George Mason University (GMU) has received an Intergraph Global Education Grant in support of its United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's (USGIF) geointelligence (GEOINT) accreditation.

A collaboration between ESRI and Microsoft Corp. has resulted in ArcGIS users gaining access to SQL Server 2008.

CartoPac Field Solutions has teamed up with GeoSpatial Experts to provide software that will enable field workers to download, view, and reference the GPS points of photos from an enterprise database, according to the companies.

Geospatial Holdings Inc.has hired Richard McDonald, a veteran surveyor and photogrammetrist, as executive vice president of GIS Operations.

Ray Caputo, a geographer for the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (TEC) has won the 2008 Geospatial Intelligence Achievement Award in the military category from the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) for his work on an Army GeoPDF project.

SPOT Image Corp. has rolled out two service offerings developed to provide clients with direct access to SPOT satellite imagery in the Google Earth environment, according to the company.

British Transport Police are implementing ERDAS APOLLO 2009 to manage its gridded geospatial data with an eye to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, according to ERDAS.

Microsoft recently updated several aspects of Virtual Earth, boosting the services available for it from Multipmap, as well as increasing the high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery available to Virtual Earth users via DigitalGlobe.

DeLorme has released its first upgrade for XMap 6 users, a free service patch update to the software, designated as XMap 6.1, which includes new or enhanced support for AutoCAD, MrSID, and the DeLorme Earthmate PN-40 handheld GPS.
