alta4 Geoinformatik AG

From now on, alta4 is one out of 4 ESRI Gold Partners of the ESRI Deutschland GmbH. With the Gold-Partnership, alta4 shows the broad range of competencies in terms of GIS and ESRI Software know-how. In order to be eligible for the Gold-Partner network, ESRI Deutschland GmbH and ESRI Inc. rate possible candidates based on certain criteria. High customer satisfaction, broad market reach, kind and numer of solutions provided based on ESRI software, as well as the number of employees involved in the companies overall ESRI business activities.

As a part of the ESRI Gold-Partner network, alta4 will support the international cooperation of ESRI partners with capatious knowledge to serve specific industries will suitable solutions.

With a network containing 17 distributors all over europe, alta4 already positioned itself in the first row of GIS businesses regarding location based solutions. With a shared business plan for the upcoming busisness year, alta4 will foster the strategic partnership with ESRI to an international business environment and therefore support growth of the european GIS sector.

Radroutenplaner Schleswig-Holstein

With more than 15.000km of bike routes, tourists are now able to plan individual track in a Google-like userinterface. Trips can be planned between 2.500 different Points of Interst, including hotels, activities, events, beaches, theme routes or any point visible on the map.
„Our developer-team managed to create this routing tool within a few weeks, that now sets the standards in the german bike-routing segment“ Ole Seidel, CEO of alta4.
The online-bike-routing portal offers different options of routing. The user can choose between the desired speed, what mainly has an effect on the duration of the complete track, or can choose to avoid greater uphill grades what increases the comfort of travelling. For the first time weather forecast are also part of the routing-tool, what makes planning even more comfortable, by knowing exactly what to expect when going on the planned bike-trip.

Besides common features like calculating the actual length and duration of the trip, new features like the export of GPS data in several formats like GPX,KML or OVL are now available. There also has been a great focus on sharing within communities. Therefore Facebook, Twitter, Email and PDF export funktions help sharing planned routes with friends and family within a few simple clicks.
The printer friendly PDF gives an overview of the planned track, including all relevant data, like theme-routes that are part of the planned bike-route, total distance, duration and number and address of stops. An iPhone app is planned for summer 2011, which will enable mobile routing for tourists.

Links:

Radroutenplaner Schleswig-Holstein: http://www.sh-radroutenplaner.de

Tourismus-Agentur Schleswig-Holstein: http://www.sh-tourismus.de/de/information

alta4 Geoinformatik AG: http://www.alta4.com

For the 7th Esri-Conference in Tokio, Christop Kany(alta4) travelled to Japan. Together with Harrison Tajima, alta4 showed the latest imaging software-solution for more than 1500 GIS users. In Midtown Tokia, alta4 showed itself as a innovater in terms of GIS-imagery software-solutions. Visitors came to see the latest product “Photomapper Desktop 10″ that has been released just recently. Its Drag&Drop functionality and PDF export from GIS systems brings great workflow imporvements when working with images and GIS.

From now on, Ricoh Japan will also be able to bundle the Ricoh G700SE with alta4 software solutions for the Asian-Pacific market.

From now on PhotoMapper Desktop 10, the perfect Photo Asset Management solution is available for ArcGIS 10.
With PhotoMapper Desktop 10 you can search and import available Photo-Databases to your GIS-Layers within just a few mouse clicks. Already created Photo databases can be searched automatically and be integrated in your personal GI-System.

PhotoMapper Desktop 10 offers a broad range of additional functions to increase the efficiency of any Photo Management within ArcGIS. Therefore it does not matter if GPS information is already available in the photo’s Exif-Header or not. If not, with the simple Drag&Drop functionality, photos can dragged to their map-location of origin to add necessary GPS coordinates to the photo’s Exif information.

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A patch for ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available which addresses several critical issues including the most frequently occurring error reports. We recommend customers using ArcGIS 9.3.1 Service Pack 2 download and install this patch at as soon as possible.

This includes users of:

• ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView, and ArcReader)
• ArcGIS Engine
• ArcGIS Server

See all solved issues and donload the latest patch here.