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Published in 2008
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Updated Street Data, Postal Boundaries, and Landmarks for ESRI RouteMAP IMS 4.0 Now Available for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico
Street datasets have been updated in RouteMAP IMS 4.0, ESRI’s easy-to-deploy, out-of-the-box solution that makes easy and affordable mapping, routing, and driving directions part of any Web site. The latest release of this data pack, Tele Atlas’ Dynamap Transportation, includes current street data, postal boundaries, landmarks, and water features for the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
“Combining the most accurate street and postal data with RouteMAP IMS gives our customers all the tools they need to add effective online mapping and driving directions to their company Web sites,” says Jay Hoffman, RouteMAP IMS product manager, ESRI.
RouteMAP IMS enables clients, like Xionetic Technologies in Bozeman, Montana, to generate more business activity by allowing prospective customers visiting their Web sites to create maps and calculate driving directions to their various business locations. Xionetic further incorporates RouteMAP IMS into its own product, Locator Web, an Internet-hosted solution that maps store or dealer locations and provides driving direction functionality on corporate Web sites including Cinnabon, The North Face, Sanrio, CAT Scale, and Asics. “It is very likely a customer will visit a physical location to buy a product or service if they have used a store locator," says Sarah Savage, director of customer service for Xionetic Technologies. "If they use maps and driving directions from software like RouteMAP IMS, it is even more likely.”
Besides comprehensive data, RouteMAP IMS includes map templates that make it easy to create maps with symbols for unique company locations. Clients can also create customized maps with ActiveX, Java, and .NET application programming interfaces that are provided with the solution. This gives users full control over the content of their maps and how they are displayed. Being able to use this solution means companies have powerful, advertisement-free mapping for their customers.
first published week of: 05/26/2008
USB Safely Remove Wins A “100 BEST PRODUCTS OF 2008 AWARD” From PC World!
“USB Safely Remove” utility, created by the SafelyRemove.com company, was honored by PC World magazine with a “100 Best Products of 2008 Award.” The TOP 100 products were selected by editors of the famous magazine among huge list of hardware, software and Web products for their exemplary design and usability, features, performance, and innovation. USB Safely Remove won 69th place at the rating; full TOP 100 products list is available at PC World’s web-site.
USB Safely Remove is a small yet powerful utility that extends your abilities to manage USB devices, as well as making everyday tasks such as safe removal easy and convenient. The program makes working with USB devices efficient and saves data for those who often use such hot-plug devices as flash-drives, USB or SATA hard-drives, card readers etc.
USB Safely Remove 4.0 runs under Windows XP, 2003 and Vista. It is normally priced at $20 (US) for a personal lifetime license and $150 for a commercial site license. Licensed users get upgrades for the duration of the license, free technical support by email, and unlimited functionality without registration pop-ups. More information on the product, as well as a free 30-day trial copy, is available at safelyremove.com.
first published week of: 06/16/2008
WhiteStar Introduces ArcGIS Server Line of Enterprise Mapping Product
WhiteStar Corp. has introduced a new line of Enterprise ArcGIS Server databases developed from the popular WhiteStar “Unlimited Access” mapping products. Each of the new Enterprise products contains a seamless nationwide database of accurate and up-to-date map data that can be accessed via the web on ESRI ArcGIS Server for applications in the oil & gas, pipeline, natural resource, utility and insurance industries.
The four new WhiteStar Enterprise ArcGIS Server products are –
- Enterprise Grid based on the U.S. Public Land Survey data in the WhiteStar Unlimited Grid Access (UGA) product,
- Enterprise Culture containing U.S. Census Bureau TIGER file data from the WhiteStar Unlimited Base Map Access (UBA) product,
- Enterprise Wells including all U.S. oil and gas well locations from the WhiteStar Unlimited Well Access (UWA) product,
- Enterprise DRG (Digital Raster Graphs) created from USGS 7.5-minute quads.
Designed originally for use by the oil and gas and pipeline industries, the WhiteStar Enterprise ArcGIS Server products are ideal for organizations with extensive lease holdings or infrastructure assets that are spread over large geographic areas or cross multiple political boundaries. ArcGIS Server makes the data accessible to an unlimited number of users from anywhere there is web access.
first published week of: 03/24/2008
WhiteStar to Demonstrate Mapping Solutions for Wind Energy Industry at WindPower 2008 Conference
WhiteStar Corp., a supplier of digital cartographic data and services to the energy industry, will demonstrate its custom digital elevation models (DEMs) and “Unlimited Access” mapping products as well as its PolyBuilder™ web service next week at the WindPower 2008 Conference in Houston.
WindPower 2008 is the largest conference and exhibition of the wind energy industry in North America (www.awea.org). The show is expected to draw more than 9,000 attendees and 750 exhibitors to Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center on June 1-4, 2008. WhiteStar will be exhibiting in booth #3444.
“The WhiteStar Unlimited Grid Access (UGA), custom DEMs and PolyBuilder service are the mapping products we provide most often to wind energy companies,” said WhiteStar CEO Robert White. “Wind energy companies integrate these mapping products and solutions to determine where the best leases are to build wind turbines and other energy generation facilities.”
first published week of: 06/02/2008
WhiteStar to Introduce PolyBuilder™ Service at ESRI Petroleum Users Group Conference
WhiteStar Corp., a supplier of digital cartographic data products and services to the oil and gas industry, will officially unveil the WhiteStar PolyBuilder™ application next week at the ESRI Petroleum Users Group (PUG) Conference in Houston, Texas. The PUG conference is being held Feb. 25-27, 2008, at the Houston Marriott Westchase.
The new WhiteStar PolyBuilder™ service is a web-based application that allows a user to easily calculate the geographic points representing a land polygon. By entering the legal land description of a region or property within the U.S. Public Land Survey System, the PolyBuilder user receives a list of geographic points in either latitude/longitude or state plane coordinates that define the boundaries of the land area.
“We created PolyBuilder to allow our clients in the petroleum industry to build exploration maps as quickly and inexpensively as possible,” said WhiteStar President Robert White. “With just a few clicks of the mouse, PolyBuilder can calculate the boundaries that define an oil or gas lease – all in a matter of minutes, compared to the days that manual methods might require.”
PolyBuilder users can specify multiple regions for the same description, and the web-based application will calculate and return the combined results with as few distinct polygons as possible, for optimal simplicity. Any application with internet access and proper entitlement can use the service.
first published week of: 02/18/2008
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