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1Spatial technology has helped the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner (LGBC) for Northern Ireland to cut the boundary definition time of its current review of all Local Government boundaries in Northern Ireland. The purpose of the review was to provide for the establishment of 11 local government districts in Northern Ireland and for the division of the districts into wards.

How can the knowledge available in the area of satellite data use for water management purposes be strengthened in Africa?

Department for Planning & Infrastructure (DPI), a government agency in Western Australia has selected several ERDAS photogrammetry solutions for analyzing coastline movements, engineering, maritime facility mapping and nautical charting.

Safe Software announced that Netezza, a global data warehouse appliance company, is partnering with Safe Software for spatial ETL. Safe's proven FME® platform will be used to provide the spatial data loading capabilities for Netezza Spatial™, an extension to Netezza's leading data warehouse appliance. Known in the industry for its extensive format support and unmatched data transformation capabilities, FME will enable organizations that implement Netezza Spatial to efficiently load and transform large volumes of spatial data into this new data warehouse appliance.

Next month, GIS Professionals will convene at URISA’s 46th Annual Conference & Exposition in New Orleans, to address the important topics of the day including inter-governmental collaboration for cost savings and efficiencies; infrastructure sustainability and asset management; enterprise solutions; disaster response and readiness; and results-oriented public participation GIS.

ITT Corporation announced it has successfully deployed the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) essential services system for southern Florida, achieving Initial Operational Capability (IOC) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). ADS-B is a key component of the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) intended to increase safety and efficiency to meet the growing needs of air transportation.

Magellan announces the launch of a new OEM board, the MB 500. This product brings to the embedded GNSS board market a unique blend of technologies that increases RTK reliability and assures inter-compatibility with other brands of GNSS receivers

Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer Cadcorp has announced the appointment of Richard Spooner as account manager for central England and Wales.

The long awaited new Riegl USA INC website is live. Riegl USA customers wanted a website that would let them get a feel for our products and that would provide them with the resources to understand which product is best for them and why. They asked for easy access and navigation. Riegl met these demands and went an extra mile or two. The new site has a refined look and is loaded with quality photos, easy to navigate menus and an abundance of product information.