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Autodesk Outlines GIS Product Upgrades For 2001
Autodesk will officially announce the new releases of its GIS and land management products on May 15th according to a conference call held last week. Kim Davis, Director, Marketing and Product Management, GIS Division at Autodesk, made it clear at the outset that the new versions were not geared so much toward new features for task automation, but rather toward integrating business processes and collaboration. The products covered in the call included Autodesk Map 5, Autodesk Land Desktop 3, Autodesk Survey 3, Autodesk Civil Design 3 and Autodesk OnSite Enterprise 2.
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Junior Scholastic Announces Winner of 7th Annual 'Can You Find the Mapman?' Contest
Scholastic, the global children's media and publishing company, has announced that Sean Gerhardstein of Gulfview Middle School in Naples, Florida is the grand prize winner of Junior Scholastic magazine's "Can You Find the Mapman Contest?" its 7th annual geography competition. Sean has won a $500 U.S. Savings Bond, and Microsoft Encarta Reference Suite 2001 software. The "Can You Find the Mapman?" contest tests kids' map-reading skills -from recognizing political boundaries and locating cities using latitude and longitude to understanding time zones and measuring distances with a scale of miles or kilometers -and challenges their creativity. This year Jim McMahon, Scholastic's senior cartographer and "Mapman," traveled to a mystery location (L'Anse aux Meadows, an archeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada), and then created a contest requiring kids to trace his route to the secret destination by answering eight questions. To qualify for the grand prize, kids had to answer all questions correctly, and then draw a map of the area. The grand prizewinner and runners-up were selected based on their maps' cartographic accuracy and creativity, including design and color treatment. The contest results are featured in the May 7th issue of Junior Scholastic.
Visit: http://www.scholastic.com/
Image Systems Announces New High Bright FP1700HBMAX Monitor
Image Systems Corporation, a manufacturer of imaging displays, introduces a new FP1700HBMAX AMLCD high bright monitor for applications including medical imaging, air traffic control, satellite imagery, mapping, and other industrial and scientific applications requiring a high bright display for high ambient or sunlight readability. The FP1700HBMAX is a 17-inch display using the latest technology providing a wide, 160-degree viewing angle in both vertical and horizontal planes and very low reflectance. With 16 million colors it is available in either a commercial or medical configuration. The display operates between VGA and 1280 x 1024 with optional NTSC/PAL interface. This product is a direct replacement for Image Systems' FP1610HBMAX, a 16" high bright AMLCD that was successfully installed in FAA sites, the International Space Station and various military applications.
Visit: http://www.imagesystemscorp.com/
Hermantown selects CityView to automate local government processes
Municipal Software Corporation, a developer of local government business process automation software, has announced that local authorities in the City of Hermantown, Minnesota have selected CityView, which provides forms automation software combining forms and reports with mapping, Web enablement, and database management, to automate the local government front-office processes. City officials selected CityView based upon the fact that the product could provide city government with an extremely scaleable solution. Hermantown has committed to implementing the new system within the next 30 days. Municipal Software will provide on-site training for city employees as well as data conversion services.
Visit: www.MunicipalSoftware.com
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Intergraph's GeoSpatial World 2001
With the inaugural launch of GeoSpatial World 2001 just weeks away, Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions is putting the final touches on conference preparations for the June 18-20 event in
Atlanta, Georgia. GeoSpatial World is attracting a broad international audience of mapping and GIS professionals who want to capitalize on their GIS and its potential. Professionals from the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Jordan, Spain, England, Nigeria, India, Hong Kong, Croatia, Norway, South Africa, the Republic of China, Germany, and New Zealand are among the attendees
already registered. GeoSpatial World is targeted at decision makers, managers, staff, and users
who create or use geospatial information technology to solve problems in the public or private sector, or academia. The conference is open to Intergraph customers and professionals and students who have an interest in the mapping and GIS field. Early registration deadline is May 25.
Visit: www.intergraph.com/geospatialworld.
Cadcorp and Informatix mark the sale of over 5000 Cadcorp SIS licences in Japan
Cadcorp and its Japanese distributor Informatix recently celebrated the sale of over 5000 Cadcorp SIS licences in Japan. A celebratory luncheon was held at the Cafe Royal in London at which management and staff of Cadcorp dined with the President of Informatix, Masanori Nagashima and his company Managing Director Shoichi Mihara. To mark this key milestone in the Cadcorp/Informatix trading relationship, Mike O'Neil, Managing Director of Cadcorp presented Informatix with a lead crystal globe, which represented the Cadcorp logo.
SCLEC Awards $7.2M Contract to Intergraph Public Safety
Intergraph Public Safety (IPS) has been selected by the Sonoma County Law Enforcement Consortium (SCLEC), California, to provide a regional, multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional solution for computer aided dispatch (CAD), mobile data /field reporting, and records management (RMS) for law enforcement. The contract award is valued at $7.2 million.
Covering more than 1,604 square miles and serving approximately 437,100 people, SCLEC receives more than 600,000 calls for service a year. The new CAD system will support Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, and the Cities of Cloverdale, Cotati, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma, and the Township of Windsor. The system will allow officers of any department to communicate directly with each other and share that information across jurisdictional boundaries.
Visit: http://www.intergraph.com/pubsafety/news.asp
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Online cargo-tracking in country soon
The Indian road transport sector is fast catching up with new age concepts like online tracking and tracing of cargo, online freight quotes and cargo booking.
Gearing up to tap this huge demand potential is VI eTrans, an integrated logistics support service providing company that has drawn up an over Rs 20 crore investment plan to set up a country wide online cargo tracking system for the road sector.
VI eTrans is a 50-50 equity partnership between logistics service provider, Winex Trans Pvt Ltd and Venture Infotek Group. Venture Infotek is a leading payment gateway management company, with over 16,000 swipe stations catering to 12 banks is the credit card business.
While online cargo tracking with the help of global positioning system (GPS) is quite popular internationally, we decided to go for the swipe station model since limiting the cost factor is crucial to success in the Indian Market, Mr. Shoummo K Acharya, MD and CEO, VI eTrans told ET.
The company's business plan includes setting up 124 swipe stations in the Mumbai-Delhi national highways by June-2001. "By the end of 2002, we will have one station in every 50 km stretch, across the entire 16,000 km span of major national highways connecting. Delhi-Mumbai-Kolkata-Chennai-Hyderabad-Bangalore.
Chandigarh Guwahati-Coimbatore-Trivandrum," Mr Acharya Added.
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At a cost of Rs 275 per month, a truck owner will be able to track his cargo live using the net, along with all the other concemed parties like the brokers, transport contractors, consignees and the corporates, be added.
Once the tracking system is in place the company also plans to put up an online freight exchange in India on the lines of popular European exchanges like freecargo and eurocargo. To create awareness among the road transporters' fraternity, the company will initially set up at least 150 cyberhubs at the popular transport hubs, where members will have free access to the facilities.
Industry analysts and logistics gurus also seem quite upbeat about the possibilities. This type of online cargo tracking facility is just beginning in India, and we have already decided to be one of the first customers of VI eTrans, "said Mr Pawan Jain, managing director, Safe Express, a company controlling 45 per cent market share in the express cargo sement.
Source : The Economic Times, 11 may, 2001
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