From newsletter@spatialnews.com Sun Sep 29 12:29:12 2002 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:27:26 -0500 CDT From: SpatialNewsTo: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in Subject: SpatialNews Daily NewsWire 08/13/02 - Leica, Intergraph, Motorola in the news [ Part 1, Text/PLAIN 4 lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] If you have trouble viewing the newsletter, please connect your browser to: http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/dailynews/2002/aug/13/newsfeed.html The GeoCommunity - SpatialNews Daily NewsWire [oasisi.php?s=98&w=468&h=60] Tuesday August 13, Published by ThinkBurst Media, Inc. [ GIS Discussion | GeoImaging | GeoBids RFPs | GIS Jobs | GeoCommunity Account ] ________________________________________________________________________________ * Sponsored by Bentley Systems Inc. * Now Available! MicroStation Descartes V8. 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