Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc. is the world leader in 2D and 3D design software for the manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets. Autodesk Geospatial solutions provide an open platform for creating, managing and sharing spatial data across an organization. Customers can experience their ideas before they're real with innovative model-based design, mapping and management tools that are redefining the integration of design and spatial data. As a result, extended teams can access the most up-to-date, accurate spatial information across the entire organization-reducing data silos while improving efficiency, response time and customer satisfaction. For additional information, visit www.autodesk.com/geospatial.
DigitalGlobe
Longmont, Colo. - based DigitalGlobe, is the clear leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market. The company's ImageLibrary contains over three hundred million square kilometers of satellite and aerial imagery suited to countless applications for people who map, view, navigate and study the earth. DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite is the world's highest resolution
commercial imaging system.
Earthscape
Earthscape has taken the geobrowser to the next level - giving people improved user-friendly tools to view our planet in 3D, create and edit geospatial data, interact with others, and build exciting new applications. For consumers and businesses alike, Earthscape is a revolutionary new product available for free download soon.
ESRI
ESRI is the world leader in geographic information system (GIS) software providing powerful GIS solutions to more than 300,000 clients in more than 200 countries. If you are a software developer looking for an effective way to add geography and mapping to your applications, ESRI has cross-platform development and deployment tools designed to meet your needs, available as components, servers and data rich Web services.
EveryScape.com
EveryScape.com is creating "The Real World Online," the first interactive experience that lets anyone online explore a city's interiors and exteriors by walking down streets, and going inside local businesses and landmarks. Leveraging its patented HyperMedia Technology Platform, EveryScape is using a highly scalable approach for local search that creates a virtual experience of all metropolitan, suburban and rural areas.
Google
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
LightPole
LightPole, a mobile application service provider focused on the "Long Tail" publishing market, introduces a new way of integrating mobile access into Web strategies. LightPole makes it easy for publishers to distribute location-specific information to mobile devices and engage mobile users - now counted in hundreds of millions - in interactive communities.
MapJack
MapJack is the global leader in providing street-view imagery solutions. Our system is specifically designed for mass city coverage of urban areas. Our proprietary camera system is widely accepted as having the highest image quality in the industry, while at the same time being the lowest cost to scale-up.
MapQuest
MapQuest Platform Services provides businesses and developers an industry-leading geospatial web services platform that includes developer tools, flexible APIs, resources, and industry expertise for building rich, engaging mapping solutions for wireless, web, and desktop applications
MetaCarta
MetaCarta provides a platform for information about places. We enable impossible searches that allow people to explore all the unstructured information about any place simply by zooming a map. This virtuous circle of discovering textual information using a map is changing how people understand their world and make decisions in government, natural resources, digital publishing, and beyond.
Microsoft
The Microsoft Virtual Earth platform is an integrated set of services that gives organizations the ability to create applications that enable users to visually interact with complex information. Virtual Earth combines quality geospatial data, rich imagery, and dependable performance for integrating location information into business solutions.
Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. Nokia makes a wide range of mobile devices and provides people with experiences in music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games and business mobility through these devices. Nokia also provides equipment, solutions and services for communications networks.
Poly9
Poly9 helps world leaders in enterprise applications and GIS communicate the value of rich and complex data with a light, powerful, web based 3D globe platform. Proving that a web browser is all you need to support decentralized business solutions with real-time location awareness. Poly9 headquarters are in Quebec City, Canada.
Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless has developed the first ever metro-area positioning system to determine location using Wi-Fi
access points rather than satellites or cell towers. Skyhook's Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) is software only,
works indoors and outdoors, provides location instantly, and is more accurate than all other positioning
technologies indoors and in metropolitan areas.
TeleAtlas
Tele Atlas delivers the digital maps and dynamic content that power many of the world's most essential navigation and location-based services to help users find the people, places, products and services they need wherever they are. With Tele Atlas, leading companies can create the applications their customers want to enhance their quality of life.
Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. The Yahoo! Developer Network offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways, making the web a more useful and fun place for everyone. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Zvents
Zvents, the local search engine, puts events on the map and allows users to find, navigate, share, and promote businesses, entertainment, and events anywhere in the world. The Zvents Media Network is syndicated throughout 200 media publishers nationwide, creating a local advertising network that enhances business and event promotions listings.
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