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NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for location-based solutions and vehicle navigation, has announced the launch of Digital Terrain Model and Satellite Imagery which enable richer, more realistic map display in location-based and navigation applications. These are in addition to NAVTEQ’s 2D Landmark Footprints, Enhanced 2D Footprints, 3D City Models and 3D Landmark products.

Digital Terrain Model provides three dimensional elevation data that reflects the relative height of the earth’s surface. This is further enhanced with texture and colors to help users better understand where they are in relation to surrounding natural landmarks.

Satellite Imagery adds realism to map display and helps consumers more easily orient themselves in the real world when used in navigation and location-based systems. NAVTEQ has enhanced its Satellite Imagery to have a consistent look and feel worldwide, creating a more seamless user experience and enabling global use for large scale applications.

The combination of these new types of Visual Content enables system displays to offer a real world representation which is being demanded by sophisticated consumers with increasing expectations for realistic navigation experiences. Both products are available worldwide and include names and features from the NAVTEQ digital map that add more contexts.

"Reaction to our existing Visual Content products has been very positive so far. With the addition of Digital Terrain and Satellite Imagery, customers of the NAVTEQ Map will now have even more flexibility to add realism and context to map displays," said Cliff Fox, SVP Map Division of NAVTEQ.

NAVTEQ has geo-referenced these two new layers of Visual Content to the industry leading NAVTEQ map, which enables application developers to flexibly implement this content relevant to their user needs and system capacity.

In keeping NAVTEQ’s single database specification, these Visual Content products are offered in a consistent global format to help improve time-to-market and application development timing.

Given the success of NAVTEQ Visual Content, a future expansion of the product portfolio is expected.

The latest version of ESRI’s BusinessMAP can now be launched directly from Sage Software’s ACT! and ACT! Premium. BusinessMAP 4.5 is an affordable, easy-to-use database mapping solution for businesses, transforming contact management information from ACT! into maps useful for making better business decisions.

“ACT! users can benefit from automating their key marketing activities,” explains Paul Little, ACT! Add-on Solution program manager. “BusinessMAP is a useful tool for helping people visualize their ACT! contacts and executing successful marketing campaigns.”

With BusinessMAP as an add-on solution available from the toolbar of the new ACT! 2008 product family, users can view an entire database, an ACT! group of contacts, or a currently open contact on a map with the push of a button. Users can then perform geographic queries including, for example, finding all contacts within a 25-mile radius of an event location such as a trade show. These query results may then be saved to ACT! as a group for mail merges or other marketing activities.

BusinessMAP makes it easy to understand customer concentrations, create sales territories, analyze areas by sales or number of customers, and generate meaningful reports. Geographic, demographic, and business data is built in to BusinessMAP including street maps from Tele Atlas, ZIP Code boundaries, census tracts, consumer expenditure data, and more than 22 million business listings from D&B

BusinessMAP allows you to perform

- Color code analysis: Color maps quickly to reveal areas of greater population, higher income, better sales, additional customers, and more. New on-map charts also highlight variations in data values for further emphasis.
- Territory design: Create territories or even a hierarchy with up to four levels such as area, region, and district. Separate prospect lists can be created geographically and given to sales representatives for action. Balanced territories are even easier to build using the new spatial calculator feature.
- Ring study analysis: Analyze and reveal demographics in an area surrounding a location such as aggregate demographics and other data within one, three, and five miles around a potential store site or other location .
- Drive-time analysis: Create up to three drive-time zones around a location that are defined by the time it takes to drive to or from a given point. These zones can then be analyzed for targeted advertising campaigns, new store locations, or the best locations for a new office.
- Spider diagramming: Create spider diagrams depicting many-to-one relationships such as customer traffic to a retail store.
- Find similar area: Use demographic data to uncover areas comparable to existing successful market areas.

As a special promotion, any ACT! 2008 user can license a copy of BusinessMAP 4.5 for $299.95 (a $50.00 savings) by calling the BusinessMAP/ACT! Hotline at 1-888-523-0269. This offer expires September 30, 2007.

Surveyors and cadastral land record managers will start learning to work with the new Cadastral Editor technology in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 during a complimentary Web seminar in September.

Introduction to the Cadastral Editor in ArcGIS Survey Analyst 9.2 will air on ESRI’s Training and Education Web site at www.esri.com/lts on September 13, 2007, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (PDT).

The ArcGIS Survey Analyst extension enables surveyors and geographic information system (GIS) professionals to create and maintain survey and cadastral data in ArcGIS. The application lets them centrally locate, process, and manage data, allowing them to work more efficiently. Using the capabilities in Cadastral Editor, cadastral survey records can be stored in a new type of dataset called the cadastral fabric.

The cadastral fabric is a layer of parcels, representing multiple land record sources that are seamlessly connected and integrated. This informative seminar will provide an overview of the features of Cadastral Editor such as the ability to add new parcels from subdivision plats, split parcels, add control points, and improve the spatial positions of parcels without changing the original survey record data stored in the database.

Seminar attendees will learn

· The basic properties of a cadastral fabric dataset
· How to use the Cadastral Editor to add new parcels, split parcels, and add control points
· The key principles behind the surveyor’s method of least-squares adjustment, which uses the record information from multiple connected parcel boundaries to achieve the best-fit coordinate positions
· How to use the results of a least-squares adjustment to update the other GIS layers

Those viewing the seminar should be familiar with working in the ArcGIS 9.x editing environment including knowing how to use the Editor, Coordinate Geometry (COGO), and Advanced Editing toolbars.

A broadband Internet connection and an ESRI Global Account are needed to watch the seminar. Creating a global account is easy and free: visit www.esri.com/lts, click Login, and register your name and address. After the live presentation, the seminar will be archived and available on the ESRI Training and Education Web site.

For more information about this free live training seminar and upcoming seminars, visit www.esri.com/lts.

BlueSky (United Kingdom) has produced a colour coded temperature map of every property in Hastings in a bid to help the Council tackle fuel poverty and climate change.

The map shows the level of heat lost from every building highlighting properties with high levels of heat loss and therefore poor insulation or properties with low levels of heat loss that may be ‘under’ heated or even empty.

The Council is using the BlueSky data to target remedial action on Council owned properties and identify households that may be eligible for a range of grants and additional support.

The property level thermal infrared survey data was captured using an airborne thermal infrared sensor, a modified version of technology used by the military for night vision.

Captured during an early winter evening in order to capture the widest variations in temperature the raw survey data was then processed by BlueSky to calculate building heat loss scores for every building polygon in the Council’s Ordnance Survey base mapping.

The processed data was delivered to the Council as a colour coded map displaying building scores, providing an instant snapshot of the borough and as a map accurate dataset for use in the Council’s GIS.

The thermal survey was initially commissioned by the Policy Department to help target fuel poverty.

Correlation of the thermal values with other council records, including deprivation indicators, housing stock condition reports and the Councils address database allows officers to quickly identify both council and privately owned properties with high levels of heat loss and therefore potentially poor insulation. A range of services, including grants, can then be offered to residents in an effort to increase energy efficiency.

Source: GIM International