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eSpatial Appoints SaaS Veteran to Support Global Launch of new SaaS GIS Platform

www.espatial.com

eSpatial, a leading GIS (Geographic Information System), Location Information Solutions and online mapping company today announced the appointment of Mr. Colm Mulcahy as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, with key responsibility for its fast growing SaaS GIS business. Mulcahy brings more than 20 years experience in sales and marketing leadership and executive management at firms focused on the delivery of business solutions as “software as a service” (SaaS). In 2005 he established Saaspoint, which focused on the deployment of cloud computing technologies which he grew into Europe’s leading premier consulting partner for Salesforce.com. Prior to establishing Saaspoint, he held a number Senior Management positions with Mitsubishi Electric, and was responsible for the introduction of a Pan-European CRM programme for Mitsubishi Electric Mobile Phones.

One of Colm’s key responsibilities will be to take the lead on eSpatial’s aggressive expansion in delivering pioneering SaaS GIS solutions. He has also been charged with identifying and addressing new markets for SaaS through a global network of channel partners. Colm will drive sales for eSpatial’s iSMART® SaaS GIS Platform. iSMART SaaS GIS provides full function GIS over the web: customers get all the functionality they expect from a traditional desktop GIS software solution except with the added benefits of a pure web interface and the convenience of SaaS. All functions, including advanced editing, are provided in a browser. iSMART enables users to create, view, edit, analyze and share geographic information and business data over the web. It also includes APIs for developers to extend or embed GIS capabilities in business applications.

On joining eSpatial Mr. Mulcahy commented, “I’m excited to join eSpatial and I look forward to driving the company’s Software as a Service strategy. Full function GIS in the cloud will make GIS technology available to the general business community, assisting companies in the development of sales and marketing strategies. eSpatial is leading the way with advanced capabilities, delivering feature rich solutions that are 100% web based, easy to use, and are priced right. CIOs and CFOs can now deploy GIS technology rapidly at a reduced cost.”

CARIS MEASURES IMPROVED PERFORMANCE WITH SPATIAL FUSION ENTERPRISE 5.3

www.caris.com

CARIS released Spatial Fusion Enterprise (SFE) version 5.3 featuring the new Web Map Tile Service (WMTS). SFE allows an organization to deliver its geospatial information to the Web using open standards and the latest technology.

WMTS is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) standard that improves the performance and scalability of Web-mapping by using “tiles” of pre-rendered data. This offers performance benefits over the popularOGC® Web Map Service (WMS) standard. By requesting map images from the server combined with the ability to store the images for future use, performance gains through WMTS are significant.

CARIS has taken this one step further allowing multiple layers from any number of data sources grouped into a single layer prior to being drawn. The benefit of this approach is that the client application now only needs to request one draw for each tile, instead of one draw for each layer within a tile.

MacENC - 8.0 – GPS charting & navigation.

www.macenc.com

MacENC™ is the professional solution for the mariner that wants to take the Mac aboard for real-time display of position on the vector format S-57/S-63 ENCs (Electronic Navigational Charts), Navionics Charts from X-Traverse and raster format BSB and Softcharts. Plug your GPS into your Mac and watch as your vessel moves along in real-time, plotting a track behind and logging a historic position on a seamless quilted digital chart. MacENC™ is right at home for planning trips and charting new destinations. A GPS is not required to work with charts.

MacENC™ is compatible with S-57/S-63 ENC vector charts, NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Inland Electronic Navigation Charts

OkMap - 8.8.2 – GPS mapping application.

okmap.org/

OkMap is a free software for many outdoor activities: Trekking Off road Mountain bike Sailing Hunting and fishing Finding mushrooms Soft air Geocaching. OkMap help you to: Calibrate vectorial and raster maps with different types of cartographic projections. Create own digital maps drawing point, multipoint, polyline and polygon vector. Display simultaneously raster maps and vectorial data. Import digital vectorial data based on different types of cartographic projections. Use calibrated maps and vectorial data as background for navigation. Create and represent on maps (raster and vectorial): waypoints, routes and tracks. Use digital terrain models to display the elevation of any point on the map Load and save waypoints, routes and tracks in GPX format.

Upload and download waypoints, routes and tracks to and from a GPS device. Navigate in real time via a GPS device through NMEA protocol Display Google Earth and Maps.

Supported formats:

Images: ecw, bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif and many others
Maps: gfw, jgw, pgw, tfw, bpw (Drg maps); ecw (Earth Resource Mapping); map (OziExplorer); gmi (GpsTuner)
Vectorial data: shp, dbf (Esri shape file); dcw (Digital Chart of World)
GPS data: gpx (GPS Exchange Format); kml (Keyhole Markup Language); wpt, plt, rte (OziExplorer); loc (Geocaching) and many others formats thanks to the software GpsBabel
DEM data (digital earth model): hgt (SRTM-1 e SRTM-3)

PCI Geomatics Releases GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS, version 2.0 Software

www.pcigeomatics.com

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems is pleased to announce the release of GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS®, version 2.0. Offering accurate and highly automated tools for correcting raw satellite imagery, GeoImaging Tools is revolutionizing the integration of remotely sensed imagery into GIS workflows.

The release of GeoImaging Tools version 2.0 coincides and integrates directly within ESRI’s recently released ArcGIS version 10 software. With the GeoImaging Tools Image Correction Module, ArcGIS users will benefit from rigorous, automated multi-sensor support and be able to correct raw imagery using sensor model information, optionally with automatic GCPs and tie points from reference data such as chip databases, reference mosaics, or vectors. Higher levels of registration accuracy are achievable via block bundle adjustments. Users also have the option of saving the correction parameters and create mosaic datasets for direct use with ArcGIS for on-the-fly processing reducing data duplication.

With a sharp increase in data volume and collection platforms in recent years, accurate registration of large complex datasets remains a challenge. PCI’s GeoImaging Tools provides unparalleled automation for correcting imagery, making it possible for GIS users to achieve critical tasks such as feature extraction and change detection.

“With access to many unsupported sensors and data formats, along with the ability to create more spatially accurate imagery directly within ArcGIS, GeoImaging Tools is opening up new doors for GIS users,” said Terry Moloney, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, PCI Geomatics. “GeoImaging Tools automates the image correction process so that GIS users can spend more time extracting relevant information from imagery, recognized as an integral part of geospatial analysis.”

GeoImaging Tools are designed specifically for ArcGIS users who use imagery within their workflows. GeoImaging Tools for ArcGIS version 2.0 is PCI’s second GeoImaging Tools product release, and features direct integration within the ArcGIS 10 Arc Toolbox. Upcoming product releases include the Radar Module, which will provide the best tools for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing and analysis, including a comprehensive Polarimetric toolkit and support for all commercially available SAR sensors.

Pocket Places - 1.0
Tag places you visit using the inbuilt GPS, take a photo and e-mail them to your family and friends.

www.clickwisesoftware.com

Pocket Places, the perfect addition to your iPhone. Whether you’re on holidays or just exploring your local town, Pocket Places enables you to record all your favourite places you have visited.

With Pocket Places you can; Tag your current location using the inbuilt GPS; Take a photo with the inbuilt camera or choose an existing photo and save it against the place; See the location of the place visited on a map, and send a pre-formatted e-mail to your family and friends with details of the place, including a Google Maps link to the location of the place and the photo attached. Best of all Pocket Places is great while you’re overseas on holidays without data roaming. Tag your favourite places, take photos and then when you’re back at your hotel use Wi-Fi to email the places you have visited to your family and friends.

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