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  INSPIRE Implementing Rules on Metadata

  The INSPIRE Implementing Rules on Metadata have been approved by the INSPIRE Committee. The IRs will now be sent to the European Parliament which will have one month time to comment, after which the adoption procedure will start.

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  TITAN: a p2p to share geospatial data

  Tens of new applicants among geospatial users are discovering this new web-based tool.
  The TITAN network helps geospatial business professionals and surfers to discover, view, share and retrieve contents, through a simple geospatial client, based on a 3D virtual globe and a Geospatial Istant Messenger. ERDAS TITAN is designed for those organizations and working groups who need to share geospatial or location-based contents in a single secure environment and want to benefit from real-time interaction. For Italian users, details and download are available at:

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  ERDAS Image Manager, the catalog specialist

  "Do we have these data? Where can I find them? Which is the acquisition date? How can we share them with..? how long it takes? Are they reserved data?". If you feel like your archive is in a mess and a bit frustrated, it’s time to think that this compromises the power of your investments.

  ERDAS Image Manager is the perfect solution to Discover, Describe, Catalog and Serve geospatial data inside your organization or externally. EIM is compliant with OGC, ISO 19115/19139 standards and Italian CNIPA guidelines.

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  Image Web Server 8.5

  Image Web Server (IWS) is a versatile server application, allowing massive amounts of imagery to be delivered over the Internet or intranet, and consumed in desktop, mobile, server or web applications, thanks to its ECW and JPEG2000 compression format. IWS 8.5 provides on-line image processing of images, transforms and mosaics and enables to the configuration of ArcXML services with the management of maps reprojection "on-the-fly". Users can now automatically receive scale dependent images from OGC compliant WMS, specific to their view. To download IWS 8.5 go to:

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  Free ECW JPEG2000 Plug-in Update

  ERDAS Inc. has released ArcGIS 8.x and 9.x ECW JPEG 2000 Plug-in 4.1. This updated plug-in provides seamless interoperability with ArcGIS desktop products and the ECWP high-performance streaming imagery protocol.

  The ECWP protocol allows users to access massive amounts of image data (1000s of gigabytes or more) easily over the internet or intranet.

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