Framework Agreement between Ordnance Survey and 1Spatial represents a partnership in which both parties are committed to driving automated generalisation forward within an orchestrated

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Register for the DigitalGlobe IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest

DigitalGlobe is supporting this year’s IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest which aims to explore multi-angular acquisitions over the same target area.