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The membership of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is requesting comments from the public on the candidate OGC Document, "The OGC Specification Model - Writing Modular Specifications".

At the recent Map World Forum trade show and conference in Hyderabad, India, India's GIS Development communication network awarded the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) GIS Development's "Professional Service to Geospatial Community Award". The award is a handsome 10 inch wooden globe sculpted to depict layers of information.

SuperMap Software, signed a distribution agreement with Green Line Center, appointing this company as the exclusive distributor for SuperMap GIS software in Libya, Egypt and Sudan.

ERDAS announces that LPS was recently selected and utilized for a significant project to create 3D models of the Acropolis in Greece. LPS is an integrated suite of photogrammetry software tools for generating terrain models, producing orthophotos and extracting 3D features.

Optech Incorporated announces that Network Mapping, a specialist in corridor surveying, has just purchased their second ALTM (Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper). Their second ALTM also happens to be one of Optech's new corridor mapping systems, the ALTM Orion C200, based on the highly acclaimed Orion platform.

ESRI, provider of geographic information system (GIS) technology, announces that its Production Line Tool Set (PLTS) for ArcGIS-Aeronautical Solution (Aeronautical Solution) now enables aviation organizations to populate Electronic Terrain and Obstacle databases (eTOD). This enhancement will make it easier for International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) participating states to capture and manage obstacle and terrain data necessary for aviation maps and charts, as required by ICAO.

ESRI's release of ArcGIS Business Analyst Server 9.3 brings an enterprise solution for collaborative business geographics to the marketplace. It enables the creation, sharing, and deployment of workflows and analysis across entire organizations, allowing for more sophisticated business models and intelligence to be developed cooperatively. ArcGIS Business Analyst Server also provides a host of prepackaged processes, data, and functions that allow users to rapidly generate analyses and workflows with less time spent in development and deployment. Because Business Analyst Server is built on core ArcGIS technology, developers can easily build and deploy custom browser-based GIS applications that support specific business functions.

ERDAS announces a new release of ERDAS Image Web Server, with Optimized Tile Delivery serving more than 4000 tiles in one second. In comparison benchmarks, ERDAS Image Web Server consistently delivers more data, quicker, using less hardware than other image serving products.

Mercator Suite 7, the new version of STAR-APIC's cartographic production software, will be demonstrated for the first time in the US on the STAR-APIC stand (booth 419) at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) from March 23-27, 2009 in Las Vegas. Over 7000 visitors and delegates are expected to attend this year's event that includes over 4000 presentations and over 60 exhibitors.