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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Universal Address and GPS Enhanced Google Maps for iPhones

NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones – a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GPS enhanced Google Maps for all HTML5 enabled mobile web browsers to provide locating, searching and routing services supported with detail street maps,

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

MaxSea – Ultra Fast Cartographic Engine

MaxSea’s Time Zero software offers a new ultra fast cartographic engine with unparalleled seamlessness and speed of zooming. Nautical charts, 3D data, and aerial photos are combined to provide you with the best maritime information and a realism that has never before been achieved. Read More

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

IBGE Launches Collection of Thematic Maps Addressing Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Soils of the Amazon

The IBGE launches a collection of thematic maps addressing Vegetation, Geology, Geomorphology and Soils of the Amazon. With scale representation of the state official (1:1.800.000, that every inch equals the 18 kms) and updated satellite images, fieldwork and data from previous studies, the material was prepared as part of the commitment of IBGE produce information about

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

First Draft of the Basic Geographic Nomenclature of Spain (NGBE) Available

This is a first version of provisionally (pending the publication of the first final version of NGBE v1.0), which have extracted all the place names of Numerical Cartographic Base 1:25.000 (BCN25) and have briefly subjected to purification consisting of partial removal of repeated place names and the total elimination of place names for foreign countries.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

SuperGeo Announces Geoportal LLC A Reseller in Belarus

SuperGeo Technologies is excited to announce its new reseller in Belarus, where Geoportal LLC is authorized to distribute SuperGIS series software. Located in Minsk, Belarus, Geoportal LLC provides field survey PDA, Total Stations, GPS controllers, etc. for local users. Since the customers have strong requirements for full function mobile GIS software at a reasonable price, Geoportal

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

CompassData Archive Surpasses 15,000 Ground Control Points

The Control Freaks at CompassData recently passed an important milestone. We added our 15,000th GCP to our Online Archive. It is the largest online archive of photo-identifiable Ground Control Points. When you order any of our GCPs, you also receive supporting metadata including site photos, data precision reports and point sketches. There is no other archive like

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Exprodat Steals the Show at PETEX

The recent PETEX 2010 conference saw the oil and gas exploration and production community come together for a week in Earl’s Court. The conference was supported by an extremely well attended exhibition that allowed product and services companies to present their offerings to a combination of oil & gas professionals and recent graduates.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Vertice and Autodesk: an Interactive Real-time 3D Collaboration

Vertice is now a member of the Autodesk Architecture Preferred Industry Partner Program and the only company outside the USA to have been selected in this program for Architecture. The collaboration between Autodesk and Vertice helps to provide a stronger, more accurate foundation for creating designs more efficiently. “Together, Autodesk and Vertice provide an easy and

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

BroadMap Data to Power Key Online Maps

BroadMap, a leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data, services and solutions provider, and TrueVector Technologies, a first-generation interactive mapping company, today announced an agreement that combines BroadMap’s premium geospatial data and GIS services with TrueVector’s interactive online maps. TrueVector Technologies solves diverse challenges for clients by using online mapping tools that visually display data and provide

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Industrial Survey – Deformation Analysis, Precision Measurement

AAM Industrial Surveyors are tasked with a variety of projects that involve supplying accurate 3D as-built information about a structure; deformation monitoring of surfaces subject to wear, and mapping objects in motion. This case study describes a package of works, dubbed ‘Measure, Monitor, Map’, undertaken at BlueScope Steel’s Number 5 blast furnace at Port Kembla during