I would have thought a $1+ billion sale might have created a little more buzz, although it is getting to be commonplace these days in the world of geo technologies! I haven’t really heard much about this announcement but last week word was out from MDA (BC, Canada) that the company has executed definitive agreements for the sale of its Information Systems and Geospatial Services operations to Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) for $1.325 billion in cash. Some details… After closing of this transaction MDA will have about 1,100 employees, in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. MDA plans to use most of the proceeds from this transaction to invest in acquisitions that are aligned with its strategic plan for Information Products in the U.S., Europe, and Canada. For more see http://www.mdacorporation.com / http://www.atk.com
FYI – MDA (MacDonal DetwillerAssociates) is a very recognizable name to those of us from British Columbia and has long been recognized as a leading Geospatial Solutions provider in Canada to customers around the globe.
Archives for January 17, 2008
Zillow provides 7000+ Neighborhood boundaries via SHP format – CC license
This just in from the Zillow blog regarding free, SHP files downloads now available… The boundary lines for over 7,000 neighborhoods around the United States covering roughly 150 cities. These neighborhood shapes are now available, zipped up in the Arc Shapefile format, for anyone to download. According to Zillow’s lab, the company wants to share more than 7000 neighborhood boundaries with the community… these via SHP file format. This from zillow… ” The Zillow data team has created a database of nearly 7,000 neighborhood boundaries in the largest cities in the U.S. And we’d like to share them with you! We’re sharing these neighborhoods under a Creative Commons license to allow people to use and contribute to our growing database.” The fine print… You are free to use the files in this database in applications as long as you attribute Zillow when you use it. You may also make your own changes to the database files and distribute them, as long as you provide them under the same kind of license and give Zillow attribution. You can grab the boundaries here
Zillow providing SHP file downloads
This just in from the Zillow blog regarding free, SHP files downloads now available… The boundary lines for over 7,000 neighborhoods around the United States covering roughly 150 cities. These neighborhood shapes are now available, zipped up in the Arc Shapefile format, for anyone to download.
DWF Maps – Texas GIS data
NCTCOG’s GIS Data Clearinghouse contains high-quality digital geographic data for the North Central Texas region. Data are available free to the public for use with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) or similar data management and analysis systems. See
http://www.dfwmaps.com/clearinghouse/