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Your Source for Geospatial Technology Wednesday | April 30, 2008

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Maptech, a company known in geospatial circles for its Terrain Navigator Pro and Pocket Navigator map applications, but even more well-known in marine circles for its paper and electronic marine navigation tools, quietly went on the block earlier this year. Adena Schutzberg takes a look at the company's interesting past and its expected future.


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Join ASPRS April 28 to May 2, 2008, in Portland, Oregon for their 2008 Annual Conference. The conference "Bridging the Horizons - New Frontiers in Geospatial Collaboration" will offer an outstanding program of general and technical sessions and over 100 exhibit booths.



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Oracle's Location Intelligence Podcast Series (#6): Oracle Utility Applications and Integration with Oracle Locator, Spatial & MapViewer
Oracle is rapidly location-enabling many of its business applications so that users can access, visualize, query and analyze spatial information together with non-spatial information in the same enterprise database, from the same familiar application environment. In this podcast, learn firsthand how Oracle Utilities is taking advantage of Oracle Application Server MapViewer, Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial in utility industry applications. In addition, you'll hear how many of the Oracle applications that were acquired from Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft will use Oracle Spatial Technology. We are speaking to Peter Turi, Director, Product Management, Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management, and Jim Steiner, Senior Director, Oracle Server Technology.


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