| NEWSBRIEFS –INDUSTRY |
| Garmin claims number one
position on the PND market |
Garmin has claimed that it is the global
leader in PND sales, having sold more
than any other manufacturer in 2007 as per
the research provided by Canalys, market
analyst firm. www.gpsbusinessnews.com |
| ESRI Joins NAVTEQ
developers platform |
NAVTEQ has announced the addition
of the ESRI Zone within the NAVTEQ
Network for Developers (NN4D)
development program. ESRI, a GIS
software leader will provide NN4D
developers with access to a comprehensive
environment for rapid application
development, tools, documentation and
support. www.gpsbusinessnews.com
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| Mio releases Moov auto GPS systems |
Mio has released 3 automobile navigation
systems Moov 200, Moov 330 and Moov
370. Main upgrades common to all include
MioMore software that allows moving
points of interest back and forth between
a computer and the unit as well as SIRF’s
InstantFixII GPS receiver for quicker
finding of satellites. www.electronista.com |
| Magellan brings wide screens,
traffic to RoadMate |
Magellan has unveiled three new additions
to its RoadMate series of PNDs. The base
model of the series, the RoadMate 1400,
comes preloaded with Navteq road maps.
It also comes pre-loaded with a database
of European safety cameras, which
provides locations of known cameras for
each region. www.magellangps.com |
| Toyota creates new integrated
Portable Nav System for yaris |
Having just introduced a new OEM
headunit that features integration with a
TomTom handheld GPS system, Toyota's
European division may just have started
a new revolution with its new Yaris.
When the handheld TomTom is docked
in the dashboard, the system charges
and operates as an integrated navigation
system. http://car-reviews.automobile.com |
| u-blox GPS powers LandAirSea
GSM-based tracker |
LandAirSea Systems, announced
the launch of a battery-powered,
GSM-based real-time vehicle
tracking unit featuring u-blox 5 GPS
technology. www.sunherald.com |
| Infotech Enterprises, India inks
multi-year pact with Tele Atlas |
Infotech Enterprises has signed a new
multi-year contract with Tele Atlas to
provide extensive map database and
software development services. Through
the agreement, Infotech’s database teams
shall assist in the production of Tele Atlas’
digital map database. www.stockwatch.in |
| German radar satellite generates
precise traffic information |
TerraSAR-X The German Aerospace
Center (DLR) has begun several months
of tests to obtai traffic information via
its new radar satellite. It is going to
monitor selected sections of motorway
in Europe and in the USA. It aims to
develop a procedure for large-scale
traffic data capture, independent of
ground systems,that permits data
relay to various traffic information
providers. www.gpsbusinessnews.com/ |
| Contex’s new large format
imaging solutions |
Contex has recently released professional
wide format scanners. With its
technological and stylistic enhancements,
the product suite boasts even greater image
quality and flexibility. Easily integrated
with most wide format printers, the
scanners enable users to create visually
unified, multi-function copying and
printing solutions. Contex has upgraded
the optical resolution from 508 dpi to 600
dpi. “600 dpi is the highest true optical
resolution specification in the large format
scanning industry today,” says Niels
Appel, Executive VP, Sales and Marketing
for Contex operations. “Optical resolution
is a key indicator of image quality – and
we are very pleased to offer our customers
this industry-leading capability.” |
| TerraPOS Precise Point Positioning |
TerraPOS is the GNSS post-processing
software capable of accurate positioning
without the use of reference stations
or DGPS services. Reference stations
are made obsolete by employing
precise satellite orbits and satellite
clock corrections coupled with
state-of-the-art error modeling.
It is specially developed for kinematic
applications, such as airborne
photogrammetry or LIDAR operations,
seabed mapping, or seismic surveying. |
| TopoSys virtually eliminates
calibration flights for
aerial LIDAR surveys |
TopoSys has virtually eliminated the need
for calibration flights or “Boresighting”
for aerial LIDAR surveys with their
line of LiDAR sensors which are highly
stable, completely integrated, turnkey
systems of IMU, GPS, LIDAR
sensor and digital imaging systems.
“Calibration” and “boresighting” are
two terms for the process to determine
the offsets between the IMU coordinate
axes and the Lidar coordinate axes. |
| Blue Marble to offer tracking
service for public pay phones |
Blue Marble Geographics has announced a
new service, GPS tracking for pay phones.
With this new technology enterprise,users are able to receive up-to-the-month
updates of the coordinate position, spatial
whereabouts, barometric change, and
amount of loose change in the change
return slot. The Premium Service level
will supply change detection in the graffiti
located on the pay phone windows. |
| Chaos systems AB releases
Mapsuite+ 6.0! |
Mapsuite+ 6.0, the CAD software for
surveying, mapping and design has now
reached its 6’th version, with a lot of
new enhancements for the surveying and
mapping people. It includes new CAD
functions like Create polygon, Generate
legend on drawing sheet, Copy point
attribute to object attribute, Make entity
properties current and Edit road line in
a drawing. For DTM; the user is now
able to Drape image over 3D model,
and also use height scale in 3D model. |
| Applanix launches
POSPac Marine 5.0 |
Applanix recently introduced a new
version GNSS-Aided Inertial postprocessing
software for marine mapping
and surveying applications—the
POSPac™ Marine 5.0 software. It
combines GPS network and inertial
post-processing methods that work
together to eliminate or reduce the
restrictions currently associated with high
accuracy GNSS positioning in a Marine
environment. It also released LANDMark
Marine™ mobile mapping solution,
which is videogrammetry and LIDAR
imaging system for surface mapping
suitable for operation on a marine vessel. |
| New TruePosition hybrid
location solution |
TruePosition has announced the Hybrid
Location Solution, which combines
network-based and handset-based
location technologies and leverages the
benefits of each to gain higher accuracy
and reliability. The solution can
incorporate a combination of location
technologies such as Cell ID, Enhanced
Cell ID, Angle of Arrival, Uplink Time
Difference of Arrival, and Assisted GPS. |
| Pitney Bowes and Microsoft
SQL alliance |
Pitney Bowes MapInfo has announced
that its flagship MapInfo Professional
application for business mapping
and analysis will utilize the spatial
enhancements in Microsoft SQL
Server 2008 to provide customers
with enhanced geographic and
business data management. |
| GeoEye and Mitsubishi agreement |
GeoEye has signed a multi-year
agreement with Mitsubishi Corporation
to allow its Regional Affiliate, Japan
Space Imaging Corporation to collect and
sell Earth imagery and related products
from the GeoEye-1 satellite. The
contract was signed March 28, 2008 in
Tokyo. The receiving antenna will be
located in Okinawa and the processing
facility will be located in Tokyo. |
| INTERGEO East successful once again |
 At the fifth INTERGEO event, almost
80% of exhibitors said that the fair
was their top marketing activity for
the year. It recorded some 3,000 trade
visitors, 160 congress participants
and 85 satisfied exhibitors from 19
countries. The three-day event staged
by HINTE GmbH and CongrExpo d.o.o,
which came to a close on February 20,
once again underpinned its position
as a key industry event for South-
East Europe and an international
forum for making new contacts. Over
80% of exhibitors achieved the goals
they set themselves for the trade fair,
and 75% of participating companies
and institutions said that they would
like to take part in the sixth show,
which is scheduled for spring 2009. |
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