Eric D. Colburn, PLS

Professional Land Surveyor News

18 February 2010

Leveraging Its Leadership in Information Modeling, Bentley Advances GIS for 3D Cities by Releasing V8i (SELECTseries 1) Versions of Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher

EXTON, Pa. – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading company dedicated to providing comprehensive software solutions for the infrastructure that sustains our world, today announced breakthroughs in 3D geospatial information systems (GIS) software to support the design and operation of intelligent cities. Intelligent cities, and the intelligent infrastructure they incorporate, take full advantage of information modeling best practices. As a result, they are able to provide better performance with respect to safety, energy, lifecycle costing, and operational efficiency. Bentley’s intra-operable portfolio of software features lifecycle support across all classes of intelligent infrastructure, including land management, power generation and energy delivery, water and wastewater networks, roads, bridges, rail, communications networks, and buildings. The just-released V8i(SELECTseries 1) versions of Bentley Map, Bentley Descartes, Bentley Geospatial Server, and Bentley Geo Web Publisher further extend this portfolio to include new 3D City GIS capabilities.

Commenting on Bentley’s new software, Richard Zambuni, Bentley global marketing director, said, “All around the world, city governments are looking for ways to improve the sustainability of their intelligent city infrastructure to deliver a better quality of life to their citizens. Bentley’s newly released 3D City GIS products enable them to adopt information modeling best practices that enhance their ability to perform urban planning, noise simulation, shadow analysis, natural disaster mitigation, public relationship management, and 3D analysis and design.

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Intergraph® Advances Enterprise Geospatial Product Lines

Newly enhanced offerings further extend the value and exchange of spatial data throughout the enterprise

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 17, 2009 – Intergraph® has enhanced its widely adopted, open geospatial technology portfolio to further extend the value and exchange of spatial data across the enterprise.

Intergraph GeoMedia® is one of the most advanced, yet simple-to-use tools for performing in-depth analysis on spatial data and for accessing and distributing the data in various formats across the enterprise and to key external stakeholders. The standards-based technology, built in accordance with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, is used worldwide by organizations in the utilities, communications, transportation and government sectors to fully leverage existing data and improve operations.

Intergraph has enhanced and expanded GeoMedia to provide improved aesthetic representation of certain features on a map, as well as updated coordinate systems support for users in Europe, Southeast Asia and South America. GeoMedia enables organizations to visually integrate a wide range of geospatially-related business data to create a clear picture of operations, facilitating faster and better decision making. The technology also allows for the quick, flexible design of high-quality maps. Read the rest of this entry →