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Monday, October 2nd, 2006
Company Press Release
SOURCE: GEOSPAN Corporate Offices
GEOSPAN SELECTED FOR CITY OF CALGARY PROPERTY IMAGERY PROJECT
Minneapolis, MN – October 2 - GEOSPAN Corporation, announced today that they have been selected by the City of Calgary for the collection of GEOVISTA™ oblique aerial imagery.
The City of Calgary completed an RFP process for the collection of street level and aerial oblique imagery for 400,000 properties located along 4,000 kilometers of roads throughout the 722 square kilometer City limits. The multi-year project provides for cross-departmental access to the imagery through ESRI GIS software. The City will also market this imagery to the private sector through their public portal calgaryonlinestore,com. GEOSPAN Director of Business Development, Steven Gilkey stated, “we feel that earning the business of one of the most GIS advanced large government entities is a strong testimonial to the spatial accuracy inherent in all of our imagery collection methods”.
About GEOSPAN
GEOSPAN has been pioneering the use of spatially accurate imagery for local government applications since 1990. GEOSPAN’s patented technology offers fully integrated industry leading 360º oblique aerial and street-level high-resolution GEOVISTA imagery with a high level of GPS location accuracy. GEOSPAN supports a variety of state and local government GIS applications including E9-1-1, emergency management, homeland security, law enforcement, planning, property assessing, infrastructure inventory, pavement analysis, risk management, insurance claims, real estate sales, and transportation
About The City of Calgary
The City of Calgary represents the third largest city in Canada with a population of 1,000,000. The City area covers 722 square kilometers located: In the foothills of Alberta's Rocky Mountains.
For further information contact:
Steve Gilkey, GEOSPAN Corporation, 763-493-9320,
E-mail: gilkey@geospan.com
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