ESRI announces the fourth installment of its popular Digital City seminar series. Beginning a 20-city tour in November, Digital City¾E-Government Edition will focus on the importance of integrating geographic information system (GIS) technology into e-government and present examples of best practices in Internet applications, data warehousing and exchange, and field force automation. ESRI, the GIS software leader, has partnered with nationally recognized leaders¾Compaq Computer Corporation; Tele Atlas North America, Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; and American City and County magazine¾to bring new and existing GIS users a broader perspective about how e-government applications can deliver more information faster and improve customer service in a seamless coordinated manner. Managers and technology professionals at state, county, city, township, and regional agencies as well as educators and consultants in the private sector are encouraged to attend the seminars.
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www.esri.com/localgov
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Parthus Launches and Licenses NavStream 3000 GPS Platform
Parthus Technologies plc, a leading developer of platform-level intellectual property (IP), today announced the launch of NavStream 3000, a GPS (Global Positioning System) silicon IP and software platform that delivers greatly enhanced indoor and outdoor positioning accuracy across a range of devices including mobile phones and automobiles. The platform has already been licensed to a number of leading industry players. NavStream 3000 is the latest and most advanced GPS platform from Parthus incorporating a configurable GPS baseband acceleration engine, enhanced radio front end and software suites targeting both handset and automotive market requirements. While GPS technology offers unrivalled location accuracy, indoor environments have traditionally degraded accuracy performance. The significant breakthrough with Parthus' NavStream 3000 is the rapid ability to determine location in practically any environment. Parthus have undertaken extensive trials to obtain position fixes in indoor environments including homes, office and industrial buildings in under 3.5 seconds.
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www.parthus.com
OGC and IIR Host `GIS In Telecoms 2001' Seminar
The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) (Wayland, MA) and IIR Conferences-UK (UK) announce their joint sponsorship of "GIS In Telecoms 2001," a multi-speaker seminar to be held 12-15 November 2001 at the Intercontinental Geneva hotel in Geneva, Switzerland. This IIR conference is the best place to hear from and talk with high-level technologists and managers from telecommunications operators and GIS companies who understand the unique spatial data needs of the telecoms market. It is the premier conference providing practical insight into advanced management strategies for spatial data that will result in a more economical, more productive, and more profitable telecoms enterprise. GIS In Telecoms will also provide GIS software developers and data providers with a singular opportunity to learn about the specific needs of the telecoms market so they can make the right choices when adapting their product and service portfolios.
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www.opengis.org &
http://www.iir-conferences.com/gis.
Indicast selects Televigation's location-based services
Indicast, a leading provider of voice-enabled services to the telecommunications industry, has selected Televigation, the leader in wireless motion-based technology, to provide voice-enabled location-based services to customers through Indicast's private-label voice portal solutions. Services provided by Televigation include driving directions and business finder. Under the agreement with Indicast, Televigation will provide turnkey voice applications that utilize both Televigation's navigation engine for voice activated driving directions, and Televigation's spatial search engine for conveniently locating restaurants, businesses or any point of interest near the user. The service can also be customized for different geographic regions and customer bases and in multiple languages. Additionally, Indicast offers audio E-mail, voice activated dialing and voice controlled voice mail applications.
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www.televigation.com &
www.indicast.com
Laser-Scan set to increase partner activity
Following the recent recruitment of software engineers Laser-Scan is further strengthening its business development team. Steven Ramage has joined Laser-Scan to manage Third Party Channel Development. He'll be working specifically on technical and marketing strategies associated with Laser-Scan's Java-based environment and Oracle 9i developments. Steven gained his "location experience" initially at Oceonics working with marine survey and satellite positioning for the offshore oil and gas industry. He joins Laser-Scan from Navigation Technologies where he worked as European Market Development Manager.
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www.laser-scan.com
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Japan’s Maplet WebGIS bundles Image Web Server
COBOPLAN, one of Japan's leading home-grown GIS manufacturers, have bundled Earth Resource Mapping's highly popular image serving application - Image Web Server and adopted the compression file format Enhanced Compression Wavelet (ECW) with their software application - Maplet WebGIS.
Maplet features real-time roaming and zooming of vectors across networks. The combination of these superior applications, Image Web Server and Maplet WebGIS, allows users to work with huge images and infinite vector databases from a remote location.
Maplet WebGIS is a native Japanese software application specifically tailored to Japanese GIS problems. Several large organisations have incorporated Maplet including: Osaka Gas, Hokkaido Development Board and Japan Space Imaging.
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www.ermapper.com
East China Province Builds Emergency Environmental Monitoring System
NANCHANG, October 9 -- East China's Jiangxi province has begun to build an emergency monitoring and rapid reaction center for environmental disasters.
Officials from Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection Bureau say the computerized system will offer assistance to relevant departments and personnel to enable them to control damage in the shortest possible time.
Xiong Yu, chief engineer of Jiangxi Provincial Monitoring Center, said Jiangxi has been hit by several major environmental disasters in the last few years including the leakage of chlorine in 1994 at Ganjiang Chemical Plant.
In 1997, a major leakage of chlorine from Jiujiang Chemical Plant caused air and soil pollution, he said.
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Xinhua News Agency
