Trimble Acquires LET Systems to Expand its Utilities
Solutions for Smart Grid Outage and Incident Management
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 5, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today it has acquired privately-held LET Systems based in Cork, Ireland. LET Systems is an internationally recognized leader in incident and outage management system (OMS) solutions for utilities. The acquisition is [...]

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Census Bureau Launches Online Mapping Tool Showing 2000 Census Participation Rates to Help Communities Prepare for 2010 Census
With mail-out of the 2010 Census forms less than one month away, the Census Bureau today unveiled a new online mapping tool that allows communities nationwide to prepare for the 2010 Census by seeing how well they did [...]

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Trimble Introduces DPS Mobile Data Transfer for Digital Pen Solutions
Trimble DPS Mobile Software for the BlackBerry Smartphone Streamlines the Transfer of Field Report Data to the Office;
Accelerates Projects for the Construction Contractor
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 26, 2010 — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced remote data transfer capabilities for its family of Trimble Digital Pen Solutions. Designed specifically [...]

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SYCODE Releases ESRI Shape File Import Plug-ins for AutoCAD, Bricscad, IntelliCAD and Rhinoceros
Panaji, GOA – 28th October, 2009 – SYCODE has released ESRI Shape file import plug-ins for AutoCAD, Bricscad, IntelliCAD and Rhinoceros. The plug-ins will allow these CAD systems to read two dimensional geometric data from ESRI shape files.  “Recently we noticed an increase in requests [...]

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Topcons new fully Integrated 3D Laser and Digital Imagery Mobile Mapping System for GIS data collection, the IP-S2.
IP-S2 features:

High definition mobile 3D mapping
Dual frequency GNSS tracking
High Accuracy 6-Axis IMU Integration
Odometry inputs from on-board vehicle CAN bus or wheel encoders
Supports multiple laser scanner models for operator and application flexibility

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Eric Colburn on August 21st, 2009

TerraGo Announces General Availability of TerraGo Composer
New release for creating GeoPDF-based map books adds dynamic update and editing capability
ATLANTA, GA – August 20, 2009 – TerraGo Technologies®, a leading provider of geospatial collaboration software solutions, announced today the general availability of its TerraGo Composer® version 5 software. The new solution gives organizations the power to [...]

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Eric Colburn on July 28th, 2009

Ten Geospatial Organizations Endorse IFTN
The leadership of ten geospatial organizations has jointly agreed to support a simple resolution in support of a national digital imagery program:
Be it resolved that the undersigned geospatial organizations support the funding and establishment of an operational program consistent with Imagery for the Nation (IFTN) within the US government with the [...]

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Eric Colburn on July 8th, 2009

MAGIC 2010 Symposium
The 2010 Symposium will be held at the Westin Crown Center April 18 – 22, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri.
GIS covers such a broad range of subjects, applications and types of people that use it, that developing a conference program that meets everyone’s needs is a challenging task. Even more challenging is an [...]

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China vows to foster the development of the geographic information industry and boost the “building of Digital China” through the National Geographic Information Summit, which opens in Beijing today, according to Xu Deming, vice-Minister of Land and Resources.
Surveying and mapping has become a fundamental safeguard for the development of the economy, Wang Chunfeng, vice-chief of [...]

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Eric Colburn on July 1st, 2009

Summer is finally here and after a long, dark and rainy spring in New England. The economy has also remained dark and turbulent.
I had some hope that in late March and early April business would pick up a little. And, that’s just what business did – It picked up a little, very little.
Life and business [...]

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