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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

AAM Wins Multiple State and National Spatial Excellence Awards

At the 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards, AAM was the recipient of both theJ.K Barrie Award: Overall Winner of all submissions in 2010 and the Infrastructure andConstruction Award. The J.K Barrie Award represents the pinnacle of achievement in the spatialindustry and is the highest award the national panel of judges can confer. Given JK

Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

Alibre Launches Next Generation 3D Design Software – Alibre Design 2011

Alibre Inc. www.alibre.com, the award-winning developer of the world’s most affordable professional 3D design solutions, today announced a huge leap in 3D CAD design performance with the release of its latest version, Alibre Design 2011.  Alibre Design 2011 now makes 3D designing easier and more robust with major enhancements, including a complete top to bottom

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Esri to Showcase Complete Geospatial System at GEOINT 2010

National security, defense, and intelligence professionals will get to see demonstrations of Esri’s complete geospatial system for intelligence at next week’s GEOINT 2010 Symposium. The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation hosts GEOINT, regarded as the premier geospatial intelligence event in the United States. The symposium will be held November 1–4 at the Ernest N. Morial

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

AfriSpatial and OpenGeo to Partner in Support of Southern African Geospatial Users

AfriSpatial, an expert GIS systems and services provider, and OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, today announced a reseller agreement that will bring the first Enterprise FOSS stack offering to the southern African market. AfriSpatial will assume first line support for the OpenGeo Suite for end users in countries throughout southern Africa, while gaining privileged

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Iran City Reveals Masterplan

Isfahan, Iran’s second city and a global Islamic cultural hub, has set its sights on becoming the Republic’s leading ‘e-municipality’ and a regional e-government leader. The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world’s largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT masterplan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Scotland – Geospatial Metadata and Spatial Data Workshop

EDINA, a JISC-funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online Go-Geo! resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data repository. Workshop participants will also be introduced to a range of accessible web sources for spatial data. The workshop is part an effort

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

LEDAS Releases LGS 3D v4 Constraint Solver for Assembly Design and Direct Modeling

LEDAS Ltd today announced the release of version 4.0 of LGS 3D, its powerful geometric constraint solver. This is the core technology for parametric design software, allowing users to express their design intent in 3D parts and assemblies through geometric and dimensional constraints. Version 4.0 introduces important new functions that customers will find useful for assembly

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

Trimble Acquires ThingMagic RFID Technology

Trimble announced that it has acquired the business of ThingMagic, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts. ThingMagic is a leading developer of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and offers advanced development services to facilitate the integration of RFID into a wide range of applications. The acquisition expands Trimble’s technology portfolio and will enable the company to provide

Monday, October 25th, 2010

GeoCue Strengthens LidarGrammetry Intellectual Portfolio

GeoCue Corporation, the inventor of LIDARgrammetry, has an extensive portfolio of intellectual property for creating and exploiting a variety of LIDAR data using image processing and conventional photogrammetric techniques. LIDARgrammetry, among other features, provides producers and exploiters of LIDAR data methods of using these data in conventional photogrammetric workflows. These tools are encapsulated in the

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 3.2 for Adobe Photoshop

Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher® cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator® and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager 3.2 for Adobe Photoshop. Along with support for Adobe CS5 and Mac OS 64-bit, it includes the ability to create and export geospatial PDF documents and terrain shading functionality.