GeoAge of Jacksonville, FL serves a
growing audience of mobile professionals who are generally not GIS
professionals. GeoAge offers a toolkit for non-GIS professionals to
rapidly capture information by building mobile forms and integrating
GPS information as well as digital images, video etc. According to Jeff
Arnold, CEO, the company's Field Adapted Survey Toolkit (FAST) solution
is comprised of digital forms that operate on mobile devices that
capture location-based data and then synchronize it to a master
database. FAST is primarily used in field service management
applications but also by company’s like Sharp Electronics that use it for market research. The company has strategic partnerships with Alltel
Wireless and other mobile handset manufacturers that integrate GPS into
their handheld devices.