Intergraph has been involved in supporting response and recovery efforts in New York City, in many ways.
New York City Transit: With subway tunnels destroyed, roads closed, and transit routes disrupted in the city, Intergraph is helping the Transit Dept. integrate data from several city departments into a single map. This is helping management make better informed decisions on how to restore and rebuild transportation routes in Manhattan.
New Jersey Transit: This agency is using Intergraph's GIS software to develop new maps for rail and bus transportation into and out of NYC, needed since the disaster occurred.
Department of Defense: Intergraph has a comprehensive breadth of map production and cartography solutions that provide capabilities for digital and paper map production services and
technology for military intelligence and operations efforts. These are areas in which Intergraph has played a leading role, in the U.S. and in many military agencies in Europe and around the world.
Consolidated Edison of New York uses a facility management system driven by Intergraph's FRAMME software to maintain the definitive map for the electric, gas, and steam service in Manhattan and most of the surrounding boroughs. The maps are not limited to display of graphic elements; they also provide attribute information about transformers, power line capacities, installation details, and more.
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Z/I Imaging introduces new Orthophoto Management System
Z/I Imaging Corporation has announced at the annual Intergeo Conference in Cologne, Germany the release of its new innovative orthophoto management and distribution module of its TerraShare product family. TerraShare Ortho Manager provides the user the ability to display a single image backdrop that covers the entire project area from a desktop GIS or CAD application, such as ArcView 3.2. Behind the scenes, TerraShare Ortho Manager handles everything for the user, seamlessly serving up thousands of orthos in the current map projection. TerraShare Ortho Manager combines the power of the TerraShare client/server image management and distribution system with a high performance imaging engine to serve up thousands of georeferenced images as a single seamless raster backdrop. TerraShare was designed to meet the growing demand for tools to manage large quantities of imagery data in a production or exploitation environment. TerraShare Ortho Manager extends this storage and distribution system to the GIS and CAD desktop software user.
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Clients select 3Di's mapping services to provide integrated digital mapping solutions
3Di, an international geo-spatial services provider, today announced that several new clients have contracted to receive 3Di's mapping services. These services include 3Di's traditional mapping services, as well as its state-of-the-art, advanced LIDAR system and GIS services. The clients include City of Manassas, Virginia for Planimetric and topographic mapping, including digital color orthophotography, for the entire city, Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) for Photogrammetric mapping services for 28 miles of Interstate and State roads, City of Healdsburg, California for municipal photogrammetric mapping, orthophotography, and ground utility collection project using Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies and Lincoln City, Oregon for a municipal mapping project for the rapidly growing coastal resort along the Oregon coast. The mapping will support the development of a citywide geographic information system and includes topography, buildings, roads, vegetation, utilities, and hydrology.
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Ordnance Survey invests in Laser-Scan User Group
Geospatial experts Laser-Scan are pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Tatham as the new Chairman of the User Group Committee. Mr Tatham, IT Project Manager at Ordnance Survey (OS), is taking the helm following voting at the committee's AGM which was held during the annual Laser-Scan User Group Conference. The committee also welcomes a new member: Ed Shutt from the UK Hydrographic Office. Laser-Scan's work with OS has most recently been in re-engineering its digital data in support of the development of OS MasterMap™ (developed from the Digital National Framework). OS has also selected a Laser-Scan product as its Corporate Editor.
The new appointments to the User Group coincide with Laser-Scan's improved customer-focussed approach under the leadership of Managing Director Dr. Michael Sanderson
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Rand McNally launches new commercial transportation route management software
Professional drivers need a route they can rely on to take them quickly, safely, and profitably to their destination. RouteTools (TM) software, created by Rand McNally, the makers of widely used commercial routing software such as MileMaker(R) and IntelliRoute(R), delivers a feature-rich solution geared toward the over-the-road professional driver. With the introduction of RouteTools(TM) software, Rand McNally -TDM, Inc., (TDM), a subsidiary of Rand McNally, now services all segments of the commercial transportation industry from the driver to the largest and most sophisticated fleets.
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Literacy bane for spread of e-governance
Low literacy levels and dominance of English in the software sector are the major obstacles in the spread of e-governance to the Indian masses, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh said here on Friday.
Speaking at an e-governance-summit organised by CII, he said that the state's achievements in the promotion of e-education includes the establishment of 800 'head start centres' which would impart primary computer education. 10,000 teachers have been trained in affiliation with IBM and subsidised institutions for IT education have been set up.
In order to address the language problems and carry the benefits of IT to the common man the government has come up with indigenously developed software packages in Hindi.
Source: The Pioneer
Beijing Strives to Be Modern Information Center
China's national capital Beijing is striving to become one of the leading information centers in the world by 2005, and a just-published government plan has set concrete goals.
Under a five-year plan on information technology development, Beijing will set up a wide-band network linking all urban districts and 90 percent of suburban areas in five years.
Over 90 percent of the families in Beijing will be connected with the cable TV networks, and there will be one computer for every two households.
The number of fixed telephone subscribers will climb to 7.8 million and that of mobile phones will top 8.6 million. The number of Internet users will reach six million.
Over 90 percent of the local enterprises will be equipped with interactive office systems, e-commerce and other modern information facilities.
The city will ensure some major breakthroughs in independent development of key information technologies, software, integrated circuits and optical communication. In the five years to 2005, the added value of the information sector will grow at an annual rate of more than 30 percent.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
