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Land Info introduces Quick DOQQ Aerial Photos
LAND INFO International, LLC, producer of the world's largest commercial databank of digital geographic data, has introduced Quick DOQQ Aerial Photos. This is aerial photography of the United States that has been scanned to a one-meter resolution and ortho-rectified. LAND INFO offers Quick DOQQ's at prices below the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and promises shipments within five business days. The company also markets a full spectrum of enhancement and feature extraction services for the aerial photography. LAND INFO's Quick DOQQ's are priced at just $7/black & white and $14/color infrared. Standard orders are shipped within five business days. LAND INFO offers full USGS coverage of the DOQQ photo library, plus some proprietary coverages. Each DOQQ covers an area of 3.75 minutes of latitude by 3.75 minutes of longitude (roughly four miles by four miles) at a scale of 1:12,000 with a ground resolution of one-meter.
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www.LANDINFO.com
BeyondGeo allows real estate agencies to publish interactive maps on their website.
Blue Marble Geographics' recent release of BeyondGeo, has unleashed a powerful tool for the real estate industry that will transform the way real estate listings are marketed to consumers and
businesses. Using beyondgeo, a real estate agency can publish their realty listings directly onto a map within their own website, with each listing linked to a database that displays complete property information including, audio and video files, quickly and easily. Users that visit a site using the BeyondGeo Internet mapping service are able to zoom down to street level and access complete information on any realty listing, simply by selecting that location with their mouse pointer. Users
can also search by attribute (location, price, # of rooms, etc.) and have the corresponding listings highlighted visually on a map. Blue Marble Geographics provides a map library of street level county maps within BeyondGeo, town parcel maps can also be acquired from local town offices and uploaded to provide detailed parcel and tax information. The custom designed map composer does not require special technical skills to manage the service and up new information can be uploaded within minutes to keep the listings fresh.
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www.beyondgeo.com.
Frost & Sullivan awards Webraska for its contribution to the automotive telematics industry
Webraska has been nominated by industry analyst Frost & Sullivan as one of the five companies that "have worked diligently to make a positive contribution to the automotive telematics industry" in North America. Webraska was attributed the 2001 Market Engineering Award following the publication by Frost & Sullivan of a report on the North American Telematics market. "Frost & Sullivan recognise the tremendous power of telematics systems that integrate wireless telecommunications and interactive information for motorists. Webraska was created based on this very vision, and our Wireless Navigation Platform™, allowing the development and deployment of such advanced applications as Internet-based Distributed Navigation®, is the 'vision come true'. Our solutions are being chosen by leading telecom operators, car manufacturers, consumer brands and corporate software application providers around the world. We are pleased to have our technology and market leadership recognised by such a prestigious market analysis organisation", commented Bruno Bourguet, General Manager Automotive of Webraska.
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www.webraska.com
ArcGIS 8.1 Geostatistical Analyst & MapObjects 2.1 now available in Canada
ESRI Canada, the leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, is now shipping ArcGIS 8.1 Geostatistical Analyst and MapObjects 2.1. Incorporating the power of geostatistics into an unparalleled GIS interface, Geostatistical Analyst provides a wide variety of tools for spatial data exploration, identification of data anomalies, statistical estimation, optimal surface creation, and evaluation of uncertainty in prediction surfaces. Geostatistical Analyst, a new extension for use with the ArcGIS 8.1 Desktop products (ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo), lets anyone with spatial data investigate, visualize, and create surfaces with advanced statistical accuracy. MapObjects 2.1 offers numerous new features including support for AutoCAD 2000 DWG files, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), image catalogs, ArcSDE 8.1 support, the latest ESRI projection engine, custom symbols for chart rendering, and a new run-time deployment utility for easier application distribution.
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www.esricanada.com
Woolpert's GIS Team Expands in Indianapolis
Woolpert LLP recently recruited four individuals as it expanded its geographic information
systems/information technology (GIS/IT) services in Indianapolis. The office previously had only one GIS contact, however, due to an increasing volume of projects in the area, an extended GIS staff was essential. Although they provide support for several Woolpert offices, their physical
presence in Indianapolis reinforces Woolpert's commitment to the Indianapolis area as well as providing GIS support for local users.
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Leica Geosystems starts off well in the new fiscal year
In the first quarter of the current fiscal year (April 1 - June 29, 2001), Leica Geosystems' sales revenues increased 42.6% to CHF 203.3 million; EBITDA rose 42.9% to CHF 28.0 million. Today, Leica Geosystems is one of the world's most comprehensive suppliers of survey technologies and of 3D image-processing software. Leica Geosystems' products and services are used for the capture, visualization and modeling of spatial data, for example, in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The strong growth during this quarter is due mainly to the contributions of the four firms acquired during the previous six months; namely Laser Alignment, Cyra Technologies, LH Systems and ERDAS. Leica Geosystems has fundamentally changed from being a pure manufacturer of surveying equipment and has become a supplier of solutions to the demands for comprehensive spatial information.
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www.leica-geosystems.com
Asia News
Digital Yellow River Project Launched
Sources with the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee said that a digital Yellow River project has been officially launched.
The large-scale operating system will provide database, real- time transmission and processing of information, and support for scientific decision-making.
The system is divided into five sub-systems for the work of taming the Yellow River, including flood control command, water resource coordination, soil and water conservation supervision and control, office automation and a river website.
The committee said that the project will first be applied to making decisions on flood control such as forecasts of floods, and transmission of telecommunications and flood progressing models.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Korean Small Firms to Get Net Help
About one million small firms will be aided by the Korean government to adopt information technology in their businesses, the information ministry said Tuesday.
"We are drawing up plans to support single-proprietor businesses such as supermarkets and small companies with less than 10 employees to enhance productivity by grafting on e-business," a senior official at the Ministry of Information and Communication said.
The million-business target will be reached by 2004, the ministry official said, adding that the project should also boost the depressed information technology industry.
The government has concentrated on supporting medium-size companies and technology start-ups capitalize on information technology so far. Small-business support has been scarce in this area, the official said.
The information ministry met with high-speed Internet operators, including Korea Telecom; software leasing companies, management information software developers and information technology education institutes to discuss how to aid the "informatization" of small companies.
The ministry said it called for information companies and institutes which can help develop the project to form a consortium to develop low-priced Internet software products that small enterprises can use.
The package of products suggested by the ministry would be comprised of broadband Internet services, point-of-sale management software and accounting software, and will be offered to small enterprises at about 60,000 won ($46) to 70,000 won a month.
Source: JoongAng Ilbo(
http://english.joins.com/)
Japanese Enterprises Bring Mobile E-Commerce Innovations to the World Stage
Japanese enterprises are creating a business based on mobile telephony that is unprecedented in the world, according to Cybird Co., Ltd., a Web contents provider for mobile phones.
"What we're doing could bring about a flip conventional business logic," a company spokesman said. "The plans of many of the enterprises that want to be listed on our official menu lack originality. They need some element of interest that doesn't just replicate an existing service."
At present, mobile e-commerce based on Internet access services for mobile phones, like i-mode and EZweb, is separating into two different waves. The first consists of ambitious moves on the part of Japanese enterprises to become world trend setters in creating new businesses based on made-in-Japan mobile infrastructure. The other consists of opportunistic moves to jump on the bandwagon and run businesses that simply copy forerunner companies' services.
The Japanese companies that paved the way in mobile e-commerce are still creating new business without precedent anywhere in the world. The business of selling the i-mode infrastructure is not the only pace-setter coming out of Japan.
Source:
http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/
