In lieu of sending Christmas cards this year GeoSolutions Consulting has made a donation to the Christmas Exchange of Ottawa. The Christmas Exchange is a voluntary organization that has been delivering food and hope to less fortunate families since 1914.

GeoSolutions will be hosting workshops featuring Direct IT Canada products in the new year. LandInfo on January 31, 2002 and Maintain on February 1, 2002 at our offices located at 575 West Hunt Club Road, in Ottawa, Ontario. Admission is FREE. If you would like to attend, please contact Alex Diamantopoulos (613 727-7563 ext 402).

GeoSolutions Consulting is an Authorized Distributor and system integrator for both Direct IT LandInfo and Maintain.

Direct IT Maintain is a comprehensive Work Management System for Local Government Programs and Services. This product is targeted for the Public Works audience who manage: roads, sewers, water, cable, electrical and gas resources.

Direct IT LandInfo is a land information management tool that is tailored for planning-related activities in Ontario. LandInfo can store property and permit details in an organized manner for easy reference and report generation. The tracking features ensure that all steps in the issuing of permits are logged.

Visit our website for more information on DirectIT Canada products.

Spatial News Cool Site of The Week!

In case you missed it, GeoSolutions Consulting's 3D visualization page was featured as the Spatial News' Cool site of the Week!

Cool Site of The Week GeoSolutions (www.geosolutions.com/projects/3d_flash.htm) - GeoSolutions Consulting has recently enhanced its 3D visualization web site by adding some nifty 3D Modelling and Visualization of Landslides and Glacial Events. This includes a Flash presentation of a 3D image being created by overlaying the DEM over a contour map.

The Spatial News 'Cool site of the week' appears in the web's most popular daily GIS, and Location-Based Services (LBS) industry news wire. It is sent to more than 23,000 GIS/LBS professionals worldwide.

To learn more about our spatial web development services, please contact Amy Gilliland.

GeoSolutions Consulting Inc. and TELUS Geomatics are forming a strategic alliance to combine their expertise in geographical information system (GIS) services and use of the Web to deliver web-based GIS applications. GeoSolutions will distribute and service TELUS Geomatics applications throughout Ontario. Municipalities will benefit most from the benefits of these applications provide for infrastructure management, data maintenance and licensing, permitting and property assessment services.

GeoSolutions Consulting and TELUS Geomatics can provide you with customized hosting solutions at highly competitive prices. TELUS' two primary services include, GeoLINC, a web-based GIS service providing legal land parcel lookup service, and GeoExplorer, an all-in-one customizable tool designed for managing your data and performing spatial analysis.

TELUS GeoExplorer is an easy-to-use web based GIS solution the enables municipalities to access and utilize their municipal GIS data without the headaches and infrastructure required to operate the applications themselves. GeoExplorer is more than another web mapping data browser. It provides applications tailored to specific business needs that include infrastructure management, permitting, notification and emergency response among other common applications.

For more information about this new agreement or to inquire about these services, please contact Dave Branson (613 727-7563 ext 401)

GeoSolutions Consulting is working with the City of Ottawa as part of a multidisciplinary project team to conduct a study to develop a long-term environmental strategy to protect, enhance and restore environmental quality to the Carp River watershed.

Information derived from the watershed/sub-watershed plan will ultimately be incorporated into planning documents as the basis of environmentally conscious land use designations and development policies.

The project team has met with the public and project sponsors. The first meeting in May 2001 focused on the current state of the watershed. A second public meeting in November examined recommendations on how to mitigate present and future problems. These recommendations will assist in the development of remedial actions or pilot projects. The Next meeting will explore methods to implement specific corrective actions.

For more information about the Carp River Watershed Study, read the case study on our website.

Visit mapinfo.geosolutions.com/promotions/holidaypackages.htm for more details on our special holiday pricing.

This is an incremental patch that will update MapInfo Professional v6.5 to MapInfo Professional 6.5.0.3100.

This patch includes and supersedes the previously available patches v6.5.0.1908 and v6.5.0.1909. You can safely install this patch even if you have not already downloaded and installed the v6.5.0.1908 patch and/or the v6.5.0.1909 patch.

GeoSolutions Consulting and KingsBridge Systems have teamed up to provide Radio Frequency planning and GIS support to users of the Marconi deciBel Planner software. KingsBridge Systems specializes in helping RF Engineers utilize dBP to its fullest extent and GeoSolutions Consulting assists with data processing and integration with web applications such as MapXtreme.

deciBel Planner is the complete wireless network design solution. Fully integrated with MapInfo Professional, Marconi's deciBel Planner interfaces with spatially-enabled databases to deliver...

• modeling of radio frequency propagation
• analysis of multi-transmitter communication networks
• comparisons of propagation results to field tests
• selection of transmission tower locations
• distribution of critical geographical information to marketing, customer care, and strategic planning departments

Together, GeoSolutions Consulting and KingsBridge Systems can assist in sourcing data, consulting on system development and purchasing software.

For more information, please contact Tim Albert