A bill to authorize the program known within the geospatial community as “Imagery for the Nation” is being presented for introduction in Congress, MAPPS announced.
“‘Map it once, use it many times’ is not only a mantra in the geospatial community, but it is technologically feasible through the use of satellite and aerial imagery and GIS. …

Intergraph® has introduced a newly enhanced geospatial solution to enable the efficient production of high-quality map products by U.S. state departments of transportation (DOTs) and military and national mapping agencies around the world.
Organizations rely on Intergraph GeoMedia® Map Publisher for enhanced cartographic capabilities and high levels of map production automation to produce series and ad-hoc …

Safe Software announced that its spatial extract, transform and load (ETL) solution, FME®, can now seamlessly integrate Autodesk® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® data into GIS. These new capabilities will help municipalities more efficiently leverage contractor data submissions to maintain their GIS dataset for meeting their federal asset management requirements.
To fulfill government regulated mandates related to infrastructure …

The new release of ESRI ArcGIS Explorer builds on its intuitive design, improving access to geoprocessing services and expanding available maps in the Basemap Gallery. ArcGIS Explorer is a free, downloadable globe viewer with GIS functionality.
The release features a new Analysis Gallery that allows users to directly connect to and use geoprocessing services. To use …

Topographic Mapping Company announced the availability of LandScape™, Topographic’s new online GIS solution. This application provides users with an affordable resource for advanced GIS, using ESRI® ArcGIS® Server technology without the necessary investment in hardware, software, or even technical staff.
LandScape is hosted on TMC’s servers, and provides a secure login that can be accessed from …

Intergraph announced it has released a new version of its SmartPlant 3D enterprise engineering design software with new capabilities for multiple 3D model referencing, enhanced model data reuse and laser scanning integration capabilities to further increase engineering design quality, productivity and accelerate project schedules.
SmartPlant 3D, available in both Plant and Marine versions, is the 3D …

SuperGeo Technologies entered into a partnership with GeoEye, in order to supply high-resolution images to its customers for a complete geospatial solution. SuperGeo will be reselling GeoEye’s imagery products in Taiwan and bundle the images with SuperGeo’s other products, such as SuperGIS Desktop software, GIS Learning CD and other training materials, to provide a complete …

CARIS announced the release of Spatial Fusion Enterprise (SFE) 5.2 as part of its Ping-to-Chart™ product suite. SFE is Web-enabling technology for geospatial information that aims at leveraging the investment of collecting and maintaining data by making it more visible and accessible to stakeholders. Web-mapping has been around for more than a decade and recent …

GfK GeoMarketing released new maps for 35 Central American countries as part of its still ongoing update of its South American maps. The maps of the Central American countries Map Edition was digitized and refined using the latest cartographic sources. The level of detail corresponds to a conventional paper map scale of at least 1:100,000. …

The Survey of India (SOI) has submitted detailed report of the aerial survey of Vadodara, Gujarat to prepare the base map of the city. The report will be used to prepare a detailed map with minute details, including underground installations. According to officials at Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s (VMC) Town Planning and Information Technology Department (VMC …