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The Esri Aeronautical Solution—Airports GIS Package version 2 is now available for download from Esri. This updated offering expands the number and types of preconfigured automated validation checks to include those used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) during data submission as well as critical and noncritical attributes.

Open Spatial announced that it has completed the acquisition of the Munsys product and all associated trademarks and patents. Importantly Open Spatial now controls the sales and support businesses of Munsys in North America, Africa and Australia. Munsys in North America and Africa will commence trading under the Open Spatial brand.

Dr. Phil Manning, Head of Palaeontology Research Group, University of Manchester (UK), will deliver a keynote address at SPAR International, the Conference on End-to-End 3D, taking place April 15-18 2012 in The Woodlands (Houston), Texas.  In his presentation “Dinosaurs, Space Shuttles, Synchrotrons,”

Steve Riley, technical leader, office of the chief technology officer (CTO) at Riverbed Technology, will provide the Keynote Address at this year's Esri Developer Summit. Riley's keynote, entitled In the Cloud, Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong, will seek to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the cloud and give a fresh perspective on geospatial development in decentralized data environments.

Visitors of ASPRIS 2012 are invited to join Microsoft’s UltraCam Group at their ASPRS 2012 User Group meeting where they will be showing the remarkable new features coming with the release of our UltraMap 3.0 software, their latest photogrammetric digital aerial camera system, the UltraCam Eagle, and the Applanix-based UltraNav direct georeferencing and flight management system.  

GeoEye, a provider of geospatial information and insight, announced it has received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from GE Aviation. Under this contract, GeoEye will produce aviation reference data to serve hundreds of the world's busiest airports. Over the next decade, GeoEye intends to capture all of the world's International Air Transport Association (IATA) airports.

Blue Marble Geographics announces the release of Global Mapper version 13.1. This update features new network licensing, enhanced geospatial PDF support and much more. Blue Marble's geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology companies, as well as governmental and university organizations.

Blom announces the release of version 3.2 of the BlomDESKTOP Viewer, desktop application for geospatial data, with enhanced features and a collection of new functionalities, tools and datasets.

Telespazio France and PlanetObserver have signed a partnership agreement for PlanetObserver value-added geospatial data that will be distributed by Toulouse based Telespazio sales team.