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Autodesk, Inc., the world’s leader in 2D and 3D design software for the utilities, government, manufacturing, building and construction, and media and entertainment markets, has donated an open source Feature Data Object (FDO) Provider for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The new FDO Provider will allow customers to access and manipulate location and design within Microsoft SQL Server 2008. FDO is included with AutoCAD Map 3D, Autodesk MapGuide, and Autodesk Topobase.

AWhere, Inc, is a full-service consulting organization, providing location intelligence software and services using their AWhere mapping software. The geospatial software queries the SQL Server engine and then parses the results on a map. Data from other sources can be added to the map, as well as Virtual Earth™ imagery. Through data visualization, organizations better understand performance, discover trends, uncover opportunities, make better, faster decisions, and in the end, save money.

BCS, a scientific computing company providing spatial software solutions since 1978, has developed GiSTXten for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. GiST (Generalized Search Tree) indexes generalize B-trees and R-trees, and are extensible both in the data types supported and the queries that can be applied to the data. Using GiSTXten for GiST index development greatly simplifies the implementation of these complex indexes and provides a mechanism for powerful and flexible database searches using these indexes.

Cadcorp is a leading U.K. developer of digital mapping and GIS software. With offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, Cadcorp's distribution and VAR network stretches worldwide.

Cadcorp plays a pivotal technical role in the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC®), and the Cadcorp SIS - Spatial Information System product family is OGC-certified compliant for several specifications. Cadcorp SIS applications exist in local government, emergency services, insurance, natural resources, surveying, commercial, and many other markets.

Digital Map Products, Inc (DMP), is a spatial technology company focused on creating robust applications that embed GIS to enhance the productivity of organizations’ non-technical users. DMP’s SaaS spatial platform facilitates the streamlined development of workflow-specific applications leveraging GIS capabilities and spatial data. LandVision™ and CityGIS™, embedded-GIS solutions for real estate and local government, offer an ideal means to spatially enable organizations, particularly when used in conjunction with SQL Server 2008.

With annual sales of more than $660 million, ESRI remains the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) software industry. The company's business involves the development and support of GIS software for all types of organizations. ESRI is the only GIS vendor to provide a complete suite of geospatial software solutions that can work as clients to the SQL spatial extensions to SQL Server 2008. The ESRI ArcGIS suite of products includes solutions for server, desktop, mobile, and online GIS.

IDV Solutions is a visual composite applications company that helps organizations engage their enterprise data in an interactive, easy-to-use, Web-based environment. The IDV Visual Fusion Server™ will utilize the spatial enhancements of SQL Server 2008 to provide customers powerful spatial query support within their visual composite applications. Visual Fusion Server will provide enterprises with further capabilities to consume, use, and extend spatial data sets for visualization, collaboration, and decision support.

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph's industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data into understandable visual representations and actionable intelligence. The Intergraph® GeoMedia® suite of geospatial information management and analysis products will support Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 spatial enhancements to provide Intergraph customers with an improved capacity for interoperability and information sharing.

IntraGIS Systems draws on many years of experience in the development of geospatial data viewing applications for non-specialist users. IntraGIS V6 will facilitate the integration of SQL Server layers with numerous spatial data formats, including OGC, shapefiles, tab files, and many image formats, in a simple geospatial data viewing system. IntraGIS has been designed to provide viewing and map-making capabilities to non-GIS specialists. The application can be deployed over an intranet or over the Web.

The premier geospatial product from IS Consulting (ISC), MapDotNet Server 2007, allows organizations to rapidly build Web and smart client applications to visualize, analyze, and create spatial data with SQL Server 2008. Using the MapDotNet Server Web services and the robust SDK, developers can build scalable mapping applications with Virtual Earth and Silverlight to fit into any solution. Contact ISC today to learn more about ISC developer services for MapDotNet Server, SQL Server 2008, and Virtual Earth.

Seamlessly display, analyze, edit, manipulate, program, and consume SQL Server data using thousands of point-and-click GIS capabilities. Upload maps, drawings, images, and terrain surfaces into SQL Server 2008 from over 100 different geospatial and spatial DBMS formats. Provides visual desktop, enterprise, programmatic, and Internet Map Server interfaces for SQL Server, using 64-bit, Windows Vista, and multicore processor power. Automatic re-projection to SQL Server GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY, georegistration, geocoding, multiuser editing, integrated Virtual Earth usage, and much more.

NAVTEQ is a leading provider of comprehensive digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices, Internet-based mapping applications, and government and business solutions. NAVTEQ creates the digital maps and map content that power navigation and location-based services solutions around the world. The Chicago-based company was founded in 1985 and has more than 3,300 employees located in 164 offices and in 32 countries.

Pitney Bowes MapInfo is the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, integrating software, data, and services to provide greater value and more insightful decisions from location-based information. The next release of MapInfo Professional® will enable customers to access, display, and analyze Microsoft SQL Server 2008 spatial data directly to make better informed decisions. Pitney Bowes MapInfo will offer SQL Server 2008 spatial support for its suite of location intelligence and data enrichment solutions.

With FME, a powerful spatial ETL platform, you can quickly and easily read and write spatial data to SQL Server 2008. You can also use FME to translate, transform, and integrate data from/to more than 190 other CAD, GIS, raster, and database formats. Plus, SQL Server Integration Services users can access the complete set of FME spatial ETL capabilities right from within a familiar SSIS environment—no programming required.

SpatialPoint helps organizations utilize spatial information to streamline business processes and reduce costs. The company specializes in Microsoft technologies, including Virtual Earth, MapPoint, and SQL Server 2008. SpatialPoint Atlas technology enables visualization of even the most complex spatial data from SQL Server on Virtual Earth or MapPoint Web Service-based maps. SpatialPoint also offers a full range of professional services to help build applications, as well as tailoring applications for specific needs.

Spatial Tapestry's leading Spatial Adjustment and Topological Processing software improves data accuracy, analysis, and performance when location intelligence is added to mainstream business applications with Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Parcels can be adjusted to fit accurate ortho-photography or survey, and spatially dependent themes such as assets are automatically moved to fit a new landbase. The software tests and cleans zoning, statistical, and administration layers, which can be snapped to the parcel, centrelines, and other layers.

Yuri Software’s new YAddress product offers address correction, validation, standardization and geocoding. Postal addresses are verified and translated into the USPS-standard format and geospatial coordinates are assigned to the address location on the map. YAddress is distributed as a software application to be installed on a local computer and provides a very high performance in address processing. The application is accessed through a SQL Server function or through .NET programmatic interfaces.