DeLorme, a long-time leader in GIS innovation, continues to make deep inroads into the North American energy sector with its XMap GIS Enterprise software. The company today announced it has sold over 10,000 XMap licenses into the oil and gas, electric, solar, and wind energy markets.

"Achieving this milestone reinforces XMap's reputation as a sensible GIS solution," said Geoffrey Ives, Director of Professional Sales at DeLorme. "North American energy managers are using DeLorme's software tools to increase productivity through GPS navigation, to provide controlled access to corporate Geodata, and to enhance safe decision-making in asset management."

Ives went on to say that XMap is rapidly gaining adherents in developing energy markets. "When deployed with a topographic land base map," he continued, "XMap is perfect for site assessment and community collaboration presentations supporting wind and solar energy proposals."

With XMap, DeLorme has staked out a position as an affordable, easy-to-use alternative to many of the highly expensive, difficult-to-master GIS packages on the market.

The XMap Enterprise GIS suite is a three-tiered solution that puts just the right level of capabilities into its intended users' hands, from field technicians to GIS administrators to top-level enterprise managers.

Along with DeLorme's award winning topographic and street base-map, XMap provides a wide range of GIS capabilities, including:

* Affordable, easy-to-use mobile access to enterprise GIS data sources in a number of data formats
* Support for a wide variety of data formats including ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo and AutoCAD
* Support for ESRI ArcSDE
* MrSID and GeoTIFF imagery support
* Access to corporate libraries of aerial photographs while in the field
* Extensive GPS navigation and routing tools
* Pipeline stationing visualization and querying
* API third-party application integration for One Call and Work-Order automation
* Site assessments in support of Wind Energy, Pipeline route, and accessibility planning
* GIS database management, synchronization, and redlining

XMap provides energy industry field technicians with easy access to corporate infrastructure and asset data overlaid on aerial and topographic maps, plus the latest in GPS navigation tools, including DeLorme's Earthmate GPS PN-20 for mobile access to enterprise data.

ABOUT DELORME

Located in Yarmouth, Maine, DeLorme is the longtime leader in innovative mapping and GPS solutions for both consumer and professional markets. DeLorme digital products are rooted in the XMap development platform, which is scalable for future growth and endorsed by millions of dedicated digital mapping software users worldwide. The DeLorme business model transforms innovative technologies into affordable and easy-to-use navigation and mapping products supporting users in the Wind Energy, Oil and Gas Transmission, Surveying, Municipal, Public Safety, and Insurance markets. For more information, visit www.xmap.com.

Wed Jan 16 09:08:00 CST 2008