GITA Exhibitors

• Autodesk (Booth 1416) - At GITA, Autodesk’s GIS Solutions Division will be highlighting their utilities, communications, government, and mobile and web solutions. This year’s conference will provide attendees with better ways to plan, design, manage, and maintain information technology systems and operations. Autodesk seminars include:
  - Leveraging Geospatial Data Throughout the Enterprise
  - Integrating GIS into the Enterprise IT Paradigm
  - Landbase Data Development Seminar (LAN-BAS)
  - Web-Enabling Spatially
  
  
• Agra Baymont (Booth 410) - Baymont is looking forward to providing an internet cafe' style booth and internet access for all conference attendees. Laptops will be available or attendees can connect with their own. The Baymont booth is designed this year for attendees to "get away" and relax during the show in a European setting while learning more about Baymont's service offerings. Baymont is a leader in location-based data services worldwide. Company representatives will be present during GITA to discuss service offerings in data conversion and maintenance, photogrammetry, systems services, environmental resource mapping, AM/FM/GIS, and secure mapping & imagery analysis through sister company Geonex Martel.
  
  
• CADTEL (Booth 1139) - This year at GITA they will be showing applications running remotely via the Internet. This solution allows them to run a FULL READ/WRITE session of SpatialENGINEER embedded in a web browser with NO application software on the client. CADTEL will also be doing this WIRELESS!!! You'll find them in booth #1139 as well as in the AutoDesk booth. The best thing to look for will be a CADTEL representative out on the show floor with a laptop in hand posting and engineering from a wireless state via the World Wide Web.
  
  
• CARIS Spatial Components (Booth 1208) - With our new web-mapping tool kit, CARIS Spatial Fusion, we will be showcasing a suite of spatial components that can be mixed and matched together to build truly-distributed, enterprise-wide decision support systems that fold neatly into any business logic and optimize an existing IT infrastructure. Visitors will see various client devices tap into remote data sources creating a real-time, distributed GIS. You can watch as pleasure yachts cruise over detailed BSB charts of San Diego Harbor; while on shore, other moving assets such police cruisers and ERVs patrol the streets over remotely rendered GIS datasets. As an added feature, we will use CARIS Spatial Fusion's OGIS Service to connect to important information such as weather maps and aerial imagery all served up by publicly available WMS-compliant map servers.
  
  
• Coherent Networks (Booth 744) - FastGate -- Advanced Gateway Software -- lets utilities speed data accurately between their current source platforms and outage management, distribution management, and virtually any Operations Support System (OSS) destination. FastGate is the first product designed to help utilities integrate any Operations Support System faster and use any OSS more efficiently. FastGate helps improve customer satisfaction, reduce operating costs, and boost bottom-line performance. Visit Coherent Networks and see this exciting new software product.
  
  
• Convergent Group (Booth 1100) - Visit Convergent Group to learn how we're working together to bring utilities worldwide the solutions and services they need to survive and thrive in today's energy market. And it's survival of the fittest in Convergent Group's booth, where you just might win a trip for two to Australia.
  
  
• Dawn Corporation (Booth 1336) - The Web GIS core engine that marked top share in Japan is coming to GITA. Dawn Corporation develops and provides innovative Web GIS core engine GeoBase to wide varieties of GIS solution vendors. GeoBase employs distributed architecture and spatial index engine that we originally designed. Number of local governments and private sectors are enjoying productive outcome that robust Web mapping applications have brought about. Visitors can fully experience the power of GeoBase through varieties of Web GIS applications.
  
  
• DeLorme (Booths 1427 & 1429) - DeLorme, the leading publisher of mapping software and atlases, will be showcasing their new XMap Geographic, a product enabling users to plot surveyed points, register scanned images, import data, draft traverses, centerlines, property surveys and more, using bearings and distances over DeLorme 3-D TopoQuads(tm) data. The company will also be introducing XMap Express, a license offering that provides fleet field technicians with on-demand mapping and routing capabilities with a straightforward interface, eliminating the costly and time-consuming task of training field crews to use complex software.
  
  
• ESRI at GITA (Booth 1028) - ESRI is proud to be involved in many facets of the GITA annual conference. This year, ESRI is also pleased to present ArcGIS. A number of ESRI related conference sessions are planned.
  
  
• GE Smallworld (Booth 516) - GE Smallworld will be showcasing software targeted at telecommunications and utilities. Look for give aways, industry experts, and solution demonstrations. The GE Smallworld Users Exchange will be held March 8 following the conference. Backed by GE's strength and quality reputation, our software is used by more than 870 companies in 40 countries. Join us at Booth 516 to learn more about how to reduce costs and increase efficiency with our breakthrough Internet technology.
  
  
• Geographic Information Technology, Inc. (GeoIT) (Booth 500) - an independent consulting firm focused on providing integrated enterprise solutions for infrastructure and utility management. GeoIT is now part of KEMA Consulting, a group of companies dedicated to advancing information technology in the energy industry worldwide. Together with KEMA Consulting and its other affiliates, GeoIT offers a full range of economic, technical, and management consulting services for project implementation in the energy industry that is backed by the financial stability and depth of expertise unmatched in the industry. GeoIT brings unparalleled experience and expertise to electric, gas, water/wastewater utilities and telecommunications companies worldwide to develop and implement comprehensive and successful enterprise solutions for their business and technical operations. Visit our Booth where you can see GIS and IT applications for the utility industry in action. Stay for one of our demonstrations and be eligible to win a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver, or a Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC..
  
  
• InfoTech Enterprises, Inc., (Booth 523 – across from Smallworld) - InfoTech, of Alexandria, VA and Tucson, AZ, an ISO 9001 registered company, will be issuing several press release statements between 8:40-8:55 on March 5th; check your programs for the location. As an ERDAS business solutions provider, they will be conducting 15 minute presentations throughout the conference in the ERDAS booth (Booth 1210, 1212); stop by and hear about remote sensing applications for GIS. InfoTech representatives will discuss their implementations of GIS solutions for utilities and local governments using ESRI, GE Smallworld, Autodesk, and ERDAS applications.
  
  
• Intergraph (Booth 1440) - Intergraph's IntelliWhere Division will be exhibiting IntelliWhere and the Genie solutions. Lee Finniear, managing director of IntelliWhere will be in attendance at this year's event along with a number of Intergraph representatives.
  
  
• LizardTech (Booth 1307) - View demos of LizardTech's DjVu software-the industry leading software for producing the smallest, Web-ready format for documents. Originally developed at AT&T Labs, DjVu performs similar magic on documents as LizardTech's MrSID performs on images. Organizations can now distribute maps, multi-page, color documents at file sizes up to 1,000 times smaller than TIFF and with download times up to 100 times faster than PDF! Visitors can see a 30" x 46" 300dpi architectural drawing reduced by DjVu to just 217KB and a stunning full color NOAA nautical chart reduced by DjVu from a 437MB TIFF to just 700KB!
  
  
• MESA Solutions (Booth 300) - MESA Solutions provides consulting, systems integration and GIS-based solutions for the communications and utility industries. With more than 400 person-years experience, MESA Solutions has the expertise to insure your project's success. They specialize in systems featuring Telcordia* Network Engineer for Telecommunications applications, Miner & Miner's ArcFM Energy for electric, water and gas utilities, and ESRI's ArcGIS for GIS/AM/FM projects. Visit Booth #300 to view MESA Solutions' energy and telecommunications GIS solutions.
  
  
• Osmose® (Booths 823 & 825 ) - Osmose is a leading provider of Asset Management services for Transmission & Distribution system owners. Services include accurate FIELD INVENTORY for maintenance, joint-use, and overhead equipment, collecting rich data sets to populate GIS databases. Members from their GIS Team will be your hosts, sharing Case Studies and real-time solutions. Discover the new pole loading software, O-Calc(tm) engineered and designed to determine POLE LOAD CAPACITY and create DETAILED MODELS of your assets. Drop off your business card when you are at the booth and enter to win the smallest go anywhere GPS.
  
  
• SAFE Software - Safe Software will be having their 2nd Annual Safe User Meeting at GITA XXIV on March 6th from 6:15 - 9:PM. Don Murray and Dale Lutz will be giving an opening presentation to discuss what's coming soon from Safe and where their technology is headed. Speakers are coming from BC Hydro, GDT and Landbase along with Solutions Tables hosted by companies using the FME and SpatialDirect products. Visit Safe's booth 1111 to get a free invitation, or register directly at www.safe.com/usermeetingoverview_frame.htm
  
  
• Tadpole-Cartesia (Booth 1200) - Tadpole-Cartesia will be conducting presentations in their 'theater' of user implementations and product overviews. Also, Tadpole Cartesia's President, Graham Brown, will be speaking at the pre-conference seminar 'Successful Field Force Automation' on 3/4 at 1:30-5:30.

TDS PenMetrics (Booth 622) - TDS PenMetrics will be exhibiting our complete line of mapping and field automation software. Our SOLO CE software runs on any Windows CE or PocketPC device. SOLO CE lets you take your GIS data and Images into the field with you and allows you to collect data through the use of GPS, laser rangefinders or the touch screen. PenMetrics Fieldnotes runs on laptop and Pen computers. Fieldnotes lets you take your GIS data, images and CAD drawings into the field with you and lets you collect data through the use of GPS or the touch screen. Fieldnotes is forms-driven, allowing you to build forms from your existing databases without any programming. Make sure your company is listed here. Send Details to editor@geocomm.com