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With more than 60 successful migrations from FRAMME to G/Technology™, the solution from Intergraph Corp. [Now Hexagon] that integrates geofacilities management with operational support and service delivery applications, leading utilities and communications organizations worldwide are driving efficiency by leveraging industry best practices. G/Technology is built as an open, standards–compliant, spatially–enabled data management system based on Intergraph’s expertise in the electric, gas, pipeline, water, and communications industries. Among the organizations realizing the benefits of G/Technology are:
Central Vermont Public Service — CVPS, the largest electric company in Vermont, serves more than 158,000 customers in 152 communities. HNG Midt–Nord — HNG distributes natural gas in the Greater Copenhagen (Denmark) area. In Central and North Jutland, natural gas is distributed by Naturgas Midt–Nord, a municipally owned partnership.
KPN — KPN provides telephone, Internet and television services to personal customers in The Netherlands. It provides a range of services, from voice, Internet and data services to full–managed outsourced ICT solutions, in The Netherlands and internationally, as well as mobile services in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and western Europe. KPN serves 6 million wireline voice subscribers, 8.7 million mobile customers, 2.3 million Internet customers and 0.3 million TV–customers in the Netherlands as well as 15.6 million mobile customers in Germany and Belgium.
first published week of: 03/14/2022While FRAMME has served the company well over the past 10 years, the time had come to look for its replacement,
said Julie Congdon, project coordinator, senior application system analyst and software developer. The team investigated products offered by two of the industry’s leaders in geographic information systems. Fact–finding workshops were conducted with each company. The team then evaluated scope of work/
contracts and contacted references to compare the two companies.
As a result of this due diligence, Intergraph emerged as the clear choice to continue as our GIS provider,
Congdon said.
Now back to 2022
Permanent URL Remember When? A "Harlow Report" From September 8, 2013
Aerial ‘Hexacopter’ Gives Geography Research A Lift
by Press
Known as a “hexacopter,” after its hexagonal shape, this unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the size of a model airplane and was adapted by graduate student Peter Christian to be used for aerial surveys.
“Using UAVs opens up new areas of research that were previously too expensive to survey from the air or too difficult or dangerous to study from the ground,”said Christian, a student in the Geographic Information Science master's program.
He noticed that researchers are often constrained by what data they can feasibly collect. So for his master's thesis, he used the hexacopter to develop an aerial instrumentation platform, providing an affordable way of capturing high resolution images of the earth's surface, including landslides, vegetation patterns, wetlands and marine habitats.
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first published week of: 07/25/2022
A first in GPS software solutions for the outdoor recreation market, Fugawi Touratel is a Web 2.0-based cell phone navigation software product that delivers high-resolution US Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps, air photos and urban photos to a wide variety of cell phone models within the USA. In addition, users receive a host of other useful third-party location based applications, such as detailed streets maps of the USA, all for one low monthly fee.
Fugawi Touratel is currently compatible with many models from Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo and LG, on the Sprint, Alltel and Boost networks with more networks and cell phone models to be added shortly. Because Fugawi Touratel utilizes the cellular network-derived “Assisted GPS” location, the supported phones do not require a specific-use internal or Bluetooth connected GPS. Also, due to its unique Web 2.0 architecture, the user does not need to download and install client software – the entire Fugawi Touratel application works through the internet connection. Users will benefit from added map content and ongoing product development instantaneously, without the need to download updates or apply patches.
first published week of: 05/23/2022
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first published week of: 02/28/2022
Thursday's ruling by the state's 5th District Court of Appeal reverses the conviction of a Fresno man who was ticketed in January 2012 for looking at a map on his iPhone 4 while stuck in traffic. That driver, Steven Spriggs, challenged his $165 fine with the appellate court.
In their explanation, the judges say that the law prohibiting people from talking on their cellphones without a hands-free device doesn't apply to looking at maps on cellphones.
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Geo Owl (Wilmington, NC) recently was awarded a $3.6 Million prime contract to support Multi-Discipline Intelligence training for the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC).
Geo Owl will supply training and curriculum development in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), All-Source, Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Counterintelligence (CI) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) for the Marine Raider Training Center (MRTC). Geo Owl has supplied similar training for the past eight years to other elements within the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). According to Geo Owl’s CEO Nicholas Smith:
Our whole team is excited to deepen our support to MARSOC. They will rely on our awesome team of intelligence professionals who know this stuff cold. We bring our unique innovation processes and niche experiences supplying 24/7 SOF (Special Operations Forces) operational intelligence support into the schoolhouse.
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first published week of: 04/18/2022