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BUSINESS G E O W O R L D / O C T O B E R 2 O O 9 34 BUSINESS AAMHatch provided Wellington City Council with a 3-D city model that covers approximately 10 square kilo-meters of the Central Business Dis-trict and satellite commercial areas as well as Pictometry oblique aerial imagery covering 140 square kilome-ters of urban and rural environs. AMEC increased its use of Maptek Vulcan 3-D geological modeling for mine planning and design applications. Azteca Systems Inc. announced that the Department of Public Works in Fulton County, Ga., imple-mented its Cityworks system as part of an enterprise solution that integrates Cityworks, Advanced Utility Systems' CIS Infinity and Tele-Works' Interactive Voice Recog-nition software. BLUERIDGE Analytics announced that CADD Centers of Florida signed on as its fourth authorized U.S. reseller. Cadcorp announced that Northum-berland Fire & Rescue Service chose Cadcorp SIS Map Modeller and Cadcorp SIS Map Reader software to replace its existing mapping system. CartoPac Field Solutions announced that Chevron Pipe Line Co. implemented its CartoPac Field Server technology. CIVICTechnologies received a Special Achievement in GIS Award from ESRI. CompassCom won a contract from Seattle Public Utilities to implement a Mobile Resource Man-agement solution to manage its maintenance, emergency services and command vehicles. Dewberry was selected to begin negotiations with the U.S. Geological Survey for the new Geospatial Prod-ucts and Services Contract. Also, Dewberry and James W. Sewall Co. partnered to offer expanded services to clients in government and industry. Dialogic Communications Corp. announced that its REVERSE 911 emergency-notification system was implemented by the Rockford Police Department. DMT GmbH is conducting seismic measurements in the greater Munich area under a contract with the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics. EarthSoft announced that the Ohio Department of Transportation will implement an enterprise ver-sion of its Environmental Quality Information System for ArcGIS. Emergeo Software Solutions Middle East secured a contract within the United Arab Emirates. ERDAS Inc. announced that Kaliopa d.o.o. is the official ERDAS distributor to customers in Slovenia and Macedonia, and InfoSAT is the master ERDAS distributor to cus-tomers in Argentina. ESRI was selected as one of two finalists for Microsoft's Public Sec-tor Government Partner of the Year award; the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment is implementing ESRI GIS software to analyze, mea-sure, and report greenhouse gas emissions and land-use change; the GeoMentor program from ESRI and the National Geographic Society will enlist people who use geographic information to help educators and students better understand its numerous applications; and ESRI's Web mapping APIs are free to users building applications for internal and noncommercial environments. ESRI Canada awarded the city of Kitchener with a Special Achieve-ment in GIS Award. ESRI (UK) announced that the GIS for Schools program will offer improved access to GIS technology. Freeance Mobile announced that its software was purchased by the National Weather Service Southern Region and the state of Florida DEM to push ESRI map services out to BlackBerry smartphones. GeoAnalytics Inc. implemented a land-tracking application for the South Florida Water Management District and was retained by the Chi-cago Metropolitan Agency of Planning to enhance FutureView, its GIS-based Local Forecast Data Collection Application. GeoAnalytics also imple-mented Rolta's OnPointWeb Mapping Solution for Dane County, Wis. 3D Laser Mapping announced that its StreetMapper 360 mobile laser system was selected by Geomaat to survey a stretch of four-lane highways in The Netherlands.