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Friday, September 28th, 2007

Information Builders Enters Worldwide OEM Agreement With ESRI

Information Builders, the leader in production business intelligence (BI) systems, today announced that it has reached a worldwide OEM agreement with ESRI. Information Builders will now bundle ESRI ArcGIS Server along with its WebFOCUS business intelligence and iWay Software integration solutions. ArcGIS Server 9.2 extends the robust reporting capabilities of its BI solution through the

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Trimble Acquires Ingenieurbüro Breining GmbH in Germany

Trimble announced today that it has acquired Ingenieurbüro Breining GmbH of Kirchheim, Germany, a provider of customized field data collection and office software solutions for the cadastral survey market in Germany. Financial terms were not disclosed. The addition of Breining software resources, expertise and products enable Trimble to further address local application requirements and provide customized

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

GSA and Bentley Collaborate on New GSA BIM Guide

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that Bentley collaborated with GSA on the development of “The Building Information Modeling (BIM) Guide Series 02 – Spatial Validation Program.” The guide helps designers developing Final Concept designs for GSA’s Public Buildings Services (PBS) meet GSA’s spatial program BIM minimum requirements. The

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Intermap Technologies on Schedule to Enable EU with Data

Intermap Technologies, Corp. announced that its commercial initiative to create a uniform high accuracy 3-D map of all of Western Europe called NEXTMap Europe can enable geospatial professionals to meet mandates spelled-out in Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament. The EU Directive mandates the establishment, within the next several years, of an Infrastructure for Spatial

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Magellan Enters China GPS Market

Magellan®, the fastest-growing GPS brand in the world, has officially launched its products in China, with the introduction of three new products, the Magellan Maestro 3200C, 8200C and 8250C. With this new line of premium and affordable auto navigation devices, Magellan is delivering its U.S. industry-leading quality, performance and service to the Chinese market. Designed

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

3D Geo GmbH Shows Its Color

Numerous novelties on the occasion of the INTERGEO 2007: Presentation of an automatically generated 3D city model of Leipzig, two new software systems and many more highlights. www.3dgeo.de

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

Break Through Contract for 3D Photo Navigator

Blom has entered into its first agreement for sale software and content for 48 000 personal navigators (PND) to the Spanish company I-Joy S.A, as a first launch in Spain for the after summer campaign. The navigators will target the market in Madrid and Barcelona. The agreement is a major breakthrough for Bloms technology and

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

BlueSky Launches ‘Shop for Home: Buy for Business’ Aerial Map Shop

Aerial survey company BlueSky has launched a brand new buy online service; www.bluesky-world.com/mapshop, providing instant access to the most accurate, up-to-date and detailed aerial photomaps covering the whole of England and Wales. BlueSky’s ‘Shop for Home: Buy for Business’ service enables visitors to select an area of interest, view the aerial image and then purchase

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Russia: Satellite Launch Plans

SCANEX R&D – By mid 2007, 12 satellites have been launched with the Earth observation instruments for different purposes (Table 1.) China and Japan are the leaders (2 satellites each) in the number of Earth remote sensing satellites launched. India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Russia and Germany launched one satellite each.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Intermap Technologies Awarded $2.2 M Mapping Contract

Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced that it has been awarded a new $2.2 million radar mapping contract. Under the agreement, the Company will collect and deliver 3D digital elevation models (DEMs) and orthorectified radar images (ORIs) utilizing Intermap’s interferometric synthetic aperture radar (IFSAR) mapping technology. Data will be collected and delivered in 2007. Read More