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DATA Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada collaborated with Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, and Canadian prov-inces and territories to create the GeoBase Land Cover data layer in vector format. First American Spatial Solu-tions digitally mapped more than 120 million of America's property parcels. NAVTEQ released navigable maps of the Bahamas, St. Barts and the Cayman Islands. Tele Atlas introduced MultiNet 2009.06, developed with 18,000 kilometers of new road geometry added from GPS measurements to build out the road network of Romania. The database also real-izes 500,000 edits sourced from community input from more than 30 countries. The company also released Tele Atlas HD Traffic for navigation and location-based solu-tions designed to find the quickest routes to destinations using live road conditions. Urban Mapping Inc. enhanced its URBANWARE Neighborhoods database, incorporating nearly 8,000 new neighborhoods in the United States and 500 new neighborhoods across Canada and Europe. In addition, Urban Mapping now can merge data from existing sources with input from local residents. U.S. Geological Survey released an updated geologic history of Rocky Mountain National Park. The geologic map and companion 56-page report covers more than 90 percent of Rocky Mountain National Park and much of the sur-rounding area. SOFTWARE Applanix introduced its POSTrack 410 Flight Management and Direct Georeferencing system designed for the latest generation of medium-format airborne digital photogram-metric cameras. Avencia Inc. released a new ver-sion of CiceroLive, the free sample application of its Cicero data and mapping tool, a district-matching and legislative elected-official Web service API. Dialogic Communications Corp. released GeoCast Web 1.6, including modifications to the user interface, plume modeling and text-to-speech. DeLorme released its Earthmate PN-40 Extension for ESRI software, allowing mobile professionals to convert collected waypoints and tracks with associated comments for import into ArcGIS Desktop as Shapefiles. EmerGeo Solutions released its EmerGeo FusionPoint crisis-management software, which uses the latest open Web standards and Service Oriented Architecture to enable integration with a wide vari-ety of systems. Intergraph introduced GeoMedia SDI Pro, which provides Web ser vices for implementing SDIs and enables organizations to meet government data collabora-tion and compliance mandates. The application also includes GeoMedia Fusion for facilitating compliance with INSPIRE and other government directives. In addition, Intergraph enhanced and expanded GeoMedia to provide improved aesthetic representation of certain map features as well as updated coordinate-system sup-port for users in Europe, South-east Asia and South America. Also, GeoMedia WebMap now provides real-time access to enterprise geospatial data, along with spatial analysis and map-generation func-tionality, through a Web browser. GeoMedia and GeoMedia WebMap now include additional support for OGC standards, including KML for publishing to commercial geospa-tial Web browsers. ESRI released ArcGIS Business Analyst Online 9.3, which allows users to analyze data and perform investigation without any software train-ing. In addition, ESRI and First American Spatial Solutions released the Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS, a location-based risk-analysis solution for the insurance industry. And ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Desktop users now can complement GIS projects with geocoding, place-finding and routing capabilities. Composed of World Geocoding and World Routing, these new ArcGIS Online location services use Tele Atlas reference data and are hosted and maintained by ESRI. PRODUCT NEWS G E O W O R L D / S E P T E M B E R 2 O O 9 28