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Magellan upgrades GPS for accuracy better than three meters
MAP 330M is the ultimate navigation tool on the water or on land. The PC-compatible MAP 330M offers mariners a 7 MB downloadable memory,  advanced features and a 9-MB, built-in database with thousands of navaids, coastline details and road maps, all in a single handheld device that floats. For a higher level of versatility and navigation power, the MAP 330M is a must-have for anglers and boaters alike. The MAP 330M built-in database contains waterways, inland lakes, fixed navaids, buoys, lighthouses, marinas, channel markers and obstructions such as wrecks and rocks. It also provides maps of worldwide political boundaries, major U.S. city streets, highways, railways and inland points of interest, such as national parks and airports. An advanced search function quickly locates database content.
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JShapeXi - interface between ArcView and Oracle Spatial
ESRI Partner GDV presents JshapeXi, a bidirectional interface for transferring shape files to Oracle Spatial. In opposite to file-oriented management of geodata, spatial data in database-management-systems has considerable advantages (user-access, user-rights, managing different versions, etc). JShapeXi reads and writes ESRI-shapefiles including all attribute-data to and from Oracle Spatial, using a documented format (Mdsys.sdo_geometry). With the JShapeXi-extension for ArcVIEW you can, after logging in to the Oracle-database, load shapefiles in a view for visualization or editing and rewrite the shapefile directly to Oracle Spatial. The program features intuitive and easy-to-use dialog boxes. JShapeXi is a native java-application and platform independent so it can be used under Unix as well.
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SnapTrack announces wireless location server agreement with Korean NEOLINK Technologies
SnapTrack, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of QUALCOMM Incorporated and pioneer of Hybrid Wireless Assisted GPS(TM) location systems, has announced an agreement with Seoul-based NEOLINK Technologies, Inc., an innovative developer of wireless Internet infrastructure based on broadband wireless technology. The agreement will provide Korean carriers with high-performance SnapTrack SnapSmart(TM)-enabled wireless location platforms in support of gpsOne(TM)-enabled position location products and services based on the QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies (QCT) Mobile Station Modem (MSM(TM)) series of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) integrated circuits and system software. NEOLINK chose the SnapTrack solution because it provides superior performance in terms of implementation flexibility, accuracy, sensitivity and in-building coverage, and can rapidly determine a user's location.
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Syncline chosen to provide mapping software for OGC military pilot program
Syncline, Inc., today announced that it has been selected by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) to help develop and test open mapping infrastructures for military applications. The goal of the project, which is sponsored by the U.S. Army Engineering and Development Center and In-Q-Tel, is to test new interface specifications that enable organizations and nations to easily share geospatial information in times of conflict. As part of the OGC program, Syncline is building specifications for software products that use desktop computers to both search for data and render three-dimensional maps. The pilot program is designed to test common Web-based mapping interfaces for military use, so that cooperating nations or organizations can quickly integrate and access geographic information systems (GIS) data during military action. Syncline will extend existing OGC interface specifications to enable both intelligent database queries, and three-dimensional, photo-realistic terrain views over the Internet, giving users a far greater ability visualize and understand critical GIS information.
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Apic acquires the geomatic activities of the NMG group
Apic, an EADS group company has announced that it has acquired Data Management Solutions SA (DMS), the geomatic division of the NMG group. In accordance with its strategy of reinforcing its position in the telecommunications market, Network Management Group SA - NMG - has decided to dispose of its software development, integration and service activities in the GIS sector. NMG's involvement with GIS was through its subsidiary DMS, which has now been acquired by Apic. The acquisition includes the software products GeoCity and MSDR, current service and maintenance contracts, as well as staff members. With this acquisition, Apic has established its position as a leader in the provision of GIS solutions for major French towns.
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Clean-up campaign at Everest
LHASA, May 21 -- A team of 44 volunteers from China, Japan, Korea, Nepal and Georgia have climbed 6,500 meters up Mount Everest for a joint clean-up drive. The team, organized by a well-known Japanese mountaineer, will collect garbage cast off by mountaineers from various countries and corpses of victims at an elevation ranging from 6,500 meters to 8,000 meters. At the Everest base-camp, 18 teams from a dozen countries are making final preparations. Many of them are familiar with members of the clean-up team.
"The team made a clean-up at Everest last year. The current move is much bigger than the previous one. It began in mid-April and will last until the end of May. An estimated two or three tons of garbage will be collected," said Zintian, the team's Tibetan female interpreter who is staying at the base-camp. A liaison officer at the base-camp surnamed Guo said "The team has discovered a great deal of cast-off equipment and asked us to provide a tent for storing the garbage they have collected."
Hundreds of mountain climbers have come to Everest each year since the world's highest peak was opened to foreigners in 1980. However, many have left their oxygen tanks, mountaineering equipment and daily garbage on the peak. Generally, the Everest Administrative Department is responsible for garbage below the elevation of 6,500 meters, while professional mountaineers take charge of garbage above 6,500 meters. A garbage van goes to the base-camp once a week to collect garbage, which is then shipped to Tingre County for disposal.
Cisco teams up with Orissa government.
Cisco Systems has been active in India since 1995. A worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, it has offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Calcutta.
"Our program will help create highly employable and globally skilled manpower required with the expanding applications of Internet in Orissa," said A K Pujari the chief of Orissa Computer Application Centre. OCAC was set up in 1985 as a nodal agency to promote computer related activities. The center will be designated a regional networking academy and receive networking equipment, comprehensive training, the academy curriculum and technical support from Cisco Systems. The Cisco program teaches students how to design, build and maintain computer networks. Hyderabad has a Cisco networking academy where faculty members would be send for training "Initially we will train 90 students. We hope the number will grow to 900 within six months," said Pujari.
Pentasoft tie-up in China
Pentasoft Technologies Ltd has signed a joint venture agreement with Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd, China, to promote software education and development, multimedia production and broadband technology in China. SIHL will give Pentasoft immediate access to the lucrative IT education sector and the evolving Chinese software development market. In return, Pentasoft will help SIHL in jointly promoting software development, a company release said. Mr V. Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Pentasoft, said that the joint venture was part of the planned expansion of operations in Far East. Pentasoft had also formed a joint venture company in association with SIHL in Hong Kong and China, the release added.
Source: Sifi
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