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Product Update The applications of Intermap's contour datasets, like the company's other products, are nearly limitless: precisely locating infrastructure such as roads and bridges, locating water supply and distribution systems, and planning and designing dams, reservoirs and transmission lines. Partner Profile G-VR Limited, an Intermap Technologies partner company headquartered in London, produces three-dimensional digital models for clients in the building, civil engineering, rail, government, and private sectors. Feedback Forum Let us know what you think by answering just five easy questions. Your feedback will help us make the next issue even better.

Customer Profiles Marathon Oil Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas, and the fourth-largest U.S.-based integrated oil and gas company, includes Indonesia as part of its primary deepwater exploration program. In 2006, Marathon was awarded a 1.2 million-acre block off the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Challenge Companies with interests in Indonesia, the only member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Southeast Asia, face numerous challenges to their exploration and production efforts. Marathon needed the most up-to-date topographical information to study the onshore portion of its block. "We committed to conduct a field geological survey program onshore," said Geologist Stephen Calvert, Marathon International Petroleum Indonesia Limited, a subsidiary of Marathon. "This was the biggest exploration project conducted on the island in more than 10 years."   Customer Profile With over 270,000 acres of diverse terrain, including valleys, mountains, and desert landscapes, Tejon Ranch is the largest contiguous expanse of land under private ownership in California. Roughly 40 percent the size of Rhode Island, the ranch sits just north of Los Angeles and south of Bakersfield. Tejon Ranch Company owns the property and operates ranching and farming operations, oil production, mining, recreational activities, and limited real estate development. The Challenge Tejon Ranch Company did not have current topographical information on its 426-square-mile property, which features some fairly remote locations. "We had old 30-meter U.S. Geological Survey data," said Leah Metzger, geographic information systems (GIS) director for Tejon Ranch Company. "There have definitely been changes since those datasets were created, and we wanted more up-to-date GIS resources with higher accuracy." Specifically, the Company required enhanced, superior-quality geospatial datasets for water resource planning, agriculture management for livestock and farming, real estate development planning, natural resource planning, and cartographic visualization.  In the News Intermap Debuts Maps, Data for Magellan Handhelds July 14, 2008 - GPS World Intermap Technologies announced today that its AccuTerra topo maps with off-road points of interest for the contiguous United States and Hawaii are now available for Magellan’s Triton and eXplorist handheld GPS units. 3-D mapping firm Intermap Technologies opens in Auburn Hills for auto systems by Sven Gustafson - Oakland Business Review Thursday July 24, 2008, 5:20 AM A company whose 3-D topographical mapping technology is already being used to combat wildfires in California and assess insurance risk in flood and hurricane zones is opening a new Auburn Hills office to introduce next-generation navigation systems to the domestic automotive industry.