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Maptitude 2017 Adds Enhanced MapPoint and Streets & Trips Features

March 3, 2017 - in News, Products

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS (USA) - Maptitude 2017 dominates the space vacated by MapPoint®, supporting Microsoft MapPoint-like tools & queries. With enhanced versions of the features that MapPoint users are familiar with, Maptitude retains the ease-of-use…

Siemens and Bentley Systems Agree to Jointly Offer Planning and Design Solutions for Utilities

February 2, 2017 - in Corporate, News

SAN DIEGO - Building on the strategic alliance between Siemens and Bentley Systems that was made public in November 2016, Siemens’ Energy Management…

TerraGo Partners with CompassTools to Deliver Advanced GIS & GPS Data Collection Solutions

January 20, 2017 - in Corporate, News

Washington, D.C. - TerraGo is pleased to announce their partnership with CompassTools, a leading provider of integrated GIS, GPS and wireless solutions…

New Technology by Michael Baker International Empowers City of Richmond to Visualize Change and Establish a More Connected Transit System

January 11, 2017 - in News, Products

Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, is helping residents and city officials in Richmond, Va., rethink the design of the Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) bus system and establish a more connected…

Geospatial Corporation Leveraging Technologies and Software to Meet New Federal Buried Pipeline Requirement

July 25, 2016 - in Corporate, News

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania – July 25, 2016– Geospatial Corporation (OTCIQ Symbol “GSPH”) announces the long awaited passage of the PIPES ACT of 2016. The bill, recently signed into law by President Obama, empowers the Pipeline Hazardous Material Safety…

A Watershed Moment in Public Alerting

June 14, 2016 - in Feature, Featured

A real-time web map goes a long way to prevent sickness when force majeure strikes. Last winter, a torrential storm caused two water pump outages in Atlanta, Georgia, risking contamination and necessitating a boil water advisory be issued to affected residents.…

Federated GIS Based on Bentley Map Enables Cancún to Collect 66 Percent More Property Tax

May 22, 2014 - in Analysis, Feature, Featured

Bentley Channel Partner Innovacion Sistemas y Proyectos (iSP) is a leading provider of geospatial information systems (GIS) services to local, state, and federal governments as well as the pharmaceutical industry in Mexico. The City of Cancún retained iSP…

How Broadband Mapping Drives Economic Development and Planning Initiatives

January 8, 2014 - in Analysis, Feature, Featured, Roads, Transit

While an internet connection has become a daily fixture in the life of most Americans, lack of access to high-speed internet service, also known as broadband, is still putting portions of the country at a disadvantage. Connected Nation, a national non-profit…

Does the term GIS mean anything at all?

August 1, 2013 - in Column, Modeling

I have recently been reading a series of national and state GIS articles and user needs documents, all of which talk about the need for a National GIS or a State GIS, and the importance of GIS data, without ever stating in any way what a GIS is, or what GIS…

A Tidal Shift in Water Network Management

September 24, 2012 - in Feature, Featured, Wastewater, Water

Water consumption worldwide is on the steepest of hockey stick curves—since 1950, annual consumption has tripled, and in 2006 passed 4,300 km3… that’s about 30% of the available supply of renewable water. Water consumption is expanding considerably faster…