2006 March 23
Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Hand-Held Devices Used For Multimodal Routing
- Autodesk Launches Map3D 2007
- Department Of Corrections
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Editor's Introduction
This week I report on an interesting pilot project, in Melbourne, Australia, using hand-held devices for multi-modal routing, and on Autodesk's new Map 3D 2007. Plus, a correction and my usual round-up of news from press releases.
— Matteo
Hand-Held Devices Used For Multimodal Routing
For the 18th Commonwealth Games , held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, March 15 to 26, the Victorian government contracted with Geomatic Technologies to deliver multi-modal transport routing to non-technical users by hand-held equipment. I discussed the project with Andrew Bashfield, the company's Sales & Marketing Manager, and with Jessica Davies, a Business Analyst.
According to Bashfield, from the moment it signed the contract to the start of the games Geomatic Technologies had only about five months, though this project was an expansion of work that the company had already been doing with the Victorian state government. "The government," Bashfield told me, "saw that there was an opportunity to highlight the work that it does in promoting innovation within Victorian businesses by coming up with a system that had never been done before."
The system directs visitors to the Commonwealth Games to the different events, which are spread out across Melbourne and even further afield in the state. The government, Bashfield told me, is keen for people to use public transport wherever possible to attend those events, so Geomatic Technologies designed the system to use the public transport routing network — which in Melbourne includes busses, trains, and one of the most extensive tram networks in the world (an electrified light rail system that shares the road with cars, trucks, and busses). … Read More …
Autodesk Launches Map3D 2007
Today Autodesk, Inc. further blurred the line between computer-aided design (CAD) and GIS as it officially launched three new products that tightly integrate these two worlds: Autodesk Civil 3D 2007, Autodesk Map 3D 2007, and Autodesk Raster Design 2007. The company had actually released beta sites from their non-disclosure agreement as of March 1 and bloggers had immediately begun singing praises of the products' new 3D features and environment. Autodesk's spatial information management solutions also include Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise and Autodesk Utility Design. Autodesk Civil 3D and Autodesk Map 3D are built on the AutoCAD 2007 platform.
I discussed Autodesk Map 3D 2007 with Mark Christian, Technical Marketing Manager for Map 3D and Autodesk's strategy with Chris Bradshaw, vice president of Autodesk's Infrastructure Solutions Division. I will report here on the former conversation and next week on the latter.
I asked Christian whether he agreed that these products were blurring the line between CAD and GIS. "Absolutely," he told me, "that is our value proposition for Map3D: it is based on the leading CAD-based design tool, which is AutoCAD, but we are adding all these geospatial features. What you see is exactly blurring the line: Map3D is a desktop GIS tool that has all these fundamental CAD design functions within it." … Read More …
Department Of Corrections
In last week's issue, in my coverage of the upcoming ACSM conference, I accidentally attributed to Tim Kent remarks made to me instead by the chair of the conference planning committee, John Hohol, who is a consultant in Madison, Wisconsin. Additionally, Kent is no longer with the BLM; instead, he is now an assistant professor at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
News Briefs
Please note: I have culled the following news items from press releases and have not independently verified them.
CONTRACTS & COLLABORATIONS
To prepare for a possible influenza pandemic in the United States, ESRI is working with Scientific Technologies Corporation (STC), an international public health information systems firm that will offer an exercise program to help private businesses and public organizations assess readiness and help prepare and develop an action plan. … Read More …
Miner & Miner, a Telvent company, has signed a contract with the North American utility Consumers Energy, to implement outage management for its energy distribution system. … Read More …
Hood County, Texas, has implemented a visual information system by Pictometry International Corp., a provider of digital, aerial oblique imagery and measuring software, in a wide range of county government departments. … Read More …
Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Council, in the North East of England, has selected Cadcorp GeognoSIS.NET to underpin the delivery of on-line services to its citizens. … Read More …
Digital mapping and GIS software developer Cadcorp has appointed Prague-based land surveying and geodetic data solutions company Hrdlicka spol. s r.o. as a Cadcorp business partner for the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries. … Read More …
Bentley Systems, Incorporated has connected MicroStation to the Google Earth service. … Read More …
Dodge County, Wisconsin, has retained GeoAnalytics Inc., an IT consulting firm that specializes in the planning, design, and implementation of enterprise information systems, to help guide the creation of a second generation street centerline GIS database that supports various County department and external partner business functions. … Read More …
East View Cartographic (EVC) has signed an agreement to become an official reseller of topographic and thematic maps from the Survey of Bangladesh. … Read More …
Bentley Systems, Incorporated has acquired Logos BV, an international provider of the isometric software tools PlantSpace Isometrics (formerly known as L/ISO and IsoExtractor). … Read More …
EPB, a provider of electric power and communications in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has chosen Intergraph's G/Technology to streamline operations in the organization's Electric System and Telecom divisions. … Read More …
GlobeXplorer, a provider of online aerial, satellite and map data, has expanded its reach by partnering with Zillow.com, a new real estate information Web site. Zillow.com provides free valuations and data for more than 60 million U.S. homes, including high-resolution satellite, aerial, and parcel images in many areas, provided by GlobeXplorer. … Read More …
The Bristol Bay Native Association (BBNA) of Dillingham, Alaska, has awarded a contract to Blue Skies Solutions to continue the development of an integrated GIS and document management system to aid the BBNA Lands & Resources department in their execution and management of realty transactions. … Read More …
TerraGo Technologies, provider of the MAP2PDF family of products and GeoPDF, has been awarded a United States General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule contract number, GS-35F-0262S. … Read More …
The city of Plantation, Florida, has selected Intergraph Corporation to provide its police, fire, and emergency medical services with an integrated, multi-agency incident response and management system in a contract worth $1.9 million. … Read More …
PRODUCTS
Graphic Technologies, Inc. (GTI) has launched GTSmartClient, a Web application with the look and feel of a rich client application. … Read More …
CARIS has released the Additional Military Layer (AML) Product Editor, the latest addition to the CARIS Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) product suite. … Read More …
NAVTEQ, a provider of digital maps for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has released a specialist map dataset of truck attributes for the French market. … Read More …
WhiteStar Corp. will unveil its new WhiteStar Elevation Service at the upcoming Geo2006 Middle East Geosciences Conference & Exhibition in Manama, Bahrain, March 27-29, and at the China International Oil & Gas Pipeline Expo in Beijing, March 22-24. … Read More …
MapText, Inc., a provider of high-quality cartographic text placement software, will demonstrate its latest text placement technology at GIS-T 2006, the 19th annual GIS for Transportation Symposium, to be held in Columbus, Ohio, March 27-29. … Read More …
NavCom Technology, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Deere & Company, has introduced the newly enhanced VueStar aerial survey solution, including its new StarPac utility software that facilitates better integration into pre-existing workflows. … Read More …
Intergraph Corporation has launched a new version of the ImageStation suite of products, with an enhanced user interface, improved computation performance in triangulation, automatic Digital Terrain Modeling (DTM), and improved orthophoto processing. … Read More …
PEOPLE
Three well-known industry leaders will provide keynote addresses at GeoWeb 2006, to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 24-28. … Read More …
Pictometry International Corp., a provider of digital, aerial oblique imagery and measuring software, has selected Robert Carroll to fill its newly created position of division president for international sales and operations. … Read More …
WindSpring, Inc., a data miniaturization innovator, has appointed Marios Zenios and Don McPherson to its board of directors. … Read More …
CONFERENCES
The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) has added a poster session at Annual Conference 29, scheduled for April 23-26, in Tampa, Florida. … Read More …
GeoDecisions will present or co-present the following GIS topics at the GIS for Transportation (GIS-T) Symposium: Delaware's Comprehensive Integrated GIS Transportation Solution, March 27, 1:30 p.m.; The State Network Project, March 27, 3:30 p.m.; The NDOT Location Information System (LoIS): A Survey Monument Web Application, March 28, 10:30 a.m.; Crash Data Access and Retrieval Tool (CDART), March 28, 10:30 a.m.; A Technology Upgrade for KDOT's Truck Routing Information System (TRIS), March 28, 1:30 p.m.; Forecasting Stop-Level Ridership for Florida's Transit Systems, March 28, 1:30 p.m.; Mississippi DOT Safety Analysis Management System - Detailed Design and Alpha Software Release, March 28, 3:30 p.m.; The New Hampshire DOT Route Logs System: A New Enterprise Tool to Maximize Business Data Analysis, March 29, 8:30 a.m.; and Road Closure Reporting System, March 29, 10:30 a.m. 6
ESRI plans extensive participation, including conference sponsorship, at the Map Middle East 2006 conference. … Read More …
OTHER
Jaap Groot, CEO of Teydo BV, a location-based services company, was on hand recently to open Teydo's new Americas headquarters, less than a year after the company launched its FleetOnline GPS tracking solution in North America. … Read More …
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