ABB has selected Intergraph for the development of an oil and gas pipeline network and relevant facilities in North Africa. The pipeline network will be built in the El Merk field, a remote, harsh desert location in Algeria.
Apogee Mapping has released amLibrary, a spatial data bundle that includes the company’s four flagship products and is packaged exclusively for use by higher education institutions.
In my column earlier this month, I discussed the use of consumer GPS receivers for GIS data collection. Remember the analogy I used?a Volkswagen Beetle wasn?t designed to run in a Formula One race? This column is going to focus on the Formula One cars, not the Volkswagen Beetles. In other words, it will focus on the GPS receivers on the market that are designed for GIS data collection. I will refer to them as GPS/GIS receivers.
Three categories of GPS are used to populate GIS databases: consumer-grade receivers, GPS receivers designed specifically for GIS data collection, and survey receivers. This month, I discuss consumer-grade receivers. In a new issue in two weeks’ time, I?ll cover the class of GPS receivers designed specifically for GIS data collection.
GE’s PII Pipeline Solutions business has launched a new version of PipeView SheetGen, a software tool for generating pipeline alignment sheets directly from maintained data sources. SheetGen automatically generates alignment sheets directly from relational databases and geographic information systems.
Schlumberger has announced the acquisition of exclusive distribution rights to the oil and gas sector for MetaCarta’s map-based geographic information search technologies.
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is reminding colleagues in academia, industry, and the defense and intelligence communities that October 1 is the deadline to submit nominations for the 2007 USGIF Awards Program.
MetaCarta, Inc., has announced an agreement with IHS Inc., a global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools, and related services, to enhance MetaCarta’s Energy Geographic Data Module to provide information when searching for energy-related information specific to a location.
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