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Monday, July 31st, 2006
Company Press Release
SOURCE: GEOSPAN Corporate Offices
GEOSPAN COMPLETES STREET LEVEL IMAGING FOR THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION (RTC) OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
Minneapolis, MN – July 31 - GEOSPAN Corporation, announced today that it has completed the implementation of GEOVISTA® street-level imagery of the major roads in the greater Las Vegas area.
The RTC is utilizing the imagery to help in manage one of the fastest growing transportation networks in the US. All of the imagery is accessible to multiple government entities through a web based ArcIMS implementation along with limited public access to promote the bike trail network. Training was completed for approximately 100 RTC, Nevada DOT, Clark County, City of Las Vegas and several other communities where imagery was collected. The project also included the successful building of GIS layers representing traffic signal and median locations from the imagery.
Jerry Duke, the RTC Project Manager commented “Having contracted for mobile mapping services from a different vendor in the past, we have a strong appreciation of the amount of visual detail that GEOVISTA imagery brings to the desktop. The multiple year contract enables us to keep the imagery current as an increasing number of users continue to gain efficiencies in utilizing this powerful tool.”
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 Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) Of Southern Nevada
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, or RTC, is a regional government agency that performs many transportation activities within the Southern Nevada community. The RTC was created in 1965 by state statute and in 1981; the agency was named the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Las Vegas Urban Area.
For further information contact:
Steve Gilkey, GEOSPAN Corporation, 763-493-9320,
E-mail: gilkey@geospan.com
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