The City of Pearland, Texas, has procured GIS software from Geographic Technologies Group Inc., upgrading the city's Viewer, Crimes, and Dispatch software to the ArcGIS Server environment, according to GTG.

NAVTEQ has joined Autodesk's Data Initiative, which provides Autodesk's geospatial customers with online access to NAVTEQ's map data via a co-branded Web site.

Cadcorp has received a contract from the United Kingdom's Babergh District Council for the supply and implementation of a new GIS based on Cadcorp SIS desktop and Cadcorp GeognoSIS web-based software.

Caliper Corp. has released GIS data software for the country of New Zealand, enabling the creation of maps down to local level areas for anywhere within the country, according to the company.

At its 26th Plenary Meeting held at Copenhagen in May 2008, the ISO/TC 211 Technical Committee decided to maintain its geospatial reference models using Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, according to the company.

Clark Labs has signed a memorandum of understanding with Nigeria's RECTAS to equip its training laboratories with the IDRISI and Land Change Modeler software and provide all trainees with free software licenses.

TerraGo Technologies has taken the wraps off Map2PDF Professional for Acrobat version 4.1, following up its release of Map2PDF for ArcGIS 4.0.

ERDAS has released TITAN 2009, its geospatial data sharing tool, adding support for additional geospatial applications including its own IMAGINE, Image Web Server, and APOLLO apps, as well as ESRI's ArcGIS.

IDV Solutions has released Visual Fusion Experience 3.0, a rich Internet application complement to its Visual Fusion Server.