Autodesk today reported revenues of $210.8 Million, down from $229 Million one year ago. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was cited for curtailing sales activities in the Asia-Pacific region where sales calls had to be halted altogether in Beijing. Although revenues were down, Carol
Bartz stated emphatically that, “It is way, way too early to give up on
this year.”

At the Intergraph User’s Conference,
GeoSpatial World, this week in New Orleans, core technological strengths
and a desire to serve their existing customers with consistent product
improvements were emphasized. Solutions are key to this focused strategy
that builds on Intergraph’s fundamental belief in their core GeoMedia technology.

This month, we review Map-In-A-Box, an add-on to MapInfo Professional 6.0 (or higher) that seamlessly integrates Microsoft’s MapPoint 2002 functionality into MapInfo Professional. Map-In-A-Box is available in a North American version and a European version. The North American version includes seamless geographic data for the United States and Canada while the European version has seamless geographic data across the European Union.  The integration of
the MapPoint data within MapInfo is very useful for users that want to view seamless maps that cross country boundaries, geocode data and find street data in multiple countries.

CommunityCartography has released a thin-client geographic data viewer for the New York City (NYC) Property Atlas. The Property Atlas is an excellent solution for users who want to distribute NYC data to a wide community of users, without having to invest in multiple licenses of full-scale GIS applications.

GeoMedia Professional is designed for users that need additional functionality to create and edit spatial data. The software builds on the current GeoMedia software
with specific tools for GIS data capture and editing. GeoMedia Professional uses standard RDBMS technologies for its data model to store, access and manage
spatial data using Access and Oracle databases.

John J. Lumpkin of the Associated Press used IKONOS imagery (see accompanying story on the IKONOS imagery that shows the areas targeted by coalition forces) of the Dora Farm area along the Tigris River in Baghdad to build his story of the war’s first night of attacks that targeted Saddam Hussein.

GeoMicro provides its clients with integrated mapping solutions. AltaMap has been successfully deployed within local governments,
utilities, and engineering companies. This article will focus on the use
of GeoMicro’s solutions for Asset Tracking and Location Based Services.
AltaMap AVL and LBS solutions combine the ease of use and scalability -
of a mapping service with the customization and analytical capabilities”
of a GIS map server.

Summary: The FME Professional Suite simplifies the process of converting data among different spatial data formats. The product can translate data among a wide variety of data formats from the multiple GIS software vendors. The Universal Translator is intuitive and very user friendly.  The user is able to quickly and easily convert files among multiple GIS software products using the Universal Translator. For users that require advanced functionality with regards to transforming their spatial data, the FME Workbench provides the tools for performing these types of data transformations. The FME Universal Viewer is ideal for someone that needs to preview data in particular software vendor’s format, but does not have access to use that software vendor’s program to view the spatial data.