Geoworld : January 2010
Business News
BUSINESS NEWS G E O W O R L D / J A N U A R Y 2 O 1 0 30 Imagery/LIDAR Special Issue BUSINESS NEWS 1Spatial established a dedicated office in Australia to provide local access to technical expertise. 3-GIS added Spatial Innovision Ltd. as a distributor. AAMHatch tasked the GeoEye-1 satellite to capture stereo data over a 270-square-kilometer area in Eastern Australia, and won the Queensland Spatial Excellence Award for Land Development and Planning for Smart Tools for Rapid 3-D Model Creation. Avencia Inc. ranked 96 on the 21st annual Philadelphia 100. Cadcorp signed three new con-tracts with Housing Associations, which are independent not-for-profit organizations offering affordable housing to their local community. Critigen entered the market as a privately held technology consul-tancy for critical infrastructure. East View Cartographic became a commercial distributor for the Land-Scan Global Population Database. ESRI renewed its global GIS enter-prise license agreement with New-mont Mining Corp., was selected by National Grid Gas for its gas-distribution front-office transforma-tion program, and was selected by the Department of Transportation to help report American Recovery and Reinvestment Act spending. ESRI Canada presented Awards of Excellence to FortisBC, the dis-trict of North Vancouver and Oxford County. ESRI Spain will distribute 3-GIS products for the utility and telecom-munications markets in Spain. ESRI (UK) announced that WPC Software joined its Partners and Alliances Program as an authorized ESRI (UK) Business Associate. Geographic Technologies Group won software and services con-tracts from the following: Galt, Calif.; Easton, Md.; Albany and Dougherty County, Ga.; Natchi-toches, La.; Harrison, N.Y.; Benicia, Calif.; Oviedo, Fla.; Titusville, Fla.; and the city of Goose Creek Depart-ment of Public Works. GeoLife Ltd. and PosiMotion LLC submitted an application to the Apple App Store that enables per-sonal turn-by-turn navigation on the iPod touch and iPhone. Geosemble Technologies Inc. won a Phase II development con-tract from DARPA that will enable its current GeoXray data integration software to display a greater range of location-specific information. IGN France International opened a new subsidiary company in Abu Dhabi. InMaps upgraded the GE Small-world PowerOn outage-management system for Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. Intergraph won a contract from NATURE-SDIplus to build a geoportal to harmonize and improve access to national datasets. Leica Geosystems announced that its parent company Hexagon acquired the Spatial Systems divi-sion of Loyola Enterprises Inc. Maponics announced that Monster.com, Zillow.com, Lowe's and CenterPoint Energy chose Maponics postal data. NAVTEQ won a contract from NGA to be the map data and content provider for the SATNAV global commodity dataset, and it's supplying ALK Tech-nologies map data and content for its CoPilot Live GPS navigation products. The company also announced the following: Sistemas de Informacion Geografica and Genesys International became resellers; NAVTEQ Transport is powering the IntelliRoute TND 500 truck-navigation device; AAA selected LocationPoint advertising for AAA Discounts, the first in a series of free apps planned for the iPhone; the Center for Disease Control and Pre-vention selected NAVTEQ map data for its Geospatial Research, Analysis & Services Program; and HTC Corp. is a global sponsor for the 2010 Global LBS Challenge. Nobles Consulting Group acquired a Leica ScanStation C10. OneGIS announced that Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Bermuda Electric Light Company and Appala-chian Electric Cooperative chose its OneView Mobile to automate field-force assignments. ERDAS and Observera partnered to develop an integrated solution based on ERDAS APOLLO technology.