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GIS News Snippets
2008 Proves a Strong Year for Cityworks
Azteca Systems, Inc. announced that the company experienced another year of strong, stable growth through 2008. Worldwide, forty-five new customers adopted Cityworks to manage assets, infrastructure, and property. In addition, a significant share of existing customers further deployed Cityworks into new areas of their organization.
Cityworks’ powerful, yet easy-to-use management tools provide organizations the ability to manage and maintain assets, track customer issues, and improve workflow. Built on ESRI’s ArcGIS software, Cityworks is the only software in its industry that fully takes advantage of GIS and spatial data to manage assets, giving agencies the ability to track critical data through maps and provide a complete solution for infrastructure needs. Customers continue to express their satisfaction with Cityworks whether they are implementing for the first time, expanding to new departments and divisions, or have been using the GIS-centric application for years.
“From my involvement with Azteca and Cityworks throughout the planning and implementation process, I believe that the only thing better than Azteca’s marketing, project management, and technical coordination is the Cityworks software itself!” commented Bill Hodge, GIS Division Manager for the City of Midland, Texas. “Our first-round implementation within Transportation and Utilities is the beginning of a true enterprise-use of the Cityworks asset management software within the City. I have already started planning an expansion of my GIS capability to match the anticipated increase in Cityworks usage, as other departments start to see the productivity increase that can be realized through this great product.”
GIS meets Google Earth & the Web
Enterprise GIS Publishing Solution for ArcGIS released in a new version. The new HTML ImageMapper NG2 offers the ability to publish your ArcGIS maps to Google Earth AND to the Web. This tool enables you to share geographic information to a worldwide audience with just a view clicks.
New features:
- KML export: The cartography from ArcGIS is exported to Google Earth
- Extrusion: Single objects of a FeatureClass can be exported to Google Earth and can be presented in 3D
- Export with transparency settings
- Expanded batch functionality
GPS2Aperture Pro - 1.0.24
aperture-assistant.com/gps2aperture
GPS2Aperture is the original geotagging application for use with Apple's Aperture and Google Earth.
- Visually geotag your images with the help of Google Earth.
- Copy GPS positions from one image to another.
- View individual image locations in Google Earth.
- Go into 'constant update' mode and watch Google Earth automatically fly from location to location as you navigate from image to image in Aperture.
Purchasing a registration key adds the following features:
- Automatically geotag your images from your GPS log files.
- Retrieve geographic data such as place names and country names.
- View multiple image locations in Google Earth.
- Visual calibration for camera clocks that were set wrongly
MacGPS Pro™ - 8.3
MacGPS Pro is software for communicating with GPS receivers and viewing your position on moving digital maps and nautical charts. These images can be viewed with no GPS receiver connected or used in real-time as a moving-map display of your current position and velocity.
- It allows import of maps from a wide variety of sources in the following formats: TIFF (TIF), JPEG (JPG), GIF, PNG, PICT, BMP, Photoshop (PSD), SGI, TGA, and PDF.
- It imports Nautical Charts in Maptech (BSB v.1, v.2, v.3, v.4, v.5) format.
- It supports NMEA 0183 input from all serial port, Bluetooth, and USGlobalSat USB receivers. Waypoints, Routes, Tracklogs can be graphically generated and edited for use on the Mac, or for transfer to and from many Garmin and Magellan Serial Port and USB Receivers.
- MacGPS Pro exchanges data with Google Maps.
- It imports Waypoints from Geocaching files. It imports and exports waypoints, routes, and tracklogs in the GPX interchange format used by many other GPS programs.
- It shows Elevation Profiles
- It Prints Maps
What's new in this version:
- Increase the maximum number of track points to 250,000.
- Support for the Garmin Forerunner 205, Forerunner 305, Edge 205 and Edge 305 receivers.
- The Show Grid Lines function works with maps drawn using more National Grid map projections (Dutch, Irish, New Zealand, Swedish and Taiwan).
myTracks - 1.4 dev4
myTracks is a Mac OS X 10.5 application for the ambitious hobby photographer. The main idea of myTracks is the handling of GPS tracks and their relations to photos taken during the track. The main features are:
- Import of GPS tracks either directly from a GPS device or from a GPX file
- Tracks are shown on a OpenStreetMap map which is downloaded automatically and can also be used while being offline.
- Photos files can be linked to the tracks. In myTracks you can directly see where you took all your photos.
- Locations can be written to EXIF tags of your image files (geotagging).
- MyTracks is free!